Rachana Pradhan

About

Rachana Pradhan is a correspondent for KFF Health News, a non-profit news organization where she writes about national health policy decisions and their effect on everyday Americans. She came to KHN from Politico, where for five years she covered health care policy and politics on national and state levels. Her work includes an investigation into former HHS Secretary Tom Price’s extensive use of private jets at taxpayers’ expense, which ultimately resulted in Price’s resignation and government-wide reforms on senior officials’ use of chartered aircraft. The series was a 2018 finalist for the American Society of News Editors’ O’Brien Fellowship Award and earned an honorable mention in the White House Correspondents’ Association’s Edgar A. Poe award.Rachana’s other reporting stints include covering city government for The Daily Progress newspaper in Charlottesville, Virginia, and reporting on the implementation of the Affordable Care Act for Inside Health Policy, a health care trade publication.