Phil Galewitz

Phil Galewitz, a Kaiser Health News senior correspondent, covers Medicaid, Medicare, long-term care, hospitals and various state health issues. He has covered the health beat for more than two decades. He is a former board member of the Association of Health Care Journalists. In 2004/05, he was a Kaiser Media fellow and wrote about community solutions to the uninsured. Before coming to Kaiser Health News, he was at The Palm Beach Post and was a national health industry writer for the Associated Press and The Patriot-News in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He has a bachelor’s in health planning and administration, and a master’s in public administration with an emphasis in health policy from Penn State University. Follow him on Twitter: @philgalewitz