Noam Levey

Senior Correspondent, KFF Health News

Noam N. Levey is a Washington, D.C.,-based senior correspondent for KFF Health News, where he is currently producing “Diagnosis:Debt,” a multi-part project on medical debt in the U.S. in collaboration withNPR and CBS News. Noam joined KFF Health News in 2021 after 17 years at the LosAngeles Times, the last 12 as the paper’s national healthcare reporter based in Washington. He has reported on healthcare issues from more than three dozen states and four continents and won numerous honors, including a Loeb award and two NIHCM awards, one in 2020 for his series “Inside America’s High-DeductibleRevolution” and one in 2023 for “Diagnosis: Debt.” Noam has also been published in Health Affairs, JAMA and Milbank Quarterly. He started his career at newspapers in Duluth, Minn., Montgomery, Ala., and the United Arab Emirates. Prior to theLA Times, Noam was an investigative reporter for the San Jose Mercury News.Noam has a degree in History and Near Eastern Studies from PrincetonUniversity.