Rachana Pradhan, correspondent, reports on an array of national health policy issues and their effects on everyday Americans. She came to KFF Health News from Politico, where for five years she covered health care policy and politics. Rachana reported on former HHS Secretary Tom Price’s extensive use of private jets at taxpayers’ expense. The investigation, which resulted in Price’s resignation, was a 2018 finalist for the American Society of News Editors’ O’Brien Fellowship Award and earned an honorable mention for the White House Correspondents’ Association’s Edgar A. Poe award. Rachana also covered the implementation of the Affordable Care Act for Inside Health Policy, a health care trade publication. She graduated from James Madison University.