Noam Levey is a senior correspondent for Kaiser Health News and is the lead investigator into “Diagnosis: Debt;” a reporting partnership between KHN and NPR exploring the scale, impact, and causes of medical debt in America. He previously worked 17 years at the Los Angeles Times, the last 12 as the paper’s national health care reporter based in Washington, D.C. Noam has reported on health care issues from more than three dozen states and four continents.