The Scoop

Joe Rojas-Burke of the Oregonian used state records to find that a program to help pay for doctors in rural areas “is sending millions of dollars to specialists in places where doctors abound and residents have a choice of hospitals. Of more than 1,100 doctors who met the criteria to qualify for support in the program’s first two years, fewer than 200 worked in communities with serious unmet medical needs, as defined by the state’s Office of Rural Health. More than 200 recipients worked in cities or suburbs within 15 miles of two or more hospitals.”