WFAA senior investigative reporter Byron Harris and his team received an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for a two-year-long investigation exposing hundreds of millions of dollars in questionable spending on Medicaid dental care.
Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism announced 14 silver baton awards Wednesday, with other honors also going to ESPN, The Center for Investigative Reporting, NBC and CBS news, among others. The duPont is considered the broadcast equivalent of print journalism’s Pulitzer Prize, which is also awarded by Columbia University.
Below is what Columbia wrote about the series:
"WFAA’s reporting, “Denticaid: Medicaid Dental Abuse in Texas,” focused on rampant overbilling by dentists targeting children and families receiving Medicaid. One clinic, WFAA found, solicited minors off the streets of Dallas using cash and other incentives and performed extensive and often harmful dental work on them –- all without their parents’ permission. Read More : Dupont (DD)
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