About

I'm Heidi Macomber. I write practical guides that help people use public records law and understand Medicare without a law degree or an insurance license.

Everything on this site follows one rule: every number, deadline, and fee cap traces back to the statute or the agency document it came from. If a claim here cannot be sourced to a primary document, it does not run. Sources are listed at the foot of every piece.

The series

The running series on this site:

• Records Desk. State-by-state guides to public records law, each built around a real category of records as the working example. First up: New York's Freedom of Information Law and funeral firm inspection files.

Elsewhere

I also report on the deathcare industry for Obitley, where I cover funeral home regulation and enforcement across the country.

For records research inquiries, my Upwork listing carries a sample work product with a cited source log.