ProPublica We Found Over 700 Doctors Who Were Paid More Than a Million Dollars by Drug and Medical Device Companiespropublica.org - ProPublica ProPublica has been tracking drug company spending on doctors since 2010. We just updated our database and found that companies are still paying …
ProPublica Dollars for Docspropublica.org - Mike Tigas, Ryann Grochowski Jones, Charles Ornstein, Lena Groeger, ProPublica
ProPublica Mississippi Takes Steps to End Damning Delays in Evaluating Criminal Defendantspropublica.org - ProPublica Those accused of crimes in Mississippi spent years in jail awaiting the most basic kind of psychiatric evaluations. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom …
ProPublica Doctor Who Advocated “Unethical” Care of Vegetative Patient Is Placed on Leavepropublica.org - ProPublica Newark Beth Israel acted after our report that its transplant program kept a patient alive to improve its metrics, while barely consulting his family. …
ProPublica Feds to Investigate Hospital Alleged to Have Kept Vegetative Patient Alive to Game Transplant Survival Ratespropublica.org - ProPublica Spurred by a ProPublica investigation, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will also carry out an inquiry. ProPublica is a nonprofit …
ProPublica Pharmaceutical Companies Are Luring Mexicans Across the U.S. Border to Donate Blood Plasmapropublica.org - ProPublica Companies offer high payments and bring-a-friend bonuses to Mexicans who cross the border on temporary visas to donate blood plasma. The U.S. offers …
ProPublica “It’s Very Unethical”: Audio Shows Hospital Kept Vegetative Patient on Life Support to Boost Survival Ratespropublica.org - ProPublica Darryl Young suffered brain damage during a heart transplant at Newark Beth Israel and never woke up. But, hardly consulting his family, doctors kept …
ProPublica They’re Retired. They’re Insured. The Government Pays for It. And Trump Loves It.propublica.org - ProPublica Trump talks Medicare in a retirement enclave where doctors are a golf-cart ride away. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of …
ProPublica We Reported on a Nonprofit Hospital System That Sues Poor Patients. It Just Freed Thousands From Debt.propublica.org - ProPublica After an investigation by MLK50 and ProPublica, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare is erasing debt for unpaid hospital bills owed by more than 6,500 …
ProPublica Millions of Americans’ Medical Images and Data Are Available on the Internet. Anyone Can Take a Peek.propublica.org - ProPublica Hundreds of computer servers worldwide that store patient X-rays and MRIs are so insecure that anyone with a web browser or a few lines of computer …
ProPublica Thousands of Poor Patients Face Lawsuits From Nonprofit Hospitals That Trap Them in Debtpropublica.org - ProPublica Across the country, low-income patients are overcoming stigmas surrounding poverty to speak out about nonprofit hospitals that sue them. Federal …
ProPublica We Asked Prosecutors if Health Insurance Companies Care About Fraud. They Laughed at Us.propublica.org - ProPublica To protect their networks and bottom lines, health insurers don’t aggressively pursue widespread fraud, making it easy for scammers. Then they pass …
ProPublica How to Make Health Insurers Take Fraud Seriouslypropublica.org - ProPublica Experts say both employers and working Americans end up paying more when health insurance companies don’t report fraud to regulators and …
ProPublica Watch Richard Sackler Deny His Family’s Role in the Opioid Crisispropublica.org - ProPublica Sackler testified in 2015 in a lawsuit brought by Kentucky against his family’s company, Purdue Pharma, which makes the painkiller OxyContin. We …
ProPublica In Men, It’s Parkinson’s. In Women, It’s Hysteria.propublica.org - ProPublica Neurologist Laura Boylan suffered from tremors and loss of balance that she attributed to a cyst in her brain. Why didn’t her doctors believe …
ProPublica Senators Call for Closing “Loopholes” That Make Health Care Fraud Easypropublica.org - ProPublica In response to a story by ProPublica and Vox that detailed how a Texas personal trainer was able to bilk private insurers for millions, six …
ProPublicaAre Trump’s Top Medicaid Regulators Ignoring Major Problems? Insurance Giant’s Tense Meeting With a Senator Adds to Growingpropublica.org - ProPublica The CEO of Centene, a company now entangled in a broader federal inquiry, met with Sen. Bob Casey to allay concerns that patients are being neglected. …
ProPublica “Humbled”: Nonprofit Christian Hospital Dials Back Aggressive Debt Collection and Raises Wages After Our Investigationpropublica.org - ProPublica MLK50 and ProPublica found that Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare sued thousands of low-income patients, including dozens of its own employees, over …
ProPublica Stop Suing Patients, Advocates Advise Memphis Nonprofit Hospital Systempropublica.org - ProPublica Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare promised a 30-day review of its collection policy after MLK50 and ProPublica found it sued thousands of low-income …
ProPublica Health Insurers Make It Easy for Scammers to Steal Millions. Who Pays? You.propublica.org - ProPublica Health insurers are regarded as fierce defenders of health care dollars. But the case of David Williams shows one reason America’s health care costs …
ProPublica What Can Be Done Right Now to Stop a Basic Source of Health Care Fraudpropublica.org - ProPublica Fraud is one reason we all pay so much for health care. But there are simple fixes that would make it more difficult for scammers to …
ProPublica Millionaire CEO of Nonprofit Hospital That Sues the Poor Promises Review of Policiespropublica.org - ProPublica Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare promised a policy review after an investigation by MLK50 and ProPublica found it had sued 8,300 patients — including …
ProPublica Have You Been Sued by a Hospital, Doctor or Other Memphis Institution? Tell Us About It.propublica.org - ProPublica ProPublica and MLK50 are spending the year investigating the institutions that profit from people who are poor in Memphis. Share your story with …
ProPublica Low-Wage Workers Are Being Sued for Unpaid Medical Bills by a Nonprofit Christian Hospital That Employs Thempropublica.org - ProPublica Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare has sued many of its own employees over unpaid medical bills and garnishes their wages; its health care plan prevents …
ProPublica The Nonprofit Hospital That Makes Millions, Owns a Collection Agency and Relentlessly Sues the Poorpropublica.org - ProPublica Nonprofit hospitals pay virtually no local, state or federal income tax. In return, they provide community benefits, including charity care to …
ProPublica After Serious 911 Mishaps, Rhode Island Will Now Pay for Better Trainingpropublica.org - ProPublica Lagging rates of cardiac arrest survival and bystander CPR in Rhode Island could soon improve if lawmakers approve a budget allocating $220,000 to …
ProPublica One Cardiac Arrest. Four 911 Callers. And a Tragic Outcome.propublica.org - ProPublica Rhode Island’s 911 operators are unprepared to handle cardiac arrest calls, and Rena Fleury, 45, lost her life. This article was produced in …
ProPublica Citing “Safety Concerns,” FDA Cautions National Marketer of Unproven Stem Cell Treatmentspropublica.org - ProPublica This month, we reported R3 Stem Cell was promoting unapproved birth tissue products for a wide range of diseases. This week, the FDA put the company …
