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1 week ago | 
propublica.org | Mary Hudetz |Jessica Schreifels |T. Christian Miller |Duaa Eldeib
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. The director of Arizona’s embattled Medicaid agency resigned this week, just as she was expected to face questions from lawmakers about her handling of a massive fraud scheme that largely targeted Native Americans. Gov.
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1 week ago | 
propublica.org | Cassandra Jaramillo |Lizzie Presser |Jessica Schreifels |T. Christian Miller
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The Texas Senate has unanimously passed legislation that aims to prevent maternal deaths under the state’s strict abortion ban. Written in response to a ProPublica investigation last year, Senate Bill 31, called The Life of the Mother Act, represents a remarkable turn among the Republican lawmakers who were the original supporters of the ban.
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2 weeks ago | 
propublica.org | Jessica Schreifels |T. Christian Miller |Duaa Eldeib |Patricia Callahan
This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. U.S. farmers are 3.5 times more likely to die by suicide than the general population. In Utah, they die by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in the state. A federal program offering Utah farmers free therapy was so successful that it ran out of money in four months.
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3 weeks ago | 
propublica.org | Mary Hudetz |T. Christian Miller |Duaa Eldeib |Patricia Callahan
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has signed legislation increasing oversight of sober living homes, two years after state officials announced that a Medicaid fraud scheme had targeted Native Americans seeking drug and alcohol treatment.
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4 weeks ago | 
propublica.org | Patricia Callahan |T. Christian Miller |Duaa Eldeib |Sarahbeth Maney
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Glenmark Pharmaceuticals has recalled two dozen generic medicines sold to American patients because the Indian factory that made them failed to comply with U.S. manufacturing standards and the Food and Drug Administration determined that the faulty drugs could harm people, federal records show.
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1 month ago | 
propublica.org | Topher Sanders |Hannah Allam |T. Christian Miller |McKenzie Funk
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. When news broke in January that the Trump Justice Department was freezing significant work on civil rights litigation, including police reform cases, attention immediately focused on two cities: Minneapolis and Louisville, Kentucky.
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1 month ago | 
propublica.org | T. Christian Miller |Duaa Eldeib |Patricia Callahan |Sarahbeth Maney
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Blue Cross Louisiana OK’d mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay a hospital’s full bills. For some claims, it paid nothing. Blue Cross denied payments for thousands of procedures involved in breast reconstruction. But it approved special deals for treatment for executives’ wives.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
scheerpost.com | T. Christian Miller |Patrick Rucker |David Armstrong
By T. Christian Miller, Patrick Rucker and David Armstrong / ProPublica and The Capitol ForumThis article was originally published on October 23, 2024. Every day, patients across America crack open envelopes with bad news. Yet another health insurer has decided not to pay for a treatment that their doctor has recommended. Sometimes it’s a no for an MRI for a high school wrestler with a strained back. Sometimes for a cancer procedure that will help a grandmother with a throat tumor.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
cnn.com | T. Christian Miller |Patrick Rucker |David Armstrong
This story was originally published by ProPublica. It co-published with The Capitol Forum. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive its biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Every day, patients across America crack open envelopes with bad news. Yet another health insurer has decided not to pay for a treatment that their doctor has recommended. Sometimes it’s a no for an MRI for a high school wrestler with a strained back.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
fhicommunications.com | T. Christian Miller |Patrick Rucker |David Armstrong
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Series: Uncovered – How the Insurance Industry Denies Coverage to PatientsDialing for Dollars: America’s largest insurers hire EviCore to make decisions on whether to pay for care for more than 100 million people.
