The Cost of a Cure: Medicare Spent $4.5 Billion on New Hepatitis C Drugs Last Year
by Charles Ornstein ProPublica, March 29, 2015, 10 p.m. This story was co-published with the...
Read Moreby Charles Ornstein ProPublica, March 29, 2015, 10 p.m. This story was co-published with the...
Read Moreby Charles Ornstein ProPublica, May 29, 2014, 12:01 a.m.Medicare spent $6.7 billion too much for...
Read MoreCenters for Medicare and Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is treading carefully, refusing to get pinned down by numerical thresholds
Read MoreMedicare plans to arm itself with broad new powers to better control — and potentially ban — doctors engaged in fraudulent or harmful prescribing
Read MoreSiphoning billions of Medicare dollars, for-profit hospice companies found recruiting non-dying patients
Read MoreSomeone stole his identity while he worked at a strip-mall clinic in Hollywood, Calif., then forged his signature on prescriptions for $6.4 M in drugs
Read Morereporters who have long investigated health care and exposed frightening variations in quality, we wondered why so much secrecy shrouds the prescribing habits of doctors.
Read MoreMore than 700 doctors nationwide wrote prescriptions for elderly and disabled patients in highly questionable and potentially harmful ways
Read MoreAn analysis of four years of Medicare prescription records shows that some doctors and other health professionals across the country prescribe large quantities of drugs that are potentially harmful, disorienting or addictive
Read MoreWashington policy debates are chock full of rich people telling poor and middle-class people that they will have to tighten their belts. In fact, in the crazy upside down world of Washington this passes for “courage.” Cutting...
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