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Secret hospital inspections may become public at last
Apr 20, 2017 | Charles Ornstein, ProPublica
The federal government has proposed requiring that accreditors release reports on the problems they find during ...
Study finds few consequences for health privacy law's repeat offenders
Jan 03, 2016 | Charles Ornstein, ProPublica, Annie Waldman, ProPublica
Well-known repeat offenders include Kaiser Permanente, U.S. Department of Veterans ...
Billionaire Mark Cuban accused of giving bad medical advice on Twitter
Apr 07, 2015 | Charles Ornstein, ProPublica
Dallas Mavericks owner says patients need more testing, even when they aren't sick, a ...
Medicare spends $4.5 billion on Hepatitis C drugs in 2014
Mar 30, 2015 | Charles Ornstein, ProPublica
Expenditures could mean higher deductibles and maximum out-of-pocket costs for many of the program's ...
Fines are few, but healthcare data breaches aren't
Mar 02, 2015 | Charles Ornstein, ProPublica
Federal overseers have seldom penalized the healthcare organizations responsible for safeguarding this data, ...
Mar 07, 2014 | Charles Ornstein, ProPublica
Some of the nation's largest pharmaceutical companies have slashed payments to health professionals for promotional ...
Dec 18, 2013 | Charles Ornstein, ProPublica
In a major departure from industry practice, GlaxoSmithKline, the sixth-largest global drug maker, ...