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Do You Have Insights Into Health Insurance Denials? Help Us Report on the System.
Insurers deny tens of millions of claims every year. ProPublica is investigating why claims are denied, what the consequences are for patients and how the appeal process really works. → Read More
St. Jude Stashed Away $886 Million in Unspent Revenue Last Year
New documents show that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital’s reserves grew to $7.6 billion, as other children's cancer nonprofits struggled to raise cash. → Read More
St. Jude Hoards Billions While Many of Its Families Drain Their Savings
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital promises not to bill families. But the cost of having a child at the hospital for cancer care leaves some families so strapped for money that parents share tips on spending nights in the parking lot. → Read More
Dying on the Waitlist
In Los Angeles County and around the country, doctors have had to decide who gets a lifesaving COVID-19 treatment and who doesn’t. → Read More
States With Few Coronavirus Restrictions Are Spreading the Virus Beyond Their Borders —
Lax states are attracting shoppers and students from stricter neighbors — and sending back COVID-19 cases. The imbalance underscores the lack of a national policy. → Read More
COVID-19 Put Her Husband in the ICU. She Had to Be Hospitalized Next.…
When Laura Whalen went to a hospital with COVID-19, she brought her kids. Her husband was already in an ICU, and she couldn’t risk them exposing their grandma. But the state told her to find someone to take them or it would. → Read More
Doctors hoard unproven Covid-19 meds by writing prescriptions for selves, families
Pharmacists seeing fraudulent activity with unproven drugs endorsed by President Trump. → Read More
The Trump Administration Drove Him Back to China, Where He Invented a Fast Coronavirus Test —
A federal crackdown on professors’ undisclosed outside activities is achieving what China has long struggled to do: spur Chinese scientists to return home. In this crisis, it’s costing the U.S. intellectual firepower. → Read More
Dollars for Profs
For the first time ever, you can see conflict of interest and financial disclosure records for employees of universities across the country. → Read More
In never-before-seen video, Richard Sackler defends Purdue
The Sackler family is rarely photographed, and less frequently seen on videos. Now ProPublica has obtained video of Richard Sackler's deposition. → Read More
Watch Richard Sackler Deny His Family’s Role in the Opioid Crisis —
Sackler testified in 2015 in a lawsuit brought by Kentucky against his family’s company, Purdue Pharma, which makes the painkiller OxyContin. We published the transcript in February. Now you can see the video. → Read More
In Men, It’s Parkinson’s. In Women, It’s Hysteria. —
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 her? → Read More
Boston hospital reports disciplining of renowned child abuse skeptic
Boston Medical Center has notified the Massachusetts medical board that it has restricted the work of a world-renowned endocrinologist criticized for espousing controversial theories as an expert witness for people accused of child abuse. → Read More
Deposition: Sackler embraced plan to conceal OxyContin’s strength
The sealed deposition of Dr. Richard Sackler, whose family controls Purdue Pharma, shows that he endorsed a decision to conceal OxyContin's strength from doctors. → Read More
Sackler Embraced Plan to Conceal OxyContin’s Strength From Doctors, Sealed Testimony Shows —
As OxyContin addiction spurred a national nightmare, a member of the family that has reaped billions of dollars from the painkiller boasted that sales exceeded his “fondest dreams,” according to a secret court document obtained by ProPublica. → Read More
Document: Facing blame for seeding the opioid crisis, Purdue explored its next profit opportunity — treating addiction
Purdue Pharma executives, urged on by a member of the billionaire Sackler family that controls the company, discussed expanding into the addiction-treatment business. → Read More
Purdue’s secret OxyContin papers should be released, appeals court rules
A Kentucky appeals court sided with STAT, upholding a judge’s ruling ordering the release of Purdue Pharma records about the marketing of the opioid OxyContin. → Read More
Appeals court rules that secret OxyContin documents must be released
A Kentucky appeals court side with STAT, upholding a ruling ordering the release of Purdue Pharma records about the marketing of the opioid OxyContin. → Read More
The Child Abuse Contrarian —
Michael Holick, a renowned scientist turned expert witness, relies on his own controversial theory to help alleged abusers avoid prison and regain custody of the babies they were accused of harming. → Read More
Sacklers Who Disavow OxyContin May Have Benefited From It —
A little-known court document sheds light on the family feud over the multibillion-dollar painkiller’s association with the opioid crisis. → Read More