Maya Miller
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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
A mining company buys out homeowners to avoid full cleanup
Time and again, a mining company promised to clean up uranium waste in New Mexico. Now it wants to buy out residents and avoid full cleanup. → Read More
When Home Is a Toxic Hot Spot
More than a thousand people talked to ProPublica about living in hot spots for cancer-causing air pollution. Most never got a warning from the EPA. They are rallying neighbors, packing civic meetings and signing petitions for reform. → Read More
Do You Live Near an Industrial Facility? Help Us Investigate.
Industrial facilities release toxic air pollution that can elevate estimated cancer risk for surrounding neighborhoods. If you live in or work near a hot spot, we’d like to hear from you. Fill out our form below. → Read More
Poison in the Air
The EPA allows polluters to turn neighborhoods into “sacrifice zones” where residents breathe carcinogens. ProPublica reveals where these places are in a first-of-its-kind map and data analysis. → Read More
The Smoke Comes Every Year. Sugar Companies Say the Air Is Safe.
To harvest more than half of America’s cane sugar, billion-dollar companies set fire to fields, a money-saving practice that’s being banned by other countries. Some residents say they struggle to breathe, so we started tracking air quality. → Read More
When Falling Behind on Rent Leads to Jail Time —
Evictions in Arkansas can snowball from criminal charges to arrests to jail time because of a 119-year-old law that mostly impacts female, Black and low-income renters. Even prosecutors have called it unconstitutional. → Read More
Rationing Protective Gear Means Checking on Coronavirus Patients Less Often. This Can Be Deadly. —
Low on essential supplies and fearing they’ll get sick, doctors and nurses told ProPublica in-person care for coronavirus patients has been scaled back. In some cases, it’s causing serious harm. → Read More
Are You in Coronavirus Quarantine? Tell Us What Authorities Told You So We Can Make Sure It’s Right. —
We’re collecting and fact-checking instructions state and local health departments have given about coronavirus quarantines. Help us hear from every state and city. → Read More
We Want to Talk to People Working or Living on the Front Lines of the Coronavirus. Help Us Report. —
Are you a public health worker, medical provider, elected official, patient or other COVID-19 expert? We’re looking for information and sources. Help make sure our journalism is responsible and focused on the right issues. → Read More
We Want to Talk to People Working or Living on the Front Lines of Coronavirus. Help Us Report. —
Are you a public health worker, medical provider, elected official, patient or other COVID-19 expert? We’re looking for information and sources. Help make sure our journalism is responsible and focused on the right issues. → Read More
Help Us Understand How the Cost of Diabetes Care Is Threatening Lives —
ProPublica wants to hear about problems accessing care for Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, and the consequences. Share your story with us. → Read More
Our Journalists Stopped Calling People Hard-to-Reach and Listened to Them. Here’s What Worked. —
We researched why people were reluctant to talk about medical debt, and designed an outreach strategy based on what we learned. → Read More
This Doctors Group Is Owned by a Private Equity Firm and Repeatedly Sued the Poor Until We Called Them —
After the Blackstone Group acquired one of the nation’s largest physician staffing firms in 2017, low-income patients faced far more aggressive debt collection lawsuits. They only stopped after ProPublica and MLK50 asked about it. → Read More
Have You Been Sued by a Hospital, Doctor or Other Medical Institution? Tell Us About It. —
ProPublica and MLK50 have been investigating Memphis institutions that profit from the poor. Now, we want to hear from people across the country who have been sued or arrested after unpaid medical bills. → Read More
Journalists, We’re Sharing Our Tips From Patients With Medical Debt. Want Them? —
Stories about aggressive debt collection are leading to real change, and we want to see more of them. Let us give you our leads from across the country. → Read More
Thousands of Poor Patients Face Lawsuits From Nonprofit Hospitals That Trap Them in Debt —
Across the country, low-income patients are overcoming stigmas surrounding poverty to speak out about nonprofit hospitals that sue them. Federal officials are noticing. Help us keep the pressure on. → Read More