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Tag: Charles Ornstein

What We Learned From the First Year of the Local Reporting Network
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What We Learned From the First Year of the Local Reporting Network

January 21, 2019January 21, 2019

by Charles Ornstein  Jan. 15, 6:12 p.m. EST Reporters across the country are brimming with ideas for great stories to investigate. All they lack is time and support. The crisis in …

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Memorial Sloan Kettering Curbs Executives’ Ties to Industry After Conflict-of-Interest Scandals
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Curbs Executives’ Ties to Industry After Conflict-of-Interest Scandals

January 14, 2019January 14, 2019

The cancer center will now bar top officials from sitting on outside boards of for-profit companies, and is conducting a wide-scale review of other policies. by Katie Thomas, The New York Times, …

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Some Doctors Still Billing Medicare for the Most Complicated, Expensive Office Visits

January 2, 2018

by Charles Ornstein and Ryann Grochowski Jones  Dec. 27, 2017, 8 a.m. EST Thousands of times a year, Medicare patients file into Dr. Mark Roberts’ family practice clinic in rural Evergreen, Alabama, for …

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Hours After Landing in U.S., Cleveland Clinic Doctor Forced to Leave by Trump’s Order

October 30, 2017

Dr. Suha Abushamma’s flight back to Saudi Arabia took off minutes before a federal judge ordered such forced removals to stop. “She was basically racing against Trump,” a colleague and …

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Take the Generic Drug, Patients Are Told – Unless Insurers Say No

August 8, 2017August 23, 2017

By Charles Ornstein, ProPublica, and Katie Thomas, The New York Times, Aug. 6, 2017, 6 p.m. It’s standard advice for consumers: If you are prescribed a medicine, always ask if …

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Privacy Not Included: Federal Law Lags Behind New Tech

May 23, 2017

by Charles Ornstein ProPublica, Nov. 17, 2015, 11 a.m. Jacqueline Stokes spotted the home paternity test at her local drugstore in Florida and knew she had to try it. She …

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A Father’s War, A Son’s Toxic Inheritance

June 24, 2016

Stephen M. Katz for ProPublica and The Virginian-Pilot, as told to Mike Hixenbaugh and Charles Ornstein Stephen Katz shares his 45th birthday with his father Al and son Sawyer, their …

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