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What a $2 Million Per Dose Gene Therapy Reveals About Drug Pricing

by Robin Fields

February 12, 2025, 8:00 am EST
Three Months After Missouri Voted to Make Abortion Legal, Access Is Still Being Blocked

by Jeremy Kohler

February 5, 2025, 4:40 pm EST
Dozens of People Died in Arizona Sober Living Homes as State Officials Fumbled Medicaid Fraud Response

by Mary Hudetz, ProPublica, and Hannah Bassett, Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting

January 27, 2025, 7:00 am EST
Insurers Failed to Comply With Mental Health Coverage Law, Department of Labor Report Finds

by Duaa Eldeib, Maya Miller, Annie Waldman and Max Blau

January 24, 2025, 6:00 am EST
Is a New Mississippi Law Decreasing Jailings of People Awaiting Mental Health Treatment? The State Doesn’t Know.

by Gwen Dilworth, Mississippi Today

January 23, 2025, 5:00 am EST
Lawmakers in at Least Seven States Seek Expanded Abortion Access

by Ziva Branstetter and Cassandra Jaramillo

January 17, 2025, 7:00 am EST
Her Mental Health Treatment Was Helping. That’s Why Insurance Cut Off Her Coverage.

by Maya Miller and Duaa Eldeib

December 31, 2024, 5:00 am EST
Insurers Continue to Rely on Doctors Whose Judgments Have Been Criticized by Courts

by Duaa Eldeib and Maya Miller, with research by Kirsten Berg

December 30, 2024, 6:00 am EST
The CDC Hasn’t Asked States to Track Deaths Linked to Abortion Bans

by Kavitha Surana, Robin Fields and Ziva Branstetter

December 20, 2024, 5:00 am EST
Report: Hospitals Rarely Advise Doctors on How to Treat Patients Under Abortion Bans

by Kavitha Surana

December 19, 2024, 12:30 pm EST
If You’re Pregnant, Here’s What You Should Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life

by Kavitha Surana and Lizzie Presser

December 19, 2024, 5:00 am EST
Are Abortion Bans Across America Causing Deaths? The States That Passed Them Are Doing Little to Find Out.

by Kavitha Surana, Mariam Elba, Cassandra Jaramillo, Robin Fields and Ziva Branstetter

December 18, 2024, 5:00 am EST
UnitedHealth Is Strategically Limiting Access to Critical Treatment for Kids With Autism

by Annie Waldman

December 13, 2024, 6:00 am EST
A Coast Guard Commander Miscarried. She Nearly Died After Being Denied Care.

by Erin Edwards for ProPublica and Robin Fields

December 13, 2024, 5:00 am EST
The FDA Hasn’t Inspected This Drug Factory After 7 Recalls for the Same Flaw, 1 Potentially Deadly

by Patricia Callahan, Debbie Cenziper and Megan Rose

December 12, 2024, 5:00 am EST
Sign Up to Screen Our New Documentary About Stillbirths

by Nadia Sussman, Duaa Eldeib, Liz Moughon and Lisa Riordan Seville

December 9, 2024, 6:00 am EST
“Eat What You Kill”

by J. David McSwane

December 7, 2024, 5:00 am EST
Missouri Voters Enshrined Abortion Rights. GOP Lawmakers Are Already Working to Roll Them Back.

by Jeremy Kohler

December 5, 2024, 5:00 am EST
If Trump Makes Cuts to Medicaid, Texas Officials Could Seize the Opportunity to Further Slash the Program

by Lomi Kriel and Jessica Priest

December 4, 2024, 11:30 am EST
A Timeline of Failed Efforts to Reform Idaho’s Coroner System

by Audrey Dutton

December 2, 2024, 5:05 am EST
For Decades, Calls for Reform to Idaho’s Troubled Coroner System Have Gone Unanswered

by Audrey Dutton

December 2, 2024, 5:00 am EST
Maine Proposes Major Staffing Increases for Assisted Living and Residential Care Facilities

Rose Lundy, The Maine Monitor

November 27, 2024, 6:00 am EST
A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments.

by Lizzie Presser and Kavitha Surana

November 25, 2024, 6:00 am EST
How Lincare Cashed In on the Disastrous Recall of Philips Breathing Machines — at the Expense of Patients

by Peter Elkind

November 22, 2024, 5:00 am EST
Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal Details of Two Deaths

by Amy Yurkanin

November 21, 2024, 5:00 am EST
Texas Lawmakers Push for New Exceptions to State’s Strict Abortion Ban After the Deaths of Two Women

by Cassandra Jaramillo, Kavitha Surana, Lizzie Presser and Ziva Branstetter

November 20, 2024, 5:00 am EST
How UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Countless Americans’ Treatment at Risk

by Annie Waldman

November 19, 2024, 5:00 am EST
State Regulators Know Health Insurance Directories Are Full of Wrong Information. They’re Doing Little to Fix It.

by Max Blau

November 14, 2024, 12:01 pm EST
How Lincare Became a Multibillion-Dollar Medicare Scofflaw

by Peter Elkind

November 13, 2024, 6:00 am EST
An Idaho Baby’s Unexplained Death Got No Autopsy and a Scant Coroner’s Investigation. State Law Says That’s Fine.

by Audrey Dutton, photography by Natalie Behring for ProPublica

November 11, 2024, 6:00 am EST
ProPublica’s Coverage of the Election Issues That Matter to Voters

by ProPublica

November 2, 2024, 6:00 am EDT
Una mujer de Texas murió después de que el hospital dijera que sería un “delito” intervenir en su aborto espontáneo

por Cassandra Jaramillo y Kavitha Surana

November 1, 2024, 10:00 am EDT
A Pregnant Teenager Died After Trying to Get Care in Three Visits to Texas Emergency Rooms

by Lizzie Presser and Kavitha Surana

November 1, 2024, 6:00 am EDT
A Woman Died After Being Told It Would Be a “Crime” to Intervene in Her Miscarriage at a Texas Hospital

by Cassandra Jaramillo and Kavitha Surana

October 30, 2024, 5:00 am EDT
¿Está atrapado en el atraso por la acumulación de solicitudes en Texas para tener Medicaid y cupones de alimentos? ¿Conoce a alguien en esta situación? Ayúdenos a informar.

por Jessica Priest y Lomi Kriel, y Eleanor Klibanoff, The Texas Tribune

October 25, 2024, 1:46 pm EDT
A pesar de las constantes advertencias, Texas se apresuró a despojar a millones de personas de Medicaid

por Eleanor Klibanoff, The Texas Tribune, y Lomi Kriel

October 25, 2024, 1:45 pm EDT
“Not Medically Necessary”: Inside the Company Helping America’s Biggest Health Insurers Deny Coverage for Care

by T. Christian Miller, ProPublica; Patrick Rucker, The Capitol Forum; and David Armstrong, ProPublica

October 23, 2024, 1:30 pm EDT
Opponents of Missouri Abortion Rights Amendment Turn to Anti-Trans Messaging and Misinformation

by Jeremy Kohler

October 18, 2024, 5:00 am EDT
How We Report on Maternal Health — and How to Get in Touch With Our Team

by Alexandra Zayas

October 3, 2024, 11:00 am EDT
Georgia Judge Lifts Six-Week Abortion Ban After Deaths of Two Women Who Couldn’t Access Care

by Ziva Branstetter

October 3, 2024, 5:00 am EDT
A Hospital Kept a Brain-Damaged Patient on Life Support to Boost Statistics. His Sister Is Now Suing for Malpractice.

by Caroline Chen

October 2, 2024, 6:00 am EDT
Caught in Texas’ Medicaid and Food Stamp Application Backlog? Know Someone Who Is? Help Us Report.

by Jessica Priest and Lomi Kriel, and Eleanor Klibanoff, The Texas Tribune

September 26, 2024, 6:05 am EDT
Despite Persistent Warnings, Texas Rushed to Remove Millions From Medicaid. That Move Cost Eligible Residents Care.

by Eleanor Klibanoff, The Texas Tribune, and Lomi Kriel

September 26, 2024, 6:00 am EDT
Did a Georgia Hospital Break Federal Law When It Failed to Save Amber Thurman? A Senate Committee Chair Wants Answers.

by Ziva Branstetter

September 23, 2024, 11:15 am EDT
Afraid to Seek Care Amid Georgia’s Abortion Ban, She Stayed at Home and Died

by Kavitha Surana

September 18, 2024, 6:00 am EDT
How Do Abortion Pills Work? Answers to Frequently Asked Questions.

by Ziva Branstetter

September 16, 2024, 5:05 am EDT
Abortion Bans Have Delayed Emergency Medical Care. In Georgia, Experts Say This Mother’s Death Was Preventable.

by Kavitha Surana

September 16, 2024, 5:00 am EDT
Arizona Cracked Down on Medicaid Fraud That Targeted Native Americans. It Left Patients Without Care.

by Hannah Bassett, Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting, and Mary Hudetz, ProPublica, photography by Adriana Zehbrauskas, special to ProPublica

September 10, 2024, 5:00 am EDT
New Biden Administration Rules Aim to Hold Insurers Accountable for Mental Health Care Coverage

by Maya Miller and Annie Waldman

September 9, 2024, 1:45 pm EDT
“I Don’t Want to Die”: Needing Mental Health Care, He Got Trapped in His Insurer’s Ghost Network

by Max Blau, illustrations by Vanessa Saba, special to ProPublica

September 8, 2024, 6:05 am EDT