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Health Plans Can’t Dodge Paying for Expensive New Cancer Treatments, Says Michigan’s Top Insurance Regulator

After ProPublica reported on a health insurer that refused to cover the only medicine that could save a cancer patient’s life, Michigan insurance regulators clarified that, by law, many plans must pay for any clinically proven treatments.

Representatives Propose Ban on Insurers Charging Doctors a Fee to Be Paid Electronically

After a ProPublica investigation examined how giant insurers and their intermediaries are imposing fees on doctors and hospitals for electronic payment, a bipartisan group of lawmakers has introduced a bill to end the practice.

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Congressional Committee, Regulators Question Cigna System That Lets Its Doctors Deny Claims Without Reading Patient Files

The probes follow an investigation by ProPublica and The Capitol Forum that Cigna allows its doctors to reject hundreds of thousands of claims a month.

Series

41 stories published since 2010

What Mental Health Care Protections Exist in Your State?

Why It’s So Hard to Find a Therapist Who Takes Insurance

Some Surprises in the No Surprises Act

A Doctor at Cigna Said Her Bosses Pressured Her to Review Patients’ Cases Too Quickly. Cigna Threatened to Fire Her.

Health Plans Can’t Dodge Paying for Expensive New Cancer Treatments, Says Michigan’s Top Insurance Regulator

Doctors With Histories of Big Malpractice Settlements Work for Insurers, Deciding If They’ll Pay for Care

Representatives Propose Ban on Insurers Charging Doctors a Fee to Be Paid Electronically

Health Insurers Have Been Breaking State Laws for Years

Insurance Executives Refused to Pay for the Cancer Treatment That Could Have Saved Him. This Is How They Did It.

You Have a Right to Know Why a Health Insurer Denied Your Claim. Some Insurers Still Won’t Tell You.

Find Out Why Your Health Insurer Denied Your Claim

“Where Is There to Go?” He Needs Gender-Affirming Surgery, but His State Is Fighting to Deny Coverage.

The Hidden Fee Costing Doctors Millions Every Year

Congressional Committee, Regulators Question Cigna System That Lets Its Doctors Deny Claims Without Reading Patient Files

The Shadowy Financial Empire Built Around Liberty HealthShare Is Showing Signs of Strain

Coverage of Gender-Affirming Care Is an Unequal Patchwork

Health Insurance Claim Denied? See What Insurers Said Behind the Scenes

This Georgia County Spent $1 Million to Avoid Paying for One Employee’s Gender-Affirming Care

How Obamacare Enabled a Multibillion-Dollar Christian Health Care Cash Grab

A Christian Health Nonprofit Saddled Thousands With Debt as It Built a Family Empire Including a Pot Farm, a Bank and an Airline

UnitedHealthcare Tried to Deny Coverage to a Chronically Ill Patient. He Fought Back, Exposing the Insurer’s Inner Workings.

Do You Have Insights Into Dental and Health Insurance Denials? Help Us Report on the System.

Lavish Bonus? Luxury Trip? Health Benefits Brokers Will Have to Disclose What They Receive From the Insurance Industry

The Billionaire Governor Who’s Been Sued Dozens of Times for Millions in Unpaid Bills

A Major Medical Staffing Company Just Slashed Benefits for Doctors and Nurses Fighting Coronavirus

We Showed How Easy It Is to Commit Health Care Fraud. Now Senators Want to Close the Loophole.

We Asked Prosecutors if Health Insurance Companies Care About Fraud. They Laughed at Us.

The Nonprofit Hospital That Makes Millions, Owns a Collection Agency and Relentlessly Sues the Poor

Senators Call for Disclosure of Perks and Fees Paid to Health Benefits Brokers

We’re Investigating How Insurance Gaps Endanger Mothers. This Is Why.

Behind the Scenes, Health Insurers Use Cash and Gifts to Sway Which Benefits Employers Choose

Health Insurers Are Vacuuming Up Details About You — And It Could Raise Your Rates

Why Your Health Insurer Doesn’t Care About Your Big Bills

What Hospitals Waste

Methodology: How We Analyzed Privacy Violation Data

Insurance Lobby That Fought Hillarycare and Obamacare Now Has Sturdy Bridges to Democrats

One Drug. Two Prices. A Reporter Struggles to Find Out the Cost of His Son’s Prescription

Obamacare Q&A: Fears of a Premium 'Death Spiral' Overstated

For Uninsured Missouri Reporter, Obamacare Is a Real-Life Story

Health Policy Canceled? What We Know and Don’t Know

As Health Care Vote Nears, Another Troubling Insurance Story