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Transparency test: Grading the super PACs
Throughout the course of the 2012 election, the Consider the Source team will continue to write profiles about the major super PACs and nonprofits that are spending heavily on political advertising.In...
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Consider the Source: Your personal election guide
With less than two months to go before the Nov. 6th election, nearly $3 billion has been raised by all the presidential and congressional candidates, along with the parties and super PACs, a...
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Daily Disclosure: It's labor versus tea party in PA House race
It’s the tea party versus unions in the race to determine who will control Pennsylvania’s redrawn 12th Congressional District. Democratic Rep. Mark Critz, backed by union muscle, faces a challenge...
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Live Chat: 'Mystery in the Fields' reporters Sasha Chavkin, Anna Barry-Jester
Mystery in the Fields: When reporting gets personal
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How doctors and hospitals have collected billions in questionable Medicare fees
Thousands of doctors and other medical professionals have steadily billed higher rates for treating elderly patients on Medicare over the last decade — adding $11 billion or more to their fees and...
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About the 'Cracking the Codes' project
The “Cracking the Codes” stories are but the latest in a series of Center pieces that illuminate questionable Medicare practices and policies by marrying traditional shoe-leather reporting with...
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Methodology for 'Cracking the Codes'
For this series, the Center for Public Integrity and Palantir Technologies analyzed Medicare claims data obtained from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).For privacy purposes and...
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Judgment calls on billing make 'upcoding' prosecutions rare
There simply weren’t enough hours in the day to justify the fees Dr. Angel S. Martin collected from Medicare.On fifty-three separate days, the Newton, Iowa, general surgeon billed the government...
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Top 20 counties for high coding
U.S. counties in which doctors billed the highest percentage* of the two most expensive Medicare codes for established patients in 2008.Santa Rosa County, Fla. (60%)Escambia County, Fla....
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Key findings:
Thousands of medical professionals have billed Medicare at progressively higher rates over a decade’s time, costing taxpayers at least $11 billion in inflated charges.A significant portion of the...
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Mississippi town struggles with 'school to prison pipeline' charges
MERIDIAN, Miss. — Lionel Townsend will turn 14 in September. And a few months after that he will be able to return to school, ending a year of exile.Lionel admits he got into fights multiple times at...
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As kidney disease kills thousands across continents, scientists scramble for...
SANDAMALGAMA, Sri Lanka — In this tiny Sri Lankan village, rice farmer Wimal Rajaratna sits cross-legged on a wooden bed, peering out toward lush palm trees that surround his home. Listless and weak,...
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Do you know of other outbreaks of mystery CKD?
Our investigation of unexplained CKD among rural workers began as a story about a single plantation in Nicaragua. Then, it became several plantations in the region; next, nearly the entire Pacific...
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About the 'Mystery in the Fields' project
Mystery in the Fields, a three-part series, explores how a rare form of kidney disease is killing laborers and crippling communities in three different regions, from Central America to Sri Lanka to...
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Slideshow: Mystery in the Fields
Mystery in the Fields Wimal Rajarathna recieves dialysis treatment at Anuradhapura General Hospital. Anna Barry-Jester http://www.publicintegrity.org/authors/anna-barry-jester...
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