How UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Countless Americans’ Treatment at Risk
United used an algorithm system to identify patients who it determined were getting too much therapy and then limited ...
Finding Focus: How a Visual Storyteller Gets the Right Image — and the Right Tone
Photography is a powerful journalistic tool, providing visual evidence and evoking emotions that urge us to understand the ...
ProPublica's Bailout Data
A database of expenditures by the Treasury Department through both the TARP bill and the separate bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Segregation Academies Across the South Are Getting Millions in Taxpayer Dollars
North Carolina offers an especially telling window into what is happening across this once legally segregated region where ...
How Lincare Became a Multibillion-Dollar Medicare Scofflaw
Lincare, the nation’s largest distributor of home oxygen equipment, has repeatedly violated Medicare rules and probation ...
Senator Slams Gun Industry’s “Invasive and Dangerous” Sharing of Customer Data With Political Operatives
In response to a ProPublica investigation, Sen. Richard Blumenthal demanded answers from the gun industry about its “covert ...
Despite Biden’s Promise to Protect Old Forests, His Administration Keeps Approving Plans to Cut Them Down
In Oregon’s Coast Range, mature forests can absorb more carbon per acre than almost any other on the planet. Yet logging here ...
A 13-Year-Old With Autism Got Arrested After His Backpack Sparked Fear. Only His Stuffed Bunny Was Inside.
Disability rights advocates said kids like Ty should not be getting arrested under Tennessee’s school threats law. And they ...
Despite Trump’s Win, School Vouchers Were Again Rejected by Majorities of Voters
In several Republican-led states, popular sentiment on the voucher issue has been overridden by the efforts of special ...
State Regulators Know Health Insurance Directories Are Full of Wrong Information. They’re Doing Little to Fix It.
State agencies say they’re holding insurers accountable for errors in provider directories. But ProPublica found that the actual actions taken so far do not match the regulators’ rhetoric.
What to Expect From ProPublica in a Second Trump Administration
We’ll be devoting a significant part of our staff to detailing what are expected to be dramatic changes in the role of the ...
An Idaho Baby’s Unexplained Death Got No Autopsy and a Scant Coroner’s Investigation. State Law Says That’s Fine.
With a lack of regulation for coroners, a child who dies unexpectedly or outside of a doctor’s care in Idaho is less likely to be autopsied than anywhere else in the United States.