Christopher Weaver
@cdweaver
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WSJ reporter. Pitches: 212-555-0178 Legitimately newsworthy tips: 212-416-4084
New York, NY
Joined April 2009
Our @WSJ investigation of the dubious Medicare Advantage practices that cost taxpayers billions and enriched giant insures won an IRE Award. Love the citation: "Not the most exciting topic..." Thank you @IRE_NICAR!
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An investigation into the secret practices insurers use to pocket billions from Medicare.
Congratulations to the winners and finalists of the 2024 IRE Awards!
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.@WSJ was named as a 2025 @ShorensteinCtr Goldsmith Prize finalist for its series on health insurers racking up billions in extra payments from medicare advantage. Read the reporting from @cdweaver, @mcgint, @annawmathews, @MarkMaremont, @armollica here: https://t.co/0oWIKAWYjo
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The Wall Street Journal’s yearlong investigation into Medicare’s private insurers relied on exclusive access to billions of records of Medicare services.
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Our latest, reporting DOJ is looking at UnitedHealth Medicare billing practices. This is separate from the antitrust probe and follows our year-long investigation of UnitedHealth and other Medicare Advantage insurers. Find those stories here:
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The Wall Street Journal’s yearlong investigation into Medicare’s private insurers relied on exclusive access to billions of records of Medicare services.
The Justice Department is probing billing practices at UnitedHealth Group that triggered extra payments to its Medicare Advantage plans, people familiar with the matter say
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UnitedHealth gave doctors checklists and bonuses linked to diagnosing the company’s Medicare Advantage patients. The process helped increase Medicare payments by billions. https://t.co/vMW2LL3rQ2 via @WSJ
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The biggest Medicare Advantage insurer presented physicians with checklists of potential diagnose.; “I didn’t think I was obese,” one suspicious patient told his doctor.
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Latest. The sickest patients flee Medicare Advantage plans at high rates, shifting billions from private insurers to taxpayers.
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Medicare Advantage patients in the last year of life were far more likely to switch to traditional Medicare, shifting costs from insurers.
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FREE WSJ READ: Our July investigation of insurer-added diagnoses in Medicare--which cost taxpayers $50 billion over three years--is now available to all readers, free of charge. Check it out here:
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Questionable diagnoses of HIV and other maladies triggered extra Medicare Advantage payments. “It’s anatomically impossible,” said one doctor about some cataract diagnoses.
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“In a million years, I wouldn’t have come up with a diagnosis of secondary hyperaldosteronism." Our investigation continues on how Medicare insurers add diagnoses that drive billions of $ in gov't payments.
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Information gathered from Medicare Advantage patients in their homes triggered extra payments. “It made me cringe,” said one nurse.
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Latest: Medicare Advantange insurers were paid big time for diagnoses no one treated--HIV, Parkinson's, complications of diabetes most likely caused by old age. 'It's anatomically impossible...'
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Questionable diagnoses of HIV and other maladies triggered extra Medicare Advantage payments. “It’s anatomically impossible,” said one doctor about some cataract diagnoses.
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USPS's search for savings in its trucking network has led it a pool of unvetted drivers, including some with criminal convictions, repeat accidents, little experience and more.
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The agency’s new strategy of using freight brokers to cut its rates for long-haul trucking raises questions about highway safety.
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Rep. Gerry Connolly D-Va asked USPS's OIG to conduct an investigation of its trucking safety practices that answers key questions about how numbers of crash deaths, safety oversight. OIG is already asking about trucking safety after our story USPS says. https://t.co/pMN6JlwDnP
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A Virginia Democrat’s letter to government watchdog cites “troubling allegations” in a Wall Street Journal analysis about companies that haul mail.
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USPS put truckers up against near impossible schedules and turned the other way when the broke safety rules. Crashes killed dozens.
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Postal Service, under pressure on costs, hires trucking companies at cut rates and pushes them to meet aggressive delivery schedules
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“It is just such a relief that it is over.” —Tyler Shultz
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The sentencing, for a fraud scheme at the now-defunct blood-testing firm, caps a saga that became synonymous with the worst of Silicon Valley culture.
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“‘Of course it was fraud,’ Mr. Murdoch said in an email after the sentencing.”
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A jury had convicted Elizabeth Holmes earlier his year on charges that she misrepresented the startup’s technology, finances and business prospects to investors.
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Also, Holmes sentencing guidelines calculation shouldn't be increased because...
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Elizabeth Holmes disputes the probation officer's calculation of losses in her fraud, a key ingredient in sentencing guidelines, but why exactly is somehow not for public consumption:
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Hard to imagine that there can be any legitimate justification for this redaction in Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes's public sentencing memorandum. This entire docket is riddled with inexplicable secrecy.
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8 victims of a pedophile IHS doctor have reached an agreement with the government for around $14.5 million. The settlement comes 3 years after @WSJ @frontlinepbs documentary on how Dr. Stanley Weber abused Native American boys for decades. w/@cdweaver:
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The U.S. government reached a $14.5 million settlement agreement with eight men who said in civil suits that they were sexually assaulted by an Indian Health Service pediatrician when they were young.
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How did @IHSgov handle whistleblowers who flagged Weber's abuse? One proposed sending an accuser to Kotzebue, AK, in the Arctic Circle, to silence him. The agency made a series of changes after our initial report to try to fix this toxic culture. https://t.co/dV2ZQVfu5x
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The U.S. government reached a $14.5 million settlement agreement with eight men who said in civil suits that they were sexually assaulted by an Indian Health Service pediatrician when they were young.
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Under this deal, each victim would get $1.5-$2 million. Some of them endured years of sexual abuse at the hands of the doctor. @IHSgov managers ignored and even punished people who accused Weber of abuse. https://t.co/dV2ZQVfu5x
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The U.S. government reached a $14.5 million settlement agreement with eight men who said in civil suits that they were sexually assaulted by an Indian Health Service pediatrician when they were young.
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