Robin Fields
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Global health reporter, ProPublica; formerly managing editor at ProPublica, cat servant
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Joined June 2008
Refusing payment for medical care and drugs has become a staple of health insurers’ business model, consumer advocates said. Less than 1% of claim denials are appealed and that’s money “left on the table that the insurers keep,” one said.
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Insurers’ denial rates — a critical measure of how reliably they pay for customers’ care — remain mostly secret to the public. Federal and state regulators have done little to change that.
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State and federal regulators have the power to compel health insurers to reveal how often they refuse to pay for treatments, tests and drugs. Why are most plans’ denial rates still a closely held secret?
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Insurers’ denial rates — a critical measure of how reliably they pay for customers’ care — remain mostly secret to the public. Federal and state regulators have done little to change that.
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NY Gov. Kathy Hochul has declared a State Disaster Emergency.
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The Nassau County sample has been genetically linked to the case in Rockland County, which paralyzed an unvaccinated man.
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Add Nassau County to the list of places in New York where health officials have now found poliovirus in sewage. The others: Rockland, Orange and Sullivan counties and NYC.
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@cdc 2/ In July 2020, 67% of Rockland County kids 2 and under had gotten the three recommended polio shots. That number now stands at 60% -- and in some zip codes it’s as low as 37.3%.
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2/ In July 2020, 67% of Rockland County kids 2 and under had gotten the three recommended polio shots. That number now stands at 60% -- and in some zip codes it’s as low as 37.3%.
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A new @CDC report on polio case in Rockland County, NY, illustrates how vaccination rates have eroded, creating vulnerabilities to disease:
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This report describes a case of polio in an unvaccinated adult resident of New York and highlights why it’s important to stay up to date on recommended poliovirus vaccination.
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RT @ProPublica: Firestone used Liberia plantation for business of rubber. Taylor used it for business of war. http://t.co/TWytRa3ye1 http:/….
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RT @eisingerj: Iconic US co Firestone bankrolled Liberian despot Charles Taylor. The untold story. @txtianmiller & J. Jones: http://t.co/vG….
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RT @charlesornstein: Coming tomorrow: A @ProPublica investigation into the @RedCross "Secret Disaster" after #Sandy. Preview: http://t.co/4….
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RT @ProPublica: #SegregationNow: 60 years after #BrownvBoard, @ProPublica investigates school resegregation http://t.co/8WFB2Ign24.
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Sixty years after the Supreme Court declared an end to “separate but equal” education, many Southern school districts have moved back in time, isolating poor black and Latino students in segregated...
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RT @ProPublica: Fed examiner who took on @GoldmanSachs — and was fired — files wrongful termination lawsuit http://t.co/qOKeJyI8S0.
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Lawyer Carmen Segarra said she was pressured to change her finding that the way Goldman Sachs managed conflicts of interest was flawed.
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Who sanctions NY prosecutors for abusing their authority? no one really http://t.co/YSLKBYnH8C. Check out @ProPublica.
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RT @ProPublica: Exclusive: What Karl Rove’s dark-money nonprofit told the IRS. http://t.co/f0brQMMG.
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RT @Kim_Barker: Just what did Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS tell the IRS it planned to do in its application? We get it first: http://t.co/ . .
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Polluting water with the EPA's approval? Check out the latest in @ProPublica series on injection wells http://t.co/HerbrbN4.
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Great story in LAT about how dr's prescription contribute to overdoses http://t.co/ABoWVCOn value of autopsy records.
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Dialysis chain DaVita hit with shareholder lawsuit accusing chief exec, others of breaching fiduciary duty http://t.co/KyDBsNen.
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Dialysis giant Fresenius reports it's investigating whether it violated US anti-bribery laws, WSJ reports http://t.co/8BsN6kJ0.
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