Katie Thomas
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New York Times reporter writing about health care. Send a secure tip here: https://t.co/ZWFeW4qOHE
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https://www.nytimes.com/by/katie-thomas 22-12-2008 22:04:30
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New: seven companies have quietly billed Medicare over $2 billion for catheters that patients never ordered — or even received.
Watchdog groups, doctors, and beneficiaries all suspect a major scam is underway. From me and Katie Thomas:
nytimes.com/2024/02/09/hea…
“He said he sees up to 100 patients a week, charging $900 for a five-minute procedure to release oral ties.” Amazing story on infant “tongue ties,” by Katie Thomas Sarah Kliff Jessica Silver-Greenberg 🕵🏻♀️. Part of our “Operating Profits” series nytimes.com/2023/12/18/hea…
New The New York Times investigation: Countless parents are pushed into unneeded tongue-tie surgeries for their babies, sometimes with awful consequences. Katie Thomas Sarah Kliff Jessica Silver-Greenberg 🕵🏻♀️ Virginia Hughes
Inside the Booming Business of Cutting Babies’ Tongues nytimes.com/2023/12/18/hea…
The The New York Times’s decision to replace our Sports section with nonunion employees sets a troubling precedent. More than 1,000 NYTimesGuild, @WirecutterUnion + New York Times Tech Guild members signed a petition demanding that Times management stop violating our contract and respect union work.
Front page Sunday The New York Times - doesn't get much bigger than this. #Approrpriateness in the treatment of #claudication is finally getting the public attention it deserves. 👏 Jessica Silver-Greenberg 🕵🏻♀️ Katie Thomas Robert Gebeloff
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🚨NEW: Giant medical device companies are bankrolling doctors who push lucrative procedures that can cost some patients their limbs—and their livelihoods.
We dug into this $2 b a year industry. Katie Thomas, Robert Gebeloff, Virginia Hughes, David Enrich nytimes.com/2023/07/15/hea…