Little-known AMA group has outsized influence on Medicare payments

By Joe Eaton and Joe Eaton

Early this month, a group of 29 doctors gathered in a modern conference room at the Hyatt Regency Chicago, a few blocks from Lake Shore Driv

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"… tagonist saying this system does not work. I made a motion to seek medical directors of managed care plans to help us identify overvalued services. I was roun …"

"… hysician workforce?” asked Goodson, the Harvard professor.Jonathan Blum, director of CMS’s Center for Medicare Management, said the committee provides a h …"

Center's campus assault series part of Congressional hearing record

By Caitlin Ginley

The Center for Public Integrity’s Sexual Assault on Campus became part of the official record of a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing tod

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"… spread underreporting of rape cases in the United States.S. Daniel Carter, director of public policy for Security on Campus included the Center’s entire se …"

"… s who have been victims of rape report it to the authorities.Susan Carbon, director of the Justice Department’s Office of Violence Against Women, told the h …"

Unproven for older women, digital mammography saps Medicare dollars

By Joe Eaton, Elizabeth Lucas and David Donald

High-tech, digital mammography may not be any better at detecting breast cancer in women over 65 than older film-based systems, but Medicare

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"… ealth, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, Amy Langer, then executive director of the National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations, warned that FDA m …"

"… etwork in New Hampshire, recruited two elderly residents and the executive director of Peabody Home, an assisted living facility, to star in a print advertise …"

"… l that could SAVE YOUR LIFE!” the ad proclaims.Meg Miller, the executive director of Peabody Home, who starred in the ad, defended pitching digital mammogra …"

"… by the Center for Public Integrity. Debbie Clark, the center’s executive director, said Killebrew’s 2008 Medicare billing brought in around $535,000, whic …"

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Third annual Arab investigative journalism conference

By Simona Raetz

Our colleagues at the Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ) are staging their third annual conference in Amman, Jordan, Novembe

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"… Dumitru Lazur (Moldova.). ICIJ members Fredrik Laurin, Drew Sullivan (USA) director for the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Centre; and Paul Radu (Ro …"

More media scrutiny in Venezuela?

By Ricardo Sandoval Palos

Not long after I returned from conducting a day-long seminar on investigative reporting in Caracas for a diverse group of Venezuelan journal

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"… onally by their own, often-partisan editors and owners. IPYS Venezuela’s director, Ewald Scharfenberg, said after the government’s new admonishment, “a …"

Overview: The tobacco lobby goes global

By Ricardo Sandoval Palos

The tobacco lobby goes global

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"… rope.“This was our experience,” said Gro Harlem Brundtland, former WHO director general who led the international body in the years before its tobacco con …"

"… better at sidestepping laws designed to get people to stop smoking,” CDC director Thomas R. Frieden told reporters this year.In a written statement, BA …"

"… s Mexico operation. He also has a seat on the parent company’s board of directors. In 2004, Slim also participated in a private meeting with then President …"

"… slow and dilute reforms, said Derek Yach, former top assistant to the WHO director general and now head of PepsiCo’s Global Health Initiative. “Increment …"

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New details on kidnapping and murder of reporter Daniel Pearl

A three-year investigation into the story behind the murder of journalist Daniel Pearl reveals new details about the crime

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"… have been shrouded – until now,” said William E. Buzenberg, executive director of the Center for Public Integrity. “This is outstanding investigative r …"

ICIJ accepting entries for Daniel Pearl Awards

Entries for the 2011 Daniel Pearl Awards for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting are now being accepted

Gingrich cements ties to religious leaders

By Peter H. Stone

Newt Gingrich spinoff group aims to raise as much as $1 million to spend on religious-blessed political issues in coming months...

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"… $250,000 on two high stakes projects in Washington and in Iowa. Tyler is a director of Renewing American Leadership and president of ReAL Action, its 501(c)4 …"

"… ted and pays the salary of Kellen Guida, the balanced budget coalition’s director, and helped to put together its website—BBAnow.com. Other members of the …"

"… ler said that he expects to step down as president of ReAL Action and as a director of the other group by month’s end, because Gingrich is now in a presiden …"

Top spy job is no plum

By Peter Newbatt Smith

President-Elect Barack Obama has been slow to name his choice for the government’s top intelligence job, director of national intelligence.

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"… been slow to name his choice for the government’s top intelligence job, director of national intelligence. Maybe that’s because the position hasn’t bee …"

"… luding the director of National Intelligence and several others within the director’s office.So, if you have extensive experience in the federal intelligenc …"

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