Mark Maremont

Exclusive: A bipartisan group of lawmakers is aiming to close a loophole that allows large healthcare insurers to charge Medicare billions of dollars to cover veterans who get most of their treatment through the taxpayer-funded VA on.wsj.com/3GayEFt

Helluva story @MarkMaremont @mcgint @cdweaver and Anna Wilde Matthews. Insurers sent nurses to the homes of Medicare Advantage patients to gather information for new diagnoses. The reward: $15 billion of additional government payments. wsj.com/health/healthc… via @WSJ

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Listen 🎧: How did private insurers collect $50 billion in extra payments from Medicare? @cdweaver discusses the @wsj investigation. Plus, President Biden says he’s not stepping aside as the Democratic candidate. @francescamarief hosts. on.wsj.com/3o375VH

Jaw dropping. Insurers collected $50 billion extra from Medicare by making questionable diagnoses, often without the knowledge of patients or their doctors. wsj.com/health/healthc… via @WSJ

Incredible investigative reporting from @WSJ “Some diagnoses claimed by insurers were demonstrably false, the Journal found, because the conditions already had been cured.” Insurers pocketed $50 billion from Medicare for diseases no doctor treated wsj.com/health/healthc…

Insurers collected $50 billion extra from Medicare by making questionable diagnoses, often without the knowledge of patients or their doctors. wsj.com/health/healthc… via @WSJ @cdweaver @mcgint @annawmathews @MarkMaremont

Private insurers in the federal Medicare Advantage program made hundreds of thousands of questionable diagnoses that triggered extra taxpayer-funded payments, including outright wrong ones, a @WSJ analysis of billions of Medicare records found.  The questionable diagnoses included some for potentially deadly illnesses, such as AIDS, for which patients received no subsequent care, and for conditions people couldn’t possibly have. Often, neither the patients nor their doctors had any idea. wsj.com/health/healthc…

This is a must-read story out today from @cdweaver @mcgint @annawmathews @MarkMaremont. Among the disturbing findings: More than 66K Medicare Advantage patients were diagnosed with diabetic cataracts even though they already had gotten cataract surgery, which replaces the damaged lens of an eye w/a plastic insert—making the diagnosis “anatomically impossible.”

NEW: In a retrial, North Carolina financier Greg Lindberg was again convicted of attempting to bribe the state’s insurance commissioner to obtain more favorable regulatory treatment wsj.com/us-news/law/in… via @WSJ

.@WSJ’s documentary, “Shadow Men: Inside Wagner, Russia’s Secret War Company” was nominated for a Peabody Award, which honors excellence in storytelling across broadcasting and streaming media, in the News category. This is the Journal’s first time getting nominated for the prestigious @PeabodyAwards. The gripping documentary from the WSJ newsroom goes behind the scenes of the Wagner Group, a paramilitary group that was led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, an oligarch and onetime associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has since rebelled against Putin and died in a plane crash. Congratulations to the team behind Shadow Men: Robert Libetti, Chris Stewart, Denise Blostein, Jane Lytvynenko, Frank Matt, Emma Scott, Rob Barry, Benoit Faucon, James V. Grimaldi, James Marson, Ben Weltman, Till Daldrup, and Lisa Schwartz. Read more: bit.ly/3UxePww

The front page of today’s Wall Street Journal. Free Evan now

An internal Boeing review found that Chief Executive David Calhoun and other top executives took personal trips worth more than $500,000 on the company’s private jets and other planes that were improperly recorded as business travel on.wsj.com/4aQtE2m on.wsj.com/4aQtE2m

“His Story Should Be Here” Today’s front page of The Wall Street Journal. One year stolen. We will not rest until Evan Gershkovich is free. #IStandWithEvan

It’s been nearly 11 months since our brilliant colleague, ⁦Evan Gershkovich, was wrongfully detained by Russia for doing his job as a journalist. It’s an absolute outrage. We will continue to shout from the rooftops until he is released. #JournalismIsNotACrime #IStandWithEvan

A six-person jury deliberated for five days before finding the NRA, LaPierre and two other executives liable for violating state charity laws.

Jury orders ex-NRA chief Wayne LaPierre to pay $4 million back to gun-rights group wsj.com/us-news/law/ju…

🧵On March 29, 2023, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was detained in Russia during a reporting trip. He remains in a Moscow prison to this day. We’re offering resources for those who want to show their support for him. #IStandWithEvan wsj.com/Evan

Big news here @michaelsiconolf is retiring after 40 years. talkingbiznews.com/media-news/wsj…

New from me: Trump could get up to $323 million in federal tax deductions from a conservation easement he did on a Florida golf course in 2022. wsj.com/us-news/trumps…