Charles Ornstein

Katie Thomas of The New York Times and Charles Ornstein of ProPublica discuss their ongoing coverage of the soaring costs of prescription drugs in the United States.

President Obama unveiled his plan to reform gun legislation, which includes allowing background checking parties access to mental health records. Hear about the implications.

Short Hills Associates in Clinical Psychology disclosed the diagnoses and treatments of patients, including minors, in court papers.

Big cyber attacks and hacked databases might grab the headlines, but ProPublica senior reporter Charles Ornstein says small-scale breaches of medical privacy can cause much more harm.

The Affordable Care Act has given rise to some surprising cost increases beyond premiums and deductibles.

In a recent article for ProPublica, senior reporter Charles Ornstein examines three case studies of medical centers citing HIPAA - the 1996 law mean to protect patients - in ways that protect their own interests and privacy. Ornstein joins us to explain what HIPAA actually covers and explain what your rights are as a patient.

A ProPublica analysis has found that the Garden State costs Medicare more than any other state for ambulance rides per kidney dialysis patient.

Want insurance coverage in place for New Year's Day, 2014? Time is running out, so here's what you need to do.

On the heels of today’s Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care Act, Propublica’s Charlie Ornstein and The Economist’s Charlotte Howard take a look back at the political talking points which engulfed what came to be known as “Obamacare.”

Charlie Ornstein and Tracy Weber, lead reporters of ProPublica’s Dollars for Docs project, relaunched this month, talk about their investigation into how much pharmaceutical companies are spending to train and ultimately influence doctors about their products. They discuss how much is being paid, why there are payments at all, the issues these payments raise, and how many doctors in New York City are getting money.

Charlie Ornstein and Tracy Weber, ProPublica senior reporters, discuss medical societies and their financial ties to drug and medical device makers. Ornstein and Weber are the authors of the article "Financial Ties Bind Medical Societies to Drug and Device Makers," part of ProPublica's series Dollars for Doctors.