Christopher Weaver

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[Christopher Weaver @cdweaver]

Our @WSJ investigation of the dubious Medicare Advantage practices that cost taxpayers billions and enriched giant insures won an IRE Award. Love the citation: "Not the most exciting topic..." Thank you @IRE_NICAR! https://t.co/DMtVLhvZmQ

[Investigative Reporters & Editors @IRE_NICAR]

Congratulations to the winners and finalists of the 2024 IRE Awards! https://t.co/Fi7suAP2oA

[WSJ Communications @WSJPR]

.@WSJ was named as a 2025 @ShorensteinCtr Goldsmith Prize finalist for its series on health insurers racking up billions in extra payments from medicare advantage.

Read the reporting from @cdweaver, @mcgint, @annawmathews, @MarkMaremont, @armollica here:
https://t.co/0oWIKAWYjo

[Christopher Weaver @cdweaver]

Our latest, reporting DOJ is looking at UnitedHealth Medicare billing practices. This is separate from the antitrust probe and follows our year-long investigation of UnitedHealth and other Medicare Advantage insurers. Find those stories here: https://t.co/NJ9eNEpuoj

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

The Justice Department is probing billing practices at UnitedHealth Group that triggered extra payments to its Medicare Advantage plans, people familiar with the matter say https://t.co/TGdhbb5Xf6

[Christopher Weaver @cdweaver]

UnitedHealth gave doctors checklists and bonuses linked to diagnosing the company’s Medicare Advantage patients. The process helped increase Medicare payments by billions. https://t.co/vMW2LL3rQ2 via @WSJ

[Christopher Weaver @cdweaver]

Latest. The sickest patients flee Medicare Advantage plans at high rates, shifting billions from private insurers to taxpayers. https://t.co/fon1YY5QLS

[Christopher Weaver @cdweaver]

FREE WSJ READ: Our July investigation of insurer-added diagnoses in Medicare--which cost taxpayers $50 billion over three years--is now available to all readers, free of charge. Check it out here: https://t.co/Oi6uZnQRDa

[Christopher Weaver @cdweaver]

“In a million years, I wouldn’t have come up with a diagnosis of secondary hyperaldosteronism." Our investigation continues on how Medicare insurers add diagnoses that drive billions of $ in gov't payments. https://t.co/6sxrPbCk88

[Christopher Weaver @cdweaver]

Latest: Medicare Advantange insurers were paid big time for diagnoses no one treated--HIV, Parkinson's, complications of diabetes most likely caused by old age. 'It's anatomically impossible...' https://t.co/WfkWg52zNT

[Casus Belli @casusbellii]

🇨🇫🇷🇺🚨| A Telegram channel affiliated to the #Wagner group published this photo (showing an IL-76 , thanks @gerjon_) claiming that new mercenaries had recently arrived in the Central African Republic to provide local security.

The information follows rumors of the transfer of 500 to 600 mercenaries to Moscow.

The information was later denied by Wagner sources, who claimed that the group was being deployed across the country to secure the local elections, due to take place on July 30.

[Christopher Weaver @cdweaver]

USPS's search for savings in its trucking network has led it a pool of unvetted drivers, including some with criminal convictions, repeat accidents, little experience and more. https://t.co/tIlSwDyQKH

[Christopher Weaver @cdweaver]

Rep. Gerry Connolly D-Va asked USPS's OIG to conduct an investigation of its trucking safety practices that answers key questions about how numbers of crash deaths, safety oversight. OIG is already asking about trucking safety after our story USPS says.

https://t.co/pMN6JlwDnP

[Christopher Weaver @cdweaver]

USPS put truckers up against near impossible schedules and turned the other way when the broke safety rules. Crashes killed dozens. https://t.co/yXOeV988Yj

[Christopher Weaver @cdweaver]

“It is just such a re­lief that it is over.” —Tyler Shultz https://t.co/JlqVqHCPaP

[Christopher Weaver @cdweaver]

@yurikageyama Thank you, you too.

[John Carreyrou @JohnCarreyrou]

“‘Of course it was fraud,’ Mr. Murdoch said in an email after the sentencing.” https://t.co/maoi0qyBGa

[Christopher Weaver @cdweaver]

Also, Holmes sentencing guidelines calculation shouldn't be increased because...

[Christopher Weaver @cdweaver]

Elizabeth Holmes disputes the probation officer's calculation of losses in her fraud, a key ingredient in sentencing guidelines, but why exactly is somehow not for public consumption:

[Christopher Weaver @cdweaver]

Hard to imagine that there can be any legitimate justification for this redaction in Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes's public sentencing memorandum. This entire docket is riddled with inexplicable secrecy.

[Dan Frosch @djfroschWSJ]

8 victims of a pedophile IHS doctor have reached an agreement with the government for around $14.5 million. The settlement comes 3 years after @WSJ @frontlinepbs documentary on how Dr. Stanley Weber abused Native American boys for decades. w/@cdweaver: https://t.co/FOx81VzQg7

[Christopher Weaver @cdweaver]

How did @IHSgov handle whistleblowers who flagged Weber's abuse? One proposed sending an accuser to Kotzebue, AK, in the Arctic Circle, to silence him. The agency made a series of changes after our initial report to try to fix this toxic culture.

https://t.co/dV2ZQVfu5x