NEW: A biotech company donated $5M to attend a March 1 dinner with Trump at Mar-a-Lago.

The company's co-owner brought a flier opposing a pending change limiting Medicare $ for his products.

The next day, Trump posted the flier on Truth Social.

The next month, the Medicare change was tabled.

Here's a gift link to the story (by Sarah Kliff, @bykatiethomas.bsky.social & me) showing a real world effect of Trump's pay-for-access operation.

In this case, it benefited companies making a product that helps patients, but also that Medicare has dinged for “abusive pricing practices.”

Acadia Healthcare’s CEO is getting a $1.8 million bonus for the extra work he will need to do to respond to federal inquiries into the company’s practices. The bonus comes after the stock lost 70 percent of its value. My story with @jsgatnyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/h...

New with @jsgatnyt.bsky.social: In 2018, a therapist was accused of sexually assaulting women at Timberline Knolls, a mental health facility outside Chicago owned by Acadia Healthcare. Back then, the company said it had made changes to "assure it won't happen again."
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/b...

Suicides and Rape at a Prized Mental Health Center. Timberline Knolls, a mental health center owned by Acadia Healthcare, skimped on staff. Then came a series of tragedies, by @jsgatnyt.bsky.social @bykatiethomas.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/b... via @nytimes.com

Trump delayed a Biden-era plan to restrict Medicare’s coverage of skin substitutes, which cost $10 billion in 2024. Trump had received a large campaign donation from a leading bandage seller and skewered the plan on social media.

By Sarah Kliff and Katie Thomas

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/h...

If you want to understand the problem of "waste, fraud, and abuse" in federal health programs, you should read this great piece by Sarah Kliff and @bykatiethomas.bsky.social on scammy skin substitute companies. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/h...

Tiny bandages made of dried placentas are costing Medicare billions. With Sarah Kliff, I took a dive into the world of skin substitutes, which are used in a narrow slice of patients with wounds that won't heal, but cost Medicare more than ambulance rides and CT scans. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/h...

I'd like to hear from current and former employees at USDA-APHIS (esp PPQ & VS) and USDA-ARS. Happy to keep your identity confidential or even just talk off the record, if that's what you'd prefer.

You can reach me at emily.anthes@nytimes.com or on Signal at emilyanthes.41

When drug companies lowered prices for common drugs like insulin, it ended up raising costs for patients at community health clinics. It’s another example of the upside-down world of drug pricing. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/h...

For a decade, the DOJ delayed a winning criminal case against Philadelphia-based drug company Endo Health Solutions.

That allowed Endo to vastly expand its narcotics empire and execute a corporate escape plan.

New, from @propublica.org + @inquirer.com

Hospitals Gave Patients Meds During Childbirth, Then Reported Them For Positive Drug Tests

www.themarshallproject.org/2024/12/11/p...

Acadia Healthcare is 1 of America’s largest chains of psychiatric hospitals. In 12 states where they operate—dozens of patients, employees & cops have alerted the authorities that Acadia was detaining people in ways that violated the law according to 9/1/24 NYT. Now this:

Fraud and Fakery at the Largest Chain of Methadone Clinics in the U.S. Acadia Healthcare falsifies records at its methadone clinics and enrolls patients who aren’t addicted to #opioids, by @bykatiethomas.bsky.social @jsgatnyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/h... via @nytimes.com #addiction

I joined this app just to share this incredible new investigation into the fraud and fakery going on at the country’s largest chain of methadone clinics: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/h...
By the amazing @bykatiethomas.bsky.social and @jsgatnyt.bsky.social and edited by @davidenrich.bsky.social and me

New: Acadia Healthcare runs the largest chain of methadone clinics, bringing in $1.3 billion since 2022. But @jsgatnyt.bsky.social and I found that its clinics are falsifying records and sometimes enrolling patients who are not addicted to opioids. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/h...