Doctors Must Pay for Privilege of Getting Paid (Newser Deep Dive)

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August 26, 2023     Doctors Must Pay for Privilege of Getting Paid For those who complain that doctors have a knack for coming up with inventive fees, ProPublica has a shoe-on-the-other-foot narrative that illustrates the shady nature of the healthcare billing industry. It seems that most doctors have to pay a fee for the privilege of getting paid. Keep reading   Her Name Was Unique. The Dangers She Faced Were 'Common' When Monica Hesse was a young reporter, she covered the story of Unique Harris, a 24-year-old single mom of two young boys who vanished from her DC apartment in October 2010, while she was hosting a sleepover for her kids and their 9-year-old cousin. It was a case that went cold for over a decade—until a break came and a suspect was convicted for her murder, despite the fact that no body was ever found. Keep reading   From our sponsors:   Much of the Appalachian Trail Isn't Where It Once Was The hikers who tackle the Appalachian Trail are anything but stationary—and as it turns out, the trail itself is anything but stationary as well. Writing for the Washington Post, Lizzie Johnson and Lauren Tierney take a fascinating dive into the continually transforming trail, which originally numbered 2,050 miles when it was completed in 1937 and now clocks in at nearly 2,200. Keep reading   Americans Return a Mind-Boggling Amount of Stuff More than a century ago, JC Penney pioneered the concept of no-questions-asked returns. Even so, the return rate was maybe 2%, writes David Owen in the New Yorker. Keep reading   They Headed to an Epic 1973 Concert, Then Vanished A pair of vanished teens are the "oldest missing-teen cases in the country," and Rolling Stone explores the mystery on the 50th anniversary of the case. Eric J. Greenberg writes that an estimated 600,000 fans set out for the Summer Jam concert at the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Raceway in New York state in late July 1973. Keep reading   From our sponsors   I Was Warned in 2018: 'Do Not Get Into That Sub' "But like screaming at the screen, nothing that came out of anyone's mouth made any difference to the ending." So writes Susan Casey in her in-depth look for Vanity Fair about what happened to the Titan submersible. Keep reading   From the Archives 5 Survivors Got Into the Dinghy, Then Noticed the Sharks Forty years later, Brad Cavanagh is still trying to process what happened to him on the high seas when he was a 21-year-old sailor. In Boston Magazine, Kevin Koczwara tells the harrowing tale. Keep reading   From Our Sponsors Manage your subscriptions  |  Unsubscribe from Newser emails  |  Privacy Policy We'd love to hear from you. Send us a note at feedback@newser.com. Newser, LLC  |  1395 Brickell Avenue  |  Suite 800  |  Miami, Florida  |  33131 © 2023 Newser, LLC. All rights reserved