Dentists and lactation consultants around the country are pushing “tongue-tie releases” on new mothers struggling to breastfeed.

New York’s Bellevue Hospital performs thousands of the lucrative surgeries a year, even on Rikers Island prisoners and other inappropriate patients.

Medical device makers have bankrolled a cottage industry of doctors and clinics that perform artery-clearing procedures that can lead to amputations.

More surgeons are opting for a complicated hernia repair that they learned from videos on social media showing shoddy techniques.

Doctors said the nonprofit hospital pressured them to give preferential treatment to donors, trustees, politicians, and their friends and families.

Bon Secours Mercy Health, a major nonprofit health system, used the poverty of Richmond Community Hospital’s patients to tap into a lucrative federal drug program.

With the help of the McKinsey consulting firm, the Providence hospital system trained its staff to wring money out of patients, even those who should have been eligible for free care.

Doctors at the Allina Health System, a wealthy nonprofit in the Midwest, aren’t allowed to see poor patients or children with too many unpaid medical bills.

Ascension, one of the country’s largest nonprofit hospital chains, spent years cutting nursing staff, leaving it flat-footed when hit by a once-in-a-century pandemic.

At least 21 percent of nursing home residents are on antipsychotic drugs, a Times investigation found. (AHCJ award winner)

Thousands of problems identified by state inspectors were never publicly disclosed because of a secretive appeals process, a Times investigation found. (AHCJ award winner)