Virginia’s Certificate of Public Need Process Needs a Road Map

2021-03-31

Sentara Healthcare used the convoluted system to attempt to stop a rival from opening an open-heart surgery center.

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5 Things To Know About Certificate of Public Need Laws

2021-03-25

At a time when Republican and Democratic administrations rarely agree upon anything, five of the last ones agree that COPN regulation has to go.

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Virginia State Bar Conducting Preliminary Investigation of Sentara Outside Counsel Jamie B. Martin

2021-03-19

C&BP Complaint Raises Unreported Potential Conflict of Interest, Showing Reach of Sentara Lobby Since November 2020, we’ve been probing the reach and influence of Sentara Healthcare, the powerful, $6 billion health care conglomerate that enjoys nonprofit tax status and is pursuing a $11.5 billion merger with Cone Health of North Carolina. One element of Sentara’s… Read more »

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Lobbyist Morse Doesn’t Respond to Questions about His Pro-COPN Op-Ed — But Virginian-Pilot Editor-in-Chief Worrel Does

2021-03-16

Reports from both the Obama and Trump administrations criticized how health care companies use COPN as a cudgel to beat their competitors.

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Attorney Jamie B. Martin Was “Legal Advisor” to COPN Reform Group — But Didn’t Publicly Disclose Sentara Connection

2021-03-12

C&BP Investigation Reveals a Second Time Lawyer Didn’t Publicly Disclose Her Ties to Healthcare Giant.

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Salon Reports on Our Request that McConnell Remove Graham from Senate Judiciary

2021-03-10

Georgia Sec. of State Raffensperger told CNN he felt Graham was telling him to “look hard and see how many ballots you could throw out.”

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Reader Says: “There is more than meets the eye to the issue of Sentara”

2021-03-9

As our investigations progress, we often find that some of our best insights come from readers. Please keep sending them to us.

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Who Gets the “F” Grade Now? 2 ½ Years After C&BP’s Request for Public Records, NYC Mayor De Blasio’s Folks are Still Looking

2021-03-5

NYC found 4,294 relevant emails, but we were told it would be a “burden” to give them to us. We hired a lawyer, refiled a simpler request, but we couldn’t get the emails. We trimmed our request to about 100 emails. We appealed to various elected officials. Mr. Mayor, you’re turning this into an opera!

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C&BP Files Ethics Complaint Against Judge Who Ruled in Favor of Sentara Healthcare, a Former Private Practice Client

2021-03-2

Update: Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission rejects our complaint against Judge Hall, saying it “does not intervene in pending cases…. You may refile, with a copy of the final order, “and the Commission will consider your allegation at that time.”

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