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When one of Jose Nuñez's retinas was damaged by diabetes in 2016, the Los Angeles truck driver expected his Medicaid managed care policy to coordinate treatment. But Centene, the private insurer that manages his policy, gave him the runaround, he says, and he lost sight in that eye.

Private Medicaid Plans Receive Billions In Tax Dollars, With Little Oversight

More than two-thirds of Medicaid recipients are enrolled in privately run Medicaid managed care programs. Yet the evidence is thin these contractors improve patient care or save the government money.

Team Canada Head Coach Kevin Dineen yells instructions to the ice during the first period of their game against Switzerland during 2014 Winter Olympics women's ice hockey game at Shayba Arena, Saturday, Feb. 8, 2014, in Sochi, Russia.

Ducks Name Kevin Dineen As Gulls Coach

Dineen succeeds Dallas Eakins, who was promoted in June to coach the Ducks after coaching the Gulls throughout their first four seasons in the American Hockey League.

Neodosha, Kan., has a population of 2,300. A wealthy donor has promised to pay college tuition for students who live in the town.

Wealthy Donor Promises College Tuition To Help Spur Growth In Hometown

A retired businessman hoping to save his shrinking hometown launched a "Promise" program to pay college tuition for its students, but his plan might simply shift people around among dwindling towns.

A pharmacist gives Jennifer Haller a shot in the first-stage safety clinical trial of a potential vaccine for COVID-19 on March 16 at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle. U.S. officials say they are already seeing efforts by foreign actors to steal information from U.S. firms working on a vaccine and treatments for the virus.

U.S. Officials: Beware Of China And Others Trying To Steal COVID-19 Research

Chinese nationals have been charged with stealing U.S. medical technology in many recent cases. As U.S. firms race to find a coronavirus vaccine, U.S. authorities tell companies to safeguard research.

Ernestine Mann, here in a family photo, moved into the Arbor Terrace at Cascade assisted living facility in Atlanta in 2019. Mann was one of the residents who died of COVID-19 this year when there was an outbreak at the facility.

In Atlanta, A Wave Of Coronavirus Deaths And The Questions Left In Its Wake

At least 17 residents at an assisted living home in Atlanta died of COVID-19 this spring. It is the company's only home in Georgia in a Black neighborhood and the only one to suffer a severe outbreak.

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar led a press briefing Tuesday laying out the agency's strategy for preventing the novel form of coronavirus from taking hold in the U.S.

US Beefs Up Screening Of Travelers For New Virus From China

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar says worry about the virus should not impact Americans' day-to-day lives. So far there are five confirmed cases of the virus in the U.S. and no sign they have spread the illness to those around them.

U.S. Census Bureau worker Marisela Gonzales adjusts a sign at a walk-up counting site for the 2020 census in Greenville, Texas, in July.

The Census Scales Back A Critical Step: Checking Its Own Work

With just three months to review the 2020 census results because of a last-minute change by the Trump administration, Census Bureau officials are scrambling to decide what quality checks to toss out.

Steve Wynn, CEO of Wynn Resorts, attends a news conference held by President Trump in the East Room of the White House in July. The president was touting a decision by Apple supplier Foxconn to invest $10 billion to build a factory in Wisconsin that produces LCD panels.

Steve Wynn Resigns As Head Of Wynn Resorts Amid Sexual Misconduct Allegations

The accusations against the 76-year-old billionaire who owns casinos in Las Vegas and the Chinese territory of Macau were first published last month by The Wall Street Journal.

Danisch Farooqi with his daughter Aaliya in Hamburg. "I haven't seen her in five years," he says. He wonders if she has forgotten him.

'I Would Do Anything For Her': A German Dad's Search For His Daughter, Taken By ISIS

A German father fights to find and bring home his young daughter, taken by his ex-wife when she went to Syria five years ago with her new husband, an ISIS fighter.

FRONTLINE: In The Age Of AI

Airs Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV & Thursday, Nov. 7 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2

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