The mainstream press finds national stories right in the UCG newsroom.

The St. Petersburg Times published a penetrating look at the controversial spinal decompression industry on the front of its Sunday business section on July 17, 2006. UCG’s Anesthesia & Pain Coder’s Pink Sheet, published by DecisionHealth, broke the story in a December special report, revealing that misleading coding advice could be costing insurers and Medicare more than $67 million in fraudulent claims.

The Florida newspaper gave credit to the Coder’s Pink Sheet, quoting from the investigative report.

UCG's journalists add their own imprint to the biggest national stories of the year.

Hurricane Katrina, which slammed into the oil-rich U.S. Gulf Coast in the morning hours of Aug. 29, 2005, was the biggest national story ever to affect oil prices. No news outlet covered it better than UCG's Oil Price Information Service.

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Beginning at 3 a.m. that Monday-hours before the hurricane made landfall, and continuing non-stop for days-the OPIS team produced a stream of groundbreaking news alerts, analyses and exclusives. One testament to their ownership of the story: OPIS was cited 253 times by other news outlets in the first week after the storm. Whether it was Tom Kloza appearing on the CBS Early Morning Show, or Ben Brockwell on CNN, or Mary Welge on National Public Radio, OPIS's editors were the experts other journalists were calling for information. OPIS journalists were quoted from coast to coast, from the New York Daily News to the Chicago Tribune to the Los Angeles Times-and even in the London Sunday Telegraph.

The corporate scandal at WorldCom was the biggest global business story of 2002, and it made front page headlines across the world.

Did you know that a UCG journalist broke the original story?

Months before WorldCom filed for bankruptcy, CCMI editor Jonathan Stern discovered that the telecom giant was systematically defrauding its customers, overstating its revenue and leaving itself with billions of dollars in debt it could never pay back.

"WorldCom says it is in no danger of bankruptcy, but here are the numbers," Stern revealed in the May 20, 2002 issue of The Telecom Manager's Voice Report, laying out in extraordinary detail a story that the mainstream media had missed.

He interviewed 27 WorldCom customers, collected reams of documentation and coaxed reluctant WorldCom insiders to talk. He put the pieces together over several months, then put together an 8-page special report on WorldCom's billing practices.

Stern's revelations helped spur the largest reform of corporate America since the Depression. His story was followed by the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times, and he was asked to testify before Congress. Citing journalistic ethics, he declined. The Society of Professional Journalists awarded Stern the public service award for newsletter journalism. Stern is now a publisher in DecisionHealth.