Category: Health Care Inc.

STAT+: What Medicare Advantage enrollment could look like for next year

September 16, 2024 STAT Off Biotech, Business, government agencies, Health, Health Care Inc., hospitals, Human Health, insurance, legal, Life Sciences, Medicare, Medicine, policy, Science and Research, STAT+

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STAT+: How powerful hospitals helped take R1 RCM private

September 9, 2024 STAT Off Biotech, Business, government agencies, Health Care Inc., hospitals, Human Health, insurance, legal, Life Sciences, Medicine, policy, Science and Research, STAT+

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Patient volumes have stormed back into hospitals

August 19, 2024 STAT Off Biotech, Health Care Inc., hospitals, Human Health, Life Sciences, Medicare, Medicine, mergers, Science and Research

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STAT+: For-profit hospitals are getting a boost from a flood of patients

July 29, 2024 STAT Off Biotech, Business, drug development, government agencies, Health Care Inc., health insurance, hospitals, Human Health, insurance, legal, Life Sciences, Medicine, policy, Science and Research, STAT+

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STAT+: Medicare and Medicaid struggles foreshadow a rocky health insurer earnings season

July 22, 2024 STAT Off Biotech, drug development, government agencies, Health Care Inc., Human Health, insurance, legal, Life Sciences, Medicine, policy, Science and Research, STAT+

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STAT+: Medicare pay proposals are good news for health tech, bad news for docs

July 15, 2024 STAT Off Biotech, Business, CMS, Health Care Inc., hospitals, Human Health, Life Sciences, Medicaid, Medicare, Medicine, physicians, Science and Research, STAT+

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STAT+: Pulling back the curtain on psychiatric hospital joint ventures

July 8, 2024 STAT Off Biotech, Health Care Inc., hospitals, Human Health, Life Sciences, Medicare, Medicine, Science and Research, STAT+, Supreme Court

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STAT+: Why health care spending keeps climbing

June 17, 2024 STAT Off Biotech, Health Care Inc., health insurance, hospitals, Human Health, Life Sciences, medicare advantage, Medicine, Science and Research, STAT+

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STAT+: Humana scores a win in a Medicare Advantage case

June 10, 2024 STAT Off Biotech, Health Care Inc., health insurance, hospitals, Human Health, Life Sciences, Medicare, Medicine, Science and Research, STAT+

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STAT+: A short-lived Medicaid freakout sends insurers’ stocks diving

June 3, 2024 STAT Off artificial intelligence, Biotech, health care costs, Health Care Inc., health insurance, hospitals, Human Health, Life Sciences, Medicare, Medicine, Science and Research, STAT+

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STAT+: Class action against UnitedHealth asks about DOJ probe transparency

May 20, 2024 STAT Off Biotech, FTC, Health Care Inc., hospitals, Human Health, Life Sciences, Medicare, Medicine, Science and Research, STAT+

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STAT+: The stories that shaped our understanding of the health care system

May 13, 2024 STAT Off Biotech, health care costs, Health Care Inc., hospitals, Human Health, Life Sciences, Medicare, Medicine, Science and Research, STAT+

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STAT+: UnitedHealth CEO downplays his company’s control over physicians

May 6, 2024 STAT Off Biotech, Health Care Inc., health insurance, hospitals, Human Health, Life Sciences, Medicaid, Medicare, Medicine, Science and Research, STAT+

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STAT+: Biden administration boosts some Medicaid payments to match commercial rates

April 29, 2024 STAT Off Biotech, FTC, health care costs, Health Care Inc., hospitals, Human Health, Life Sciences, Medicaid, Medicine, Science and Research, STAT+

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UnitedHealth ghosts Congress on Change cyberattack — for now

April 22, 2024 STAT Off Biotech, Business, Health Care Inc., health insurance, hospitals, Human Health, Life Sciences, Medicine, Science and Research

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Medicare expects a big spike in spending on Leqembi

April 15, 2024 STAT Off Alzheimer’s, Biotech, finance, Health Care Inc., hospitals, Human Health, Life Sciences, Medicare, Medicine, physicians, Science and Research

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HCA’s charity care filings are on hyperdrive

April 8, 2024 STAT Off Biotech, CMS, finance, Health Care Inc., hospitals, Human Health, insurance, Life Sciences, Medicare, Medicine, nurses, Science and Research

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Why a bill meant to stop surprise medical bills hasn’t worked

April 1, 2024 STAT Off Biotech, cancer, Congress, health care costs, Health Care Inc., health insurance, hospitals, Human Health, Life Sciences, Medicine, physicians, Science and Research

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Medicare Advantage’s 33 million club

February 20, 2024 STAT Off Biotech, CMS, Health Care Inc., health insurance, hospitals, Human Health, Life Sciences, Medicare, medicare advantage, Medicine, physicians, Science and Research

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No one’s pleased with the government’s pitch for 2025 Medicare Advantage rates

February 12, 2024 STAT Off Biotech, CMS, Congress, Health Care Inc., hospitals, Human Health, insurance, Life Sciences, Medicare, medicare advantage, Medicine, physicians, policy, Science and Research

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Let the Medicare Advantage lobbying begin

February 5, 2024 STAT Off Biotech, CMS, Congress, Health Care Inc., health insurance, HHS, hospitals, Human Health, Life Sciences, Medicare, medicare advantage, Medicine, policy, Science and Research

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Medicare Advantage update pushes Wall Street to reset expectations

January 22, 2024 STAT Off Biotech, Business, finance, Health Care Inc., health insurance, hospitals, Human Health, Life Sciences, Medicare, medicare advantage, Medicine, physicians, policy, Science and Research, White House

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The state of Medicare Advantage, in one chart

January 16, 2024 STAT Off Biotech, Congress, Health Care Inc., health insurance, hospitals, Human Health, insurance, JPM 2024, Life Sciences, Medicare, Medicine, PBMs, policy, Politics, Science and Research

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UnitedHealth’s next physician acquisition & the January health insurance churn

January 8, 2024 STAT Off Biotech, Business, finance, Health Care Inc., health insurance, HHS, hospitals, Human Health, Life Sciences, Medicine, PBMs, physicians, Science and Research

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UnitedHealth’s rehab restrictions, Texas medical school drama, and health care’s biggest profits

January 2, 2024 STAT Off Biotech, Business, Health Care Inc., health insurance, hospitals, Human Health, insurance, Life Sciences, Medicare, Medicine, PBMs, Pharmaceuticals, physicians, policy, Science and Research, states

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STAT+: Complications spiked 25% in hospitals bought by private equity

December 26, 2023 STAT Off Biotech, Business, Health Care Inc., health insurance, hospitals, Human Health, Life Sciences, Medicine, physicians, private equity, Science and Research, STAT+

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There’s ample evidence that private equity buyouts in health care drive up costs. A new…

Is there a bigger move being planned at Cigna?

November 13, 2023 STAT Off Biotech, finance, Health Care Inc., health insurance, hospitals, Human Health, Life Sciences, Medicine, physicians, Science and Research

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What’s next in the Kaiser Permanente strike

October 10, 2023 STAT Off Biotech, finance, Health Care Inc., health insurance, hospitals, Human Health, Life Sciences, Medicare, Medicine, policy, Science and Research

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The stability of $0 premiums in Medicare Advantage

October 2, 2023 STAT Off Biotech, CMS, Health Care Inc., health insurance, hospitals, Human Health, insurance, Life Sciences, Medicare, Medicine, physicians, policy, Science and Research

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Kaiser Permanente workers announce an official strike date

September 25, 2023 STAT Off Biotech, finance, FTC, Health Care Inc., hospitals, Human Health, insurance, Life Sciences, Medicaid, Medicare, Medicine, PBMs, Science and Research

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Gail Wilensky on the Geisinger deal, the earnings bonanza, and medical credit cards proliferate

May 8, 2023 STAT Off Biotech, finance, Health Care Inc., hospitals, Human Health, insurance, Life Sciences, Medicare, Medicine, physicians, Politics, Science and Research

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Opinion: Upcoding: one reason Medicare Advantage companies pay clinicians to make home health checkups

January 19, 2023 STAT Off Biotech, First Opinion, Health Care Inc., Human Health, insurance, Life Sciences, Medicare, Medicine, Science and Research

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At the start of 2023, an estimated 2.5 million Americans age 65 and older began…

Opinion: FTC’s proposed ban on noncompete agreements could be a game changer for some physicians

January 11, 2023 STAT Off Biotech, First Opinion, Health Care Inc., Human Health, Life Sciences, Medicine, physicians, Science and Research

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The last two decades have been a period of declining economic influence for practicing physicians….

Opinion: Hospice care needs saving

December 14, 2022 STAT Off advocacy, Biotech, end of life, First Opinion, Health Care Inc., Human Health, Life Sciences, Medicine, Science and Research

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Hospice in America is gravely ill. An extensive investigation jointly published by The New Yorker…

Medicare’s midterm punts, MA marketing schemes, and a closer look at the Abiomed deal

November 7, 2022 STAT Off Biotech, campaigns, Congress, finance, Health Care Inc., health technology, hospitals, Human Health, insurance, Joe Biden, Life Sciences, Medicare, Medicine, policy, Science and Research

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Medicare Advantage boosterism, providers’ surprise billing savior in Texas, and a health insurance firewall

September 26, 2022 STAT Off Biotech, Health Care Inc., hospitals, Human Health, insurance, insurers, legal, Life Sciences, Medicare, Medicine, physicians, Science and Research

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A teaching hospital payout, Humana flirts with Wall Street, and new dialysis incentives

September 19, 2022 STAT Off Biotech, Business, finance, Health Care Inc., hospitals, Human Health, insurance, Life Sciences, Medicare, Medicine, Politics, Science and Research

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Raising a RUC-kus, Blues’ antitrust deal appealed, & a UAE deal

September 12, 2022 STAT Off Biotech, finance, Health Care Inc., hospitals, Human Health, insurance, legal, Life Sciences, Medicare, Medicine, physicians, Science and Research

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Surprise billing legal limbo & device price persuasion

August 30, 2022 STAT Off Biotech, Health Care Inc., hospitals, Human Health, insurers, Life Sciences, medical devices, Medicine, physicians, Science and Research

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Private equity’s latest fixation & the ACA subsidy spigot

August 15, 2022 STAT Off Biotech, Congress, finance, Health Care Inc., hospitals, Human Health, Life Sciences, Medicine, Obamacare, physicians, Science and Research, White House

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A lobbying frenzy over surprise billing, employer dialysis questions, and a big broker throwdown

August 8, 2022 STAT Off Biotech, Congress, Health Care Inc., hospitals, Human Health, insurers, Life Sciences, Medicare, Medicine, physicians, Science and Research

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Wall Street’s love affair with insurers, hospitals pressure Medicare, and swimming in a risk pool

August 1, 2022 STAT Off Biotech, Health Care Inc., hospitals, Human Health, insurance, Life Sciences, Medicare, Medicine, physicians, providers, Science and Research

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Patients’ new credit card crunch, Amazon’s getting serious, and inflation has entered the chat

July 25, 2022 STAT Off Biotech, finance, Health Care Inc., Health Tech, hospitals, Human Health, insurers, Life Sciences, Medicare, Medicine, physicians, Science and Research

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A CEO pay bonanza, how much the rank and file are paid, and a wilderness therapy rabbit hole

July 18, 2022 STAT Off Biotech, biotechnology, Health Care Inc., Health Tech, hospitals, Human Health, insurance, Life Sciences, Medicine, Pharma, physicians, Science and Research

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