STAT+: What Medicare Advantage enrollment could look like for next year
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STAT+: How powerful hospitals helped take R1 RCM private
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Settlement blocks diagnostics maker EpicGenetics from selling two questionable blood tests
A diagnostics company has agreed to stop selling two questionable blood tests as part of…
STAT+: Another suit filed against FDA over lab-developed test rule
A group representing molecular pathologists sued the Food and Drug Administration on Monday over its…
Opinion: Gilead must be held accountable for the harm caused by ‘patent hopping’ an HIV treatment
Gilead Sciences, a pharma company that dominates the market for HIV treatments, agreed in June…
STAT+: Wells Fargo faces class action lawsuit over workers’ high drug costs
Former employees sued Wells Fargo on Tuesday, alleging the banking giant violated federal law by…
STAT+: For-profit hospitals are getting a boost from a flood of patients
You’re reading the web version of Health Care Inc., STAT’s weekly newsletter following the flow of money…
STAT+: Medicare and Medicaid struggles foreshadow a rocky health insurer earnings season
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STAT+: Judge rules against Boehringer Ingelheim in pharma’s latest legal loss on Medicare negotiation
WASHINGTON — A federal judge ruled against Boehringer Ingelheim’s challenge to the new Medicare drug…
STAT+: Supreme Court’s gutting of Chevron doctrine could mean headaches for drug industry
The Food and Drug Administration’s power to make important regulatory decisions is in question after…
STAT+: Drug wholesaler owners indicted for alleged role in diverting Gilead and J&J HIV medicines
The owners of a drug wholesaler have been indicted for their alleged role in a…
Will Medicare finally begin covering weight loss drugs like Zepbound and Wegovy?
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Key health care topics to watch out for at the Biden-Trump debate
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The Supreme Court will consider state bans on gender-affirming care for minors
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday jumped into the fight over transgender rights, agreeing to…
STAT+: Jury orders Stanford to pay millions to employee in racial harassment case
A jury has found Stanford University and Stanford Health Care liable for millions of dollars…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about FDA approval for Sarepta drug, MSF closing access campaign and more
And so, another working week will soon draw to a close. Not a moment too…
Supreme Court outlawed segregation of disabled people 25 years ago. But change has come slowly
As a toddler, Veronica Ayala loved Fridays. At 5 o’clock sharp, her mom whisked her…
Opinion: Medical experts must step up if health justice is to enter the courtroom
Danyel Smith has served 21 years of a life sentence at Dooly Correctional Facility in…
STAT+: Former medical device CEO who sold fake plastic parts sentenced to 6 years in prison
The former CEO of Stimwave, a company that sold pain-relief devices with dummy pieces of…
With Avidity and Pfizer, gene therapy enters a phase
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Four Tops singer’s lawsuit says he visited ER for chest pain, ended up in straightjacket
When Alexander Morris, a member of the Motown group The Four Tops, visited a Detroit-area…
STAT+: Appeals court overturns Sutter Health’s victory in $400 million antitrust case
When Sutter Health was on trial for anticompetitive conduct in 2022, the San Francisco jury…
STAT+: Gilead to pay $40 million to settle claims it delayed newer HIV treatment to boost profits
Gilead Sciences agreed in principle to pay $40 million to more than 2,600 AIDS patients…
STAT+: Medicare Advantage plan’s quality ratings were incorrectly calculated by government, judge rules
The federal government inappropriately lowered the 2024 Medicare Advantage star ratings of SCAN Health Plan,…
STAT+: Leading CRO to pay record fine for badly neglecting hundreds of beagles in breeding facility
A leading contract research organization has agreed to pay $35 million — including the largest-ever…
STAT+: Novartis sues Maryland over the role of contract pharmacies in a U.S. drug discount program
Novartis has filed a lawsuit seeking to block a Maryland law that requires the company…
Wegovy linked to lower risk of alcohol use disorder in real-world study
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Maryland takes first steps to cap drug costs
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STAT+: Endo Health ordered to pay more than $1.5 billion in opioid criminal case
In the second-largest fine ever levied on a pharmaceutical company, Endo Health Solutions was ordered…
STAT+: Gilead gets a boost from California court in a case over slow-walking an HIV drug
In a boost for Gilead Sciences, the California Supreme Court agreed to review a contentious…
STAT+: Federal judge rules against two drugmakers challenging Medicare drug price negotiation program
WASHINGTON — A federal judge in New Jersey on Monday dealt a blow to two…
STAT+: Activist investor Alex Denner, Bioverativ shareholder reach tentative settlement in insider trading case
A tentative settlement has been reached in a long-running shareholder lawsuit that accused health care…
Philips will pay $1.1 billion to resolve U.S. lawsuits over breathing machines that expel debris
WASHINGTON — Medical device maker Philips said Monday it will pay $1.1 billion to settle…
STAT+: Washington kicks into gear on H5N1
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STAT+: Cerebral to pay $7 million fine and limit health data use for ads under federal order
Telehealth company Cerebral will limit the consumer health data it uses for advertising purposes under…
STAT+: FTC cracks down on telehealth addiction service Monument for sharing health data
On Thursday, the Federal Trade Commission took action against alcohol addiction telehealth company Monument, affirming…
Pfizer’s plot to win the RSV vaccine race
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Sanofi resolves most Zantac litigation
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Brazil’s plan for low-cost CAR-Ts
New biotech newsletter launching tomorrow. Don’t miss out. Good morning, everyone. Damian here with the…
STAT+: AstraZeneca sues Arkansas over the role of pharmacies in a federal discount drug program
AstraZeneca filed a lawsuit seeking to block an Arkansas law that requires the company to…
Supreme Court mifepristone arguments focus on physicians’ right to sue, not FDA judgment
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court justices on Tuesday seemed to question physician’s right to sue the…
STAT+: Amgen sues Colorado over its prescription drug affordability board
Amgen has filed a lawsuit accusing a Colorado state board of violating the U.S. Constitution…
STAT+: J&J sues former employee for allegedly taking thousands of documents to a new job at Pfizer
Johnson & Johnson has accused a long-standing employee of taking thousands of confidential files about…
STAT+: Pharma loses a key battle over a state law concerning 340B pharmacies
In a setback to the pharmaceutical industry, a U.S. appeals court has upheld an Arkansas…
STAT+: Pharma giants, government spar in court over Medicare drug price negotiation
TRENTON, N.J. — Pharma industry giants including Bristol Myers Squibb, Johnson and Johnson, Novartis, and…
STAT+: Federal judge rules against AstraZeneca in lawsuit challenging Medicare drug price negotiation
WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Delaware on Friday ruled against AstraZeneca in a case…
GSK pill works in uncomplicated gonorrhea
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Opinion: The Alabama IVF ruling uses faux scientific language to justify a religious position
Imagine having 15 miscarriages. Maybe you can shrug off the first one or two and…
STAT+: DOJ investigating Community Health Systems’ hospitals
Community Health Systems is facing a new federal probe into its hospital billing practices more…
STAT+: A lawsuit over a controversial Sanofi drug shortage is unexpectedly revived
A U.S. appeals court revived a controversial lawsuit brought by nearly two dozen people who…