STAT+: Federal Medicaid officials cajole states to auto-enroll beneficiaries as huge coverage losses loom
WASHINGTON — Federal Medicaid officials are working unusually closely with states to avoid enrollment glitches…
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Town Hall Ventures’ Andy Slavitt on how to invest in Medicaid and health tech
SAN FRANCISCO — Part of Andy Slavitt’s core mission at Town Hall Ventures is proving…
STAT+: 3 trends to watch in hospitals and health insurance in 2023
For almost three years, hospitals and health insurers have been riding the waves of the…
After nine months, an update on NIH’s long Covid research
You’re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and…
Amid dire maternal mortality rates, Congress falls short on Medicaid postpartum care
Last week, the state of Texas issued a long-awaited report that found at least 118…
Congress reaches major health policy deal on Medicare, Medicaid, and pandemic preparedness
WASHINGTON — Leaders in Congress have reached a sweeping deal to ease Medicare pay cuts to…
Opinion: Ensuring food security and health beyond the Covid-19 public health emergency
Expansions to social safety net programs during Covid-19 have been essential for low-income Americans hit…
STAT+: Health plans say texting could help reach underserved patients. But a federal rule is getting in their way
Health plans trying to reach low-income and underserved customers say they’re being stymied by a…
Opinion: Hospital financing in black and white
During our training as doctors, we have rotated through safety-net hospitals, elite academic medical centers,…
DHS issues rule to revise Trump’s ‘public charge’ policy, easing access to health services for immigrants
The Department of Homeland Security on Thursday issued a new rule to revise a Trump…
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STAT+: How North Carolina hospitals justify thwarting Medicaid expansion
North Carolina hospitals just helped kill a major expansion of the state’s Medicaid program. Both…
Opinion: Pursuit of profits is driving drug companies to break the 340B law
Seventeen drug companies, including some of the world’s largest, are flouting a 30-year-old federal program…
Opinion: Making Medicare, Medicaid innovation tests voluntary undermines evaluation opportunities
The U.S. health care system is often inefficient, ineffective, and inequitable. Compared to other high-income…
Opinion: Averting the looming purge of people from Medicaid
Up to 16 million Americans on Medicaid, the federal-state program that provides health care to…
Opinion: Report: U.S. nursing home care is ineffective, inefficient, inequitable, fragmented, and unsustainable
Nursing homes have been at the epicenter of the pandemic, though they have fallen off…
Opinion: Home care instead of hospital care: Congress should extend a crucial waiver
Hospitals can be places of healing and, at times, harm, particularly for older adults with…
Opinion: How to fix the two-tier U.S. health payment system
How the U.S. pays for health care is neither efficient nor fair. Despite spending an…
STAT+: Oregon wants to get out of covering drugs like Aduhelm in Medicaid
WASHINGTON — Oregon is gearing up to ask the Biden administration if its Medicaid program…
Opinion: People in states without Medicaid expansion can’t wait any longer to build back better
Lawmakers are in the midst of deliberations over the Build Back Better Act, a landmark…
STAT+: 5 health tech startups targeting the Medicaid population to watch
When it comes to new opportunities, health tech companies tend to follow the money. That…
Opinion: Much Adu(helm) about nothing: New Alzheimer’s drug threatens state Medicaid budgets
A new drug that was supposed to be a lifeline for thousands of individuals and…
Opinion: My aunt’s ‘Kafkaesque journey’ to get the home care she needed
As an attorney who has concentrated in elder law and long-term care rights for more…
STAT+: Biogen’s new Alzheimer’s drug could cost Medicaid up to $2.2 billion a year
A pricey new Alzheimer’s drug already mired in controversy could cost Medicaid anywhere from $720…
STAT+: Centene to pay $143 million to two states to settle allegations of overcharging Medicaid
Centene (CNC), a major health insurer, agreed to pay a combined $143 million to Ohio…
STAT+: Biden’s Medicaid pressure tactics could put his team at odds with hospitals
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is pressuring states to expand Medicaid — and it’s setting…
Opinion: Congress should end dialysis companies’ third-party games with insurance coverage
The Covid-19 relief bill that President Joe Biden signed into law in March temporarily expanded…
Top Senate Republican holds up Biden’s CMS nominee over Texas Medicaid waiver
WASHINGTON — A top Senate Republican is holding up the confirmation of President Biden’s nominee…
STAT+: Federal agency says pharma should pay higher Medicaid rebates if certain trials aren’t finished on time
In a bid to lower prescription drug costs, a federal agency is recommending pharmaceutical companies…
STAT+: Tennessee to become the first state to run a closed Medicaid drug formulary
In a first-of-its-kind move, the Trump administration will allow Tennessee officials to restrict medicines covered…
STAT+: Health tech’s newest unicorn is running toward Medicaid patients long marginalized in medicine
It has become a business imperative in American medicine to marginalize patients on Medicaid. Their…
Opinion: Advice for the next CMS administrator’s first 100 days
This week four years ago, I was working for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid…
Opinion: CMS’s new rules on organ donation and transplantation ‘will bring chaos’
The United States had a once-in-a-generation opportunity to save countless additional lives each year by…
Opinion: Medicaid needs to change its archaic rules for women seeking permanent contraception
For many women who don’t want to have more children, childbirth offers a safe and…
Opinion: Invest in community-based organizations to put health dollars where they are really needed
If it wasn’t already clear that the U.S. does a poor job of investing in…
‘I cant imagine going back’: Medicare leader calls for expanded telehealth access after Covid-19
President Trump’s top Medicare official said Tuesday that expanded access to telemedicine should continue after…
STAT Plus: Mallinckrodt loses a court case and is told to pay $650 million in overdue Medicaid rebates
In a setback to Mallinckrodt (MNK), a federal court judge upheld a move by the…
Opinion: Super Tuesday results suggest that Americans ‘aren’t looking for big structural changes’ in health care
Voters on Tuesday sent several messages, including a key one about health care. Big ideas…
Opinion: Trump’s immigration policies will make the coronavirus pandemic worse
Pandemics have a way of testing us. Throughout history, societies have responded to plagues by…
Justice Department sues Mallinckrodt over ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’ in Medicaid rebates
A simmering feud between the federal government and Mallinckrodt (MNK) took a new turn as…
STAT Plus: PBMs favor their own pharmacies in the Florida Medicaid program
As angst rises over the prices paid for medicines, a new analysis finds some pharmacy…
STAT Plus: U.S. officials will let Novartis pay expenses for some Kymriah patients who must travel for treatment
In an unexpected move, the Department of Health and Human Services will allow Novartis (NVS)…
Opinion: Medicaid covers sick or dying children. But it takes ‘going to battle’ to get it
One of the first things that happens when you find out your child has a…