Opinion: What STAT readers think about octogenarian presidents
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STAT+: DOJ investigating Community Health Systems’ hospitals
Community Health Systems is facing a new federal probe into its hospital billing practices more…
Colorado could cap payments for Amgen’s Enbrel
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Opinion: How Medicare leaves Puerto Ricans behind
When I accompany my father to his regular cardiologist appointment in Puerto Rico, worry and…
Medicare Advantage’s 33 million club
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Opinion: New CMS rules will throttle access researchers need to Medicare, Medicaid data
Groundbreaking research more than a decade ago showed that almost one-fifth of people enrolled in…
STAT+: Banning surprise medical bills is raising costs elsewhere
Without question, the new federal law banning surprise billing is achieving its goal of protecting…
STAT+: Medicare Advantage enrollment races past 33 million
Roughly 33.4 million adults older than 65 and people with disabilities were enrolled in a…
Listen: Pharma goes to Washington, Alnylam’s future, & Gilead’s dealmaking
Has PhRMA lost its fangs? Are 11th-hour changes ominous for clinical trials? And what’s next…
STAT+: Lawmakers eye partial increase for Medicare doctor pay
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers are considering increasing doctors’ Medicare pay in an upcoming government funding package,…
STAT+: Private equity investment in Medicare Advantage drops
Major insurance companies like UnitedHealthcare and Humana have edged out private equity firms from investing…
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STAT+: Judge tosses PhRMA lawsuit over Medicare power to negotiate drug prices
WASHINGTON — A federal district judge on Monday granted the Biden administration’s request to dismiss…
No one’s pleased with the government’s pitch for 2025 Medicare Advantage rates
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Opinion: What STAT readers think about Aduhelm, CTE and the Super Bowl, and more
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STAT+: Senators start work on Medicare physician payment reform
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of senators is starting work on legislation to reform how…
STAT+: Senate Democrats push for stronger rules around AI in Medicare Advantage
Senate Democrats on Thursday said Medicare should take more urgent and aggressive action to prevent…
In a showy hearing, Bernie Sanders gets few answers about lower drug prices
WASHINGTON — Call it Sen. Bernie Sanders’ prescription drug pricing theater. The hearing, featuring Merck…
New pharma CEOs in the hot seat
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STAT+: Government warns Medicare Advantage insurers not to deny care based on AI
In recent months, the federal government has repeatedly told Medicare Advantage insurers that they cannot…
STAT+: Medicare threatens to pull funding from HCA’s embattled Mission Hospital
Five years after investor-owned HCA Healthcare took over an esteemed nonprofit hospital in North Carolina,…
CDC and social media: The new misinformation war
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STAT+: The lone Democrat willing to weaken Medicare’s power to negotiate drug prices
WASHINGTON — Two Republican lawmakers who introduced legislation to water down the Inflation Reduction Act’s…
Let the Medicare Advantage lobbying begin
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STAT+: New Medicare Advantage rule is boon for providers, drag on insurers
Starting this year, private Medicare plans have to cover their members’ hospitalizations at the higher…
STAT+: Devoted Health’s losses in Medicare Advantage persist
Devoted Health has been one of the most prominent health insurance and provider startups of…
STAT+: Senate working group proposes 340B reforms
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of senators released a draft of legislation to resolve controversial…
Opinion: Medicare has different standards than the FDA. That’s how it should be
Who among us is looking forward to getting older in 2024? Not senators (most of…
Medicare drug price negotiation’s day in court
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STAT+: Biden administration makes opening offers in Medicare drug price negotiations
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is making its opening offers to pharmaceutical companies in its…
STAT+: Medicare Advantage insurers face slight proposed cut to 2025 payments
The federal government is cutting the average benchmark payments for 2025 Medicare Advantage plans by…
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STAT+: Judge skeptical of arguments against Medicare drug price negotiation
WILMINGTON, Del. — Today was the first time that a federal judge asked questions in-person…
Cigna to sell Medicare Advantage plans to Blue Cross Blue Shield insurer for $3.3 billion
Cigna is officially exiting the Medicare business, agreeing to sell all of its Medicare insurance…
STAT+: Merck, Johnson & Johnson CEOs agree to testify in Congress on high drug prices, avoiding Bernie Sanders’ subpoena
WASHINGTON — Merck CEO Robert Davis and Johnson and Johnson CEO Joaquin Duato have agreed…
STAT+: Democrats urge government to rein in Medicare Advantage overpayments and denials
The Biden administration is about to set the ground rules for next year’s Medicare Advantage…
Merck CEO refused to testify in Senate because he’s not an expert in drug pricing, Bernie Sanders says
WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday jabbed the CEO of Merck for telling congressional…
Bernie Sanders’ showdown with pharma CEOs is coming to a head
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STAT+: Humana projects a tough road for Medicare Advantage, sinking its stock
Humana’s Medicare Advantage business is faring even worse than the company let on last week,…
Ahead of Medicare drug price reform, pharma’s drug pricing has a Streisand effect
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White House pharmacy under the microscope
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STAT+: Pharma’s attack on Medicare drug price negotiation might benefit Biden
WASHINGTON — Pharmaceutical companies are doing anything they can to stop President Biden’s Medicare program…
Medicare Advantage update pushes Wall Street to reset expectations
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STAT+: Bernie Sanders proposes subpoenas of CEOs of J&J, Merck on drug prices
WASHINGTON — Senate health committee chair Bernie Sanders has taken a step toward subpoenaing the…
STAT+: Congress’ negotiations over doc pay, health centers fell apart ahead of spending extension
WASHINGTON — Negotiations to add extra health care policies to Congress’ stopgap funding bill fell…
The state of Medicare Advantage, in one chart
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Health care negotiations on Capitol Hill are clear as mud
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STAT+: Could private equity be the future of private practice? A new lobbying group thinks so
Private equity gets a bad rap in health care. But some doctors see that kind…
STAT+: Fiery MedPAC meeting highlights massive overpayments in Medicare Advantage
Medicare Advantage is arguably the most controversial health care program right now — a sentiment…
STAT+: Courts will decide the future of Medicare’s power to negotiate drug prices within months
WASHINGTON — Pharmaceutical companies’ efforts to scuttle President Biden’s signature health care achievement, empowering Medicare…
Anthony Fauci talked Covid in Congress in a nine-hour, closed-door grilling — and that was just day one
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STAT+: HHS’s Xavier Becerra, once an ‘invisible’ secretary, is racing to cement a clearer legacy
WASHINGTON — He’s been called the “invisible” secretary. So far removed from the White House…