Insurance

Hospitals Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: Extensive review finds private equity owners jack up the cost of medical care

Hospitals Tara Bannow and Bob Herman

STAT Plus: DOJ, FTC primed for more aggressive scrutiny of health care mergers

Hospitals Bob Herman

STAT Plus: States increasingly look to regulate hospital facility fees

Exclusive Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Blue Cross Blue Shield plans in California evaded $170 million in taxes, whistleblower says

Insurance Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: Demand spikes in seniors, behavioral health care challenge UnitedHealth’s provider arm

Business Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Blue Cross Blue Shield insurers keep winning from Affordable Care Act’s risk program

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Bright Health sells Medicare Advantage plans to Molina for $600 million

Politics John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: Protesters slam health insurance lobby for Medicare Advantage coverage restrictions

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: UnitedHealth wins $3.3 billion takeover of home health giant Amedisys

Health Simar Bajaj

‘We fail people’: New data on disparities in Medicaid access to opioid addiction treatment

Politics Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: Sen. Grassley calls on GOP leaders to rally support for PBM reforms

A STAT Investigation Bob Herman

STAT Plus: ‘It’s beyond unethical’: Opaque conflicts of interest permeate prescription drug benefits

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Health insurance stocks tumble after UnitedHealth says Medicare enrollees are getting more care

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Fed up with exorbitant health costs, employers and workers are taking insurers to court

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: UnitedHealth starts bidding war with $3.3 billion offer for Amedisys

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: How Blue Cross Blue Shield insurers ratcheted up profits in 2022

Health Angus Chen

After outcry, UnitedHealthcare softens prior authorization policy for colonoscopies

Health Elaine Chen

STAT Plus: Insurance alone didn’t guarantee adherence to Ozempic, study finds

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: CVS warns PBM reforms ‘could lead to higher costs’

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Matt Eyles, CEO of America’s Health Insurance Plans, to depart

Politics Bob Herman and Casey Ross

Senators probing largest Medicare Advantage plans over how algorithms factor in care denials

Hospitals Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Hospital-insurer tussle in Arizona puts care denials front and center

Health Angus Chen

‘Stunning’ change to United’s colonoscopy coverage roils physicians and patients

Health Care Inc. Bob Herman

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

Hospitals Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Geisinger board member: Local consolidation influenced Kaiser-Geisinger deal

Insurance Carrie Arnold

‘Patients are not hot potatoes’: How the fight over dialysis coverage is putting kidney failure patients at risk

Business Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Option Care takes over Amedisys in ‘perplexing’ $3.6 billion home care deal

Politics John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: Disagreements and digs upend an otherwise bipartisan hearing on PBM reform

Hospitals Bob Herman

STAT Plus: New mega-deal highlights Geisinger’s fall, and raises concerns about where Kaiser is going next