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Politics Rachel Cohrs

STAT Plus: Republican ideas to reform Medicare could rile health care industry

Insurance Bob Herman

Medicare is going to cap patients’ spending on drugs. But there’s no such limit for hospital or doctor bills

Exclusive Mario Aguilar

STAT Plus: Large insurer’s decision to cover some prescription digital therapies may be a milestone for app makers

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Justice Department sues Cigna for allegedly exaggerating conditions of Medicare Advantage members

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Bright exits ACA health insurance marketplaces to stay afloat

Health Tech Mohana Ravindranath

STAT Plus: Health plans say texting could help reach underserved patients. But a federal rule is getting in their way

Exclusive Rachel Cohrs

STAT Plus: Medicare tasks a senior adviser with staffing its new drug pricing division

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Errors have plagued insurance directories of doctors. The government wants to clean them up with its own

Politics Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Get a Ph.D. in health policy — from a single Powerpoint slide

First Opinion Elise Amez-Droz and Phillip Phan

Better use of health savings accounts: lessons from Singapore

Health Care Inc. Bob Herman

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

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Health insurers are painting a misleading picture of Medicare Advantage savings, experts say

Health Care Inc. Bob Herman

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

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Humana appeases Wall Street with big projections of Medicare Advantage growth

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Home Depot, other employers appeal Blue Cross Blue Shield antitrust settlement

Insurance Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: UnitedHealth signs a deal with Walmart for a new Medicare Advantage plan

Insurance Bob Herman

Judge invalidates parts of the ACA that mandate health coverage of many preventive services and drugs

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Doctors, seniors groups flag concerns with Medicare Advantage

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Bright Health Group heads toward insolvency as it rushes to raise more cash

Business Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Health care industry swarms Washington as surprise billing rules get ironed out

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: UnitedHealth Group says Medicare Advantage saves money, but the data say otherwise

Business Bob Herman

STAT Plus: HCA Healthcare, Cigna chiefs top the lists of best-paid CEOs among providers, insurers

Business Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Biotech employees cash in health care’s largest salaries, while people working at providers sit near the bottom

Special Report Bob Herman, Kate Sheridan, J. Emory Parker, Adam Feuerstein and Mohana Ravindranath

Health care’s high rollers: As the pandemic raged, CEOs’ earnings surged

Insurance Bob Herman and Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: UnitedHealthcare to offer $0 insulin, Epi-Pens, but only for some members

Insurance Tara Bannow

Insurers, courts grapple with how and when to pay for wilderness therapy — a polarizing industry with a sordid past

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Hospitals have to post their prices. Now, health insurers and employers have to publish what they pay

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Supreme Court rules in favor of insurance plan that pushed kidney failure patient to Medicare

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Many Blue Cross Blue Shield plans aren’t paying taxes — and instead are swimming in refunds