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A STAT Investigation Casey Ross and Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Denied by AI: How Medicare Advantage plans use algorithms to cut off care for seniors in need

Health Care Trisha Pasricha

STAT Plus: Many doctors spend their days battling insurers. Why do some go to work for ‘the dark side’?

Insurance Rachel Cohrs

STAT Plus: How can states keep people insured after Medicaid protections lapse? Connecticut has an idea

Insurance John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: The other way the government is privatizing Medicare

Insurance Bob Herman and Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: CVS’ Oak Street Health acquisition continues the industry’s provider obsession

Insurance Bob Herman and Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: Medicare Advantage insurers will score $2 billion gift thanks to limited audits

Insurance Bob Herman and Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: Medicare Advantage insurers to repay billions under final federal audit rule

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: ‘Everybody has blood on their hands’: A decade-long battle over Medicare Advantage audits is coming to a head

First Opinion Robert M. Kaplan and Paul Tang

Upcoding: one reason Medicare Advantage companies pay clinicians to make home health checkups

Business Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: Hip and knee replacements go better when performed by high-volume surgeons, new study finds

Hospitals Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Hospitals gear up to expand market power, raise prices in 2023

First Opinion Nick Hayes

For addiction treatment, longer is better. But insurance companies usually cut it short

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Oscar Health’s CEO on post-hype health insurance and finally turning a profit

Business Tara Bannow and Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Drastic changes should bring profitability, startup health insurers say

Insurance Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: Insurers hint at suing Biden administration over plans for Medicare Advantage audits

Hospitals Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Hospitals say peak labor costs are behind them

Business Bob Herman and Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: The health care providers and insurers we’re watching at JPM23 — and why

Business Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: Providers seeking resolution of billing disputes under the No Surprises Act cause a major backlog of cases

First Opinion Andrew Dreyfus

How value-based payments to clinicians can help close equity gaps

D.C. Diagnosis Rachel Cohrs

After nine months, an update on NIH’s long Covid research

First Opinion Devan Hawkins

Paid sick leave is good for workers — and U.S. public health

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: The Covid-19 test maker that pivoted to being a health insurance company

Business Tara Bannow and Olivia Goldhill

Psychedelic therapy is moving to the next frontier: workplace perk

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: The health insurer will see you now: How UnitedHealth is keeping more profits, as your doctor

Business Tara Bannow

Medical malpractice lawsuits, delayed by the pandemic, are hitting hospitals harder than expected