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Health Tech Mohana Ravindranath

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

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

First Opinion Anand Parekh

Preventive services can improve Americans’ health, but they are now on trial

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

Health Care Inc. Bob Herman

Raising a RUC-kus, Blues’ antitrust deal appealed, & a UAE deal

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

First Opinion Marc Rodwin and Alan Sager

The No Surprises Act: A Band-Aid protecting business as usual

Hospitals Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: Biden administration largely stands firm on its method for resolving surprise billing disputes

Insurance Bob Herman

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

A STAT Investigation Tara Bannow

Parents and clinicians say private equity’s profit fixation is short-changing kids with autism

Health Care Inc. Bob Herman

Wall Street’s love affair with insurers, hospitals pressure Medicare, and swimming in a risk pool

First Opinion Kip Sullivan, Ana Malinow and Kay Tillow

Value-based payment has produced little value. It needs a time-out

First Opinion Seema Verma and Aneesh Chopra

New price transparency regulations for hospitals, insurers empower patients

Health Care Inc. Bob Herman

A CEO pay bonanza, how much the rank and file are paid, and a wilderness therapy rabbit hole

Insurance Bob Herman

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

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

Hospitals Bob Herman

STAT Plus: New Jersey hospitals scrap merger after FTC challenge

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Florida hospital system sues religious sharing ministry over unpaid medical claims

D.C. Diagnosis Rachel Cohrs

California senators advance three bills meant to crack down on health insurers

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: Drugmakers win court battle over an HHS rule that would have penalized them for offering copay coupons

Insurance Bob Herman

Seven health insurance CEOs raked in a record $283 million last year