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Politics Rachel Cohrs

STAT Plus: The big-money Medicare policy that has hospitals worried this Congress

Politics Rachel Cohrs

STAT Plus: Medicare explains how it will choose drugs for negotiation

Politics John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: Would the federal government defer to states to regulate PBMs?

Politics Rachel Cohrs

STAT Plus: Biden administration to fine manufacturers of 27 medicines for price hikes

Politics Joanne Silberner

STAT Plus: Medicare will take R&D costs, effectiveness into account when it negotiates drug prices. But studies show that doesn’t affect prices

Politics Rachel Cohrs

STAT Plus: Biden administration requests $20 billion cash infusion to bolster public health

Politics John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: Biden makes drug pricing a central part of his deficit reduction plans

Politics Nicholas Florko

STAT Plus: With an $11 billion price tag, the White House pitches a plan to end hepatitis C

Politics Rachel Cohrs

STAT Plus: An unlikely new 340B alliance emerges between PhRMA and community health centers

Politics John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: Medicare chief on the new drug price negotiation program’s operations, hiring, and timelines

Politics Rachel Cohrs

STAT Plus: Biden proposes expanding Medicare drug negotiation program

Insurance Rachel Cohrs

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

Politics John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: By cutting insulin prices, Eli Lilly avoids paying big Medicaid rebates

Health Nicholas Florko

STAT Plus: Cereal, pasta, and other food companies blast the FDA for a too-strict definition of ‘healthy’

Hospitals John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: Here’s another sign the Biden administration is taking a harsher stance on hospital consolidation

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Medicare Advantage membership grows 7% for 2023

Politics John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: Republicans are using the FTC’s Lina Khan as an excuse for opposing drug pricing bills

Politics Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: Key Senate committee takes first step toward tackling health workforce shortages

Politics Rachel Cohrs and John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: Biden administration pitches 3 big new drug pricing reform experiments

In the Lab Andrew Joseph

Scientific institutions must embrace antiracist policies, National Academies report urges

Politics Rachel Cohrs

STAT Plus: Sen. Tammy Baldwin criticizes Ascension’s for-profit investment activities, requests returns and fees info

Politics Sarah Owermohle and John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: In State of the Union, Biden pitches addiction, mental health care policies as opportunities for bipartisanship

Politics Nicholas Florko

STAT Plus: It’s easy to buy flavored vapes in California, even in cities with longtime bans

Politics Nicholas Florko

STAT Plus: After nearly 4 years of deliberation, FDA punts on how to regulate CBD

Politics Matthew Perrone — Associated Press

STAT Plus: New lawsuits target state restrictions on abortion pills

Politics John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: The 4 biggest questions about the FDA’s forthcoming changes to accelerated approvals

Politics Rachel Cohrs

STAT Plus: PhRMA terminates lobbying contract with White House official’s brother

Politics Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: ‘Hot mess’: Abortion pills at pharmacies could face legal quagmires, especially in restrictive states

Health Andrew Joseph

STAT Plus: Loan repayment program seeks to bolster infectious disease field