Insurance

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: CVS is willing to dump 10% of its Medicare Advantage members next year

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Medicare official says breakthrough device reimbursement rule coming in early summer

Insurance Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: Elevance’s private equity deal will form $4 billion primary care company

Insurance Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: UnitedHealth reaffirms financial outlook despite up to $1.6 billion hit from Change Healthcare cyberattack

Insurance Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: MassMutual is rolling out free genetic testing for members, a dicey area for life insurers

Health Care Inc. Bob Herman

HCA’s charity care filings are on hyperdrive

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Biden administration sticks with slight cuts to 2025 Medicare Advantage payments

Hospitals Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: UnitedHealth’s surprising new target: Struggling Steward’s physician group

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Medicare Advantage insurers pressure Biden administration for bigger payments

Business Brittany Trang and Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: UnitedHealth appears to be upping loan offers to providers, after Change cyberattack

Insurance Rachel Cohrs Zhang

STAT Plus: Medicare couldn’t cover Wegovy for weight loss. But now that it’s also a heart drug, the door is open

Exclusive Bob Herman

STAT Plus: UnitedHealth is on a buying spree of outpatient surgery centers

Business Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: UnitedHealth gives timeline for Change restoration: payments up by late next week

Insurance Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: Large insurers say up to one-quarter of claims run through Change Healthcare

Health tech Mario Aguilar

STAT Plus: Medicare is a tricky market for telehealth companies. Why is Talkspace betting on it?

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Explaining Change Healthcare and the gravity of its cyberattack

Exclusive Brittany Trang

STAT Plus: Change Healthcare cyberattack outage could persist for weeks, UnitedHealth Group executive suggests

First Opinion Wendell Potter and Philip Verhoef

Medicare Advantage is bad for patients and bad for investors

Insurance Brittany Trang, Tara Bannow, and Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Experts say scale of Change cyberattack shows risk of centralized claims processing

First Opinion Mariela Torres Cintrón

How Medicare leaves Puerto Ricans behind

Politics John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: Obamacare plans don’t have to cover weight loss drugs. The government is considering changing that

Business Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: Banning surprise medical bills is raising costs elsewhere

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Medicare Advantage enrollment races past 33 million

Insurance Brittany Trang

STAT Plus: Louisiana, Oregon deals show health insurer acquisitions aren’t a sure thing anymore

Business Brittany Trang

STAT Plus: Private equity investment in Medicare Advantage drops

Health Care Inc. Bob Herman

No one’s pleased with the government’s pitch for 2025 Medicare Advantage rates

Business Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: Lasers, cardiology, clinical trials: 2023’s top private equity targets

Politics Bob Herman and Casey Ross

STAT Plus: Senate Democrats push for stronger rules around AI in Medicare Advantage

Business Casey Ross and Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Government warns Medicare Advantage insurers not to deny care based on AI