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Business Bob Herman and Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: DOJ sues to block UnitedHealth takeover of home health giant Amedisys

Health Care Inc. Newsletter Bob Herman

STAT Plus: What a second Trump term means for hospitals, insurers, and Medicare

Business Rachel Cohrs Zhang, Bob Herman, and Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: What the Trump administration could mean for the health care industry, from hospitals to pharma

Politics Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: Donald Trump returns to the presidency with big ambitions to shake up health care

Politics Rachel Cohrs Zhang

How a Kamala Harris presidency would change health care, from drug pricing to abortion

Health Care Inc. Newsletter Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Hospitals prepare to sway the Supreme Court on Medicare payments

Politics Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Health care execs mostly donate to Democrats, but avoid Trump and Harris

First Opinion Michael L. Millenson

Medicare’s hidden information hurts people, policy

Health Care Inc. Newsletter Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: The dropped call that took down Centene’s Medicare Advantage star ratings

Insurance Tara Bannow and Casey Ross

STAT Plus: For the behemoth UnitedHealth, a new threat to Medicare profits

Business Casey Ross, Tara Bannow, Lizzy Lawrence, and Bob Herman

STAT Plus: UnitedHealth collected billions in questionable Medicare payments, federal watchdog finds

Matt's Take Matthew Herper

STAT Plus: Behind CVS CEO’s ouster, a question: Do a pharmacy and a health insurer make sense together?

Health Care Inc. Newsletter Bob Herman

A telling chart shows how health insurers found a way to boost profits by limiting care for seniors

Business Andrew Joseph and Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: CVS Health replaces CEO as it faces a range of challenges

Insurance Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: Ballooning Medicaid costs challenge health insurer Elevance 

Business Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Former UnitedHealth doctors detail what changed at their clinics after takeovers

Insurance Bob Herman and Casey Ross

STAT Plus: Medicare Advantage insurers ramped up use of technology to deny claims, Senate investigation shows

Politics Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: A former top Trump health official lays out how the GOP should revisit fights over drug pricing and the ACA

A STAT Investigation Tara Bannow, Bob Herman, Casey Ross, and Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Inside UnitedHealth’s strategy to pressure physicians: $10,000 bonuses and a doctor leaderboard

Insurance Tara Bannow and Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Medicare Advantage market expected to grow in 2025, despite big changes from insurers

Politics Rachel Cohrs Zhang and John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: JD Vance talked about reinsurance during the VP debate. How does it work?

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Humana tumbles as insurer faces $3 billion hit to revenue over lower Medicare star ratings

D.C. Diagnosis Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: The health care issues we’re watching in tonight’s VP debate

Health Care Inc. Newsletter Bob Herman

STAT Plus: How much more are health care’s bosses making than their employees?

Exclusive Bob Herman, J. Emory Parker, Lizzy Lawrence, Tara Bannow, and Mohana Ravindranath

STAT Plus: Health care CEOs dialed back their pay in 2023. They still made $3.5 billion

D.C. Diagnosis Rachel Cohrs Zhang

STAT Plus: Medicare will continue its cautious approach to paying for Alzheimer’s drugs

First Opinion Paul Ginsburg and Steve Lieberman

How the next president should reform Medicare

Health Care Inc. Bob Herman

STAT Plus: How insurers are covering Humira and copycat medicines

Insurance Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: Insurers went all-in on Medicare Advantage. Now, some are scaling back