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Health Rachel Cohrs

STAT Plus: How are insurers handling the Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi and related scans?

A STAT Investigation Casey Ross and Bob Herman

STAT Plus: How UnitedHealth’s acquisition of a popular Medicare Advantage algorithm sparked internal dissent over denied care

Business Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Blue Cross Blue Shield insurers keep winning from Affordable Care Act’s risk program

Politics Josh Boak — Associated Press

STAT Plus: Biden launches a new push to limit health care costs, hoping to show he can save money for families

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Bright Health sells Medicare Advantage plans to Molina for $600 million

Politics John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: Protesters slam health insurance lobby for Medicare Advantage coverage restrictions

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: UnitedHealth wins $3.3 billion takeover of home health giant Amedisys

Health Simar Bajaj

‘We fail people’: New data on disparities in Medicaid access to opioid addiction treatment

Health Angus Chen

STAT Plus: Using its Covid know-how, Color Health aims to make cancer screenings convenient

First Opinion Aaron Birnbaum and Matthew Makansi

The staggering financial burden of giving birth — even with insurance

Politics John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: Drug middlemen catch flak at another congressional hearing

First Opinion Owen Tripp

STAT Plus: How I’m helping companies think through whether they should cover GLP-1s like Ozempic for employees

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Fed up with exorbitant health costs, employers and workers are taking insurers to court

First Opinion Shira Fischer

Your health insurance may not be as good your state requires — and it’s perfectly legal

Health tech Mario Aguilar

STAT Plus: With digital therapeutics businesses flailing, the industry descends on D.C. to make the case for coverage

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: UnitedHealth starts bidding war with $3.3 billion offer for Amedisys

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: How Blue Cross Blue Shield insurers ratcheted up profits in 2022

Health Angus Chen

After outcry, UnitedHealthcare softens prior authorization policy for colonoscopies

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: CVS warns PBM reforms ‘could lead to higher costs’

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Matt Eyles, CEO of America’s Health Insurance Plans, to depart

Politics Bob Herman and Casey Ross

Senators probing largest Medicare Advantage plans over how algorithms factor in care denials

Hospitals Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Hospital-insurer tussle in Arizona puts care denials front and center

Health Angus Chen

‘Stunning’ change to United’s colonoscopy coverage roils physicians and patients

Health tech Mario Aguilar

STAT Plus: A former health insurance executive turns to tech to make claims less of a nightmare

Health Care Inc. Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Gail Wilensky on the Geisinger deal, the earnings bonanza, and medical credit cards proliferate

Hospitals Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Geisinger board member: Local consolidation influenced Kaiser-Geisinger deal

Business Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Option Care takes over Amedisys in ‘perplexing’ $3.6 billion home care deal

Health tech Mohana Ravindranath

STAT Plus: Carbon Health blasts a major insurer in rare public dispute over coverage

Hospitals Bob Herman

STAT Plus: New mega-deal highlights Geisinger’s fall, and raises concerns about where Kaiser is going next