Medicare

Exclusive Bob Herman and Rachel Cohrs Zhang

STAT Plus: Medicare expects to spend $3.5 billion on new Alzheimer’s drug in 2025

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: Regeneron accused by Justice Department of manipulating Medicare pricing

Health Care Inc. Bob Herman

HCA’s charity care filings are on hyperdrive

Hospitals Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: HCA reports almost $1 billion more in charity care to Medicare than to its shareholders, drawing more taxpayer money

Politics John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: Watch: Medicare billing forms are running out of space for growing health care prices

Insurance Bob Herman

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

Insurance Bob Herman

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

Health Elaine Chen

STAT Plus: Despite new Wegovy coverage, Medicare patients may face high drug costs and other hurdles

Politics John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: Medicare expected to negotiate obesity drug prices soon, new analysis predicts

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 Brittany Trang

STAT Plus: Medicare announces loan program to aid providers affected by Change cyberattack

The Readout Meghana Keshavan

STAT Plus: Eli Lilly’s anti-vanity ad campaign for Oscars

Politics John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: In his State of the Union, Biden takes clear aim at ‘Big Pharma’

Politics Rachel Cohrs Zhang

STAT Plus: Pharma giants, government spar in court over Medicare drug price negotiation

Business Brittany Trang

STAT Plus: Nursing home owners can hide nearly two-thirds of their profits, new study shows

Politics Rachel Cohrs Zhang

STAT Plus: Biden to propose expanding Medicare drug price negotiation in State of the Union

Health tech Mario Aguilar

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

Politics John Wilkerson and Rachel Cohrs Zhang

STAT Plus: Congress gives doctors Medicare pay bump, sets up December fight in new funding package

Politics Rachel Cohrs Zhang

STAT Plus: Federal judge rules against AstraZeneca in lawsuit challenging Medicare drug price negotiation

First Opinion Samyukta Mullangi

New federal guidance is hurting cancer patients, especially those in rural areas

Exclusive Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Medical device lobby says it’s tired of waiting on Medicare to cover breakthrough devices

D.C. Diagnosis Rachel Cohrs Zhang

House looks to weaken Medicare negotiation

Politics Nicholas Florko

STAT Plus: Why won’t Medicare deliver food to sick seniors, if it could get them healthy?

First Opinion Wendell Potter and Philip Verhoef

Medicare Advantage is bad for patients and bad for investors

Politics Rachel Cohrs Zhang

STAT Plus: Congress ditches site-neutral hospital pay policy

Politics Rachel Cohrs Zhang and John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: Congress punts on PBM reform efforts

Letters to the editor Torie Bosch

What STAT readers think about octogenarian presidents

Hospitals Bob Herman

STAT Plus: DOJ investigating Community Health Systems’ hospitals