STAT

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

IU Health’s decision to sell is the latest and most prominent example of hospital systems giving up on the idea that they can be both a provider and payer of care. Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, and IU Health declined to answer questions from STAT. 

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STAT

AUGUST 10, 2023

AdventHealth, a large religious-affiliated hospital system, has sued MultiPlan, alleging the company has worked with health insurers to create a “cartel” that systematically underpays hospitals and doctors for care that is delivered out of an insurance company’s network.

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STAT

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Arbitration, the land where nobody is happy After Congress officially outlawed most types of surprise medical bills last year, there’s been endless, litigious debate as to how health insurance companies and providers should settle their differences while patients are held harmless.

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STAT

MAY 4, 2023

Option Care Health is buying Amedisys in an all-stock merger valued at $3.6 billion, creating a national company that specializes in almost all types of home care that can be provided from cradle to grave. billion acquisition of LHC Group.

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STAT

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The lawsuit builds on the Federal Trade Commission’s complaint filed in September, which argued USAP and Welsh Carson illegally bought up anesthesia practices across Texas as a way to concentrate market power, gain negotiating leverage over health insurance companies, and raise prices.

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STAT

MARCH 13, 2023

When NaviHealth began building a business around using algorithms to scrutinize the care of older patients a decade ago, one of the country’s largest chains of inpatient rehab and long-term care hospitals was among the first to invest.

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STAT

OCTOBER 2, 2023

After Congress officially outlawed surprise medical bills last year, there’s been endless, litigious debate as to how health insurance companies and providers should settle their differences over how much to pay for out-of-network medical bills.

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PhRMA

MARCH 2, 2023

These include things like making sure patients aren’t paying more for their medicines than their health insurance company or requiring first-dollar coverage, so insurance companies cover the cost of certain lifesaving medicines from day one of the plan year. Here’s how 340B is hurting patients.

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Viseven

MARCH 25, 2025

In the future, a number of hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare organizations will leverage the combination of business intelligence and artificial intelligence to analyze data and make the right decision based on the analysis. It can benefit individual healthcare providers just as much as whole hospitals and other facilities.

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pharmaphorum

AUGUST 18, 2020

Teladoc is the only public-traded telehealth company in the US, and concerns from its investors seemed to centre on the price it was paying to meld with Livongo , particularly as the value of the latter’s stock sank below the offer price soon after it was announced.

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RX Note

JUNE 14, 2023

Under the Commercial Model, the health insurance companies can be for-profit enterprises. The system is based on the demand/supply basis with the possibility to freely choose among different insurance programmes. The premiums are based on risk assessments and the insurances can also refuse the request for insurance.

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STAT

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The federal government wants to create a national directory that houses accurate, up-to-date information for all doctors and providers across the country — an ambitious attempt to rectify the plethora of error-riddled directories that are maintained by health insurance companies.

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HealthPartners

JULY 21, 2021

HealthPartners is a health solutions company providing care through hospitals and clinics, as well as insurance coverage for companies. Ours is a tightly integrated approach with our health plans managed in sync with the medical, pharmaceutical, dental and other care we provide. And we agree.

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Express Pharma

JANUARY 12, 2024

For the same, the government should consider providing incentives to the industry for undertaking skill development initiatives for paramedics in government hospitals and colleges/ universities. This will also expand the scope for private health insurance companies to include them in their products, irrespective of the package cost.

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STAT

JANUARY 16, 2025

In UnitedHealth Group’s first public appearance since the killing of a top executive, leaders acknowledged the public’s discontent with the health care system, but quickly piled blame on drug companies and hospitals. The company’s stock has lost nearly 14% of its value since the Dec. 4 killing.

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STAT

MARCH 7, 2025

UnitedHealth Group, the largest health care company in the U.S.,   The sprawling conglomerate — which owns a major health insurance company, physician practices, a pharmacy benefit manager, and numerous other firms — acquired or created more than 250 subsidiaries in 2024.

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STAT

DECEMBER 16, 2024

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STAT

JANUARY 17, 2024

The Biden administration moved Wednesday to force insurance companies to give specific reasons for denying coverage, and to speed up the pre-approval process in general. The new rule applies to health insurance companies that offer Medicare, Medicaid, Children’s Health Insurance Program, and Obamacare plans.

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STAT

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

It’s especially instructive to know where business executives are putting their dollars — it signals their politics, which informs how they run their companies and what they want to get out of federal policymaking.

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STAT

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

STAT looked at campaign donation filings that cover the 2024 election period for more than 40 CEOs of major health insurance companies, hospital systems , and other provider groups.

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STAT

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The executive order promises “radical transparency” on health care prices for patients by ordering the Departments of the Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services “to rapidly implement and enforce the health care price transparency regulations.”

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