Anna Wilde Mathews
Health Reporter at The Wall Street Journal
Reporter for the Wall Street Journal covering health insurers and reimbursement policy. Reach me at [email protected]
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1 week ago |
wsj.com | Anna Wilde Mathews
Major insurers will promise to ease so-called prior authorization by creating a common standard for submitting electronic requests by the start of 2027, the people said. They will also pledge that 80% of electronic requests will be answered in real time by 2027, though only if the submissions include needed documentation, a potentially significant caveat.
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3 weeks ago |
wsj.com | Anna Wilde Mathews |Christopher Weaver
Changes would limit how insurers add patient diagnoses that trigger lucrative extra paymentsHumana HUM -1.11%decrease; red down pointing triangle, the second-biggest Medicare insurer, has told congressional staffers that it will support moves that would curtail billing practices worth billions in extra payments to the industry, according to staffers and a document viewed by The Wall Street Journal.
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3 weeks ago |
wsj.com | Anna Wilde Mathews |Christopher Weaver
Andrew Witty, who largely led the U.S. healthcare giant from the U.K., made big bets on Medicare enrollees that backfiredOn Feb. 5, top executives of UnitedHealth Group gathered in a conference center on the company’s suburban Minneapolis campus. Chief Executive Officer Andrew Witty stood up in the front and offered an encouraging message: Business was good. He was optimistic about the company’s prospects in the coming year.
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3 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | Anna Wilde Mathews
11 hours agoAs Trump Cuts Healthcare, Private Equity Gains Hold At Doctor’s OfficeJust two in five U.S. physicians are in doctor-owned private practice as hospitals and private equity firms gobble up physician groups thanks in part to cuts in insurance payments to medical care providers that are about to get even worse.
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1 month ago |
wsj.com | Theo Francis |Anna Wilde Mathews
Stephen Hemsley would get stock options after three years, in some cases even if he doesn’t stay that longNew UnitedHealth Chief Executive Stephen Hemsley will get a pay package worth $61 million, mostly in stock options that vest after three years, and which he could keep even if he steps down or is terminated sooner. The UnitedHealth chairman and former CEO returned to the top job Tuesday, replacing Andrew Witty at the helm of the healthcare giant he helped build.
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Privately run Medicare Advantage plans will get a sizable payment bump from the federal government, thanks to a 5.06% increase announced by the Trump administration Monday https://t.co/amlTadkmBi via @WSJ