Bob Herman
Healthcare Business Reporter at STAT
Health care business reporter for @statnews and its Health Care Inc. newsletter. Contact: [email protected] or bobjherman.09 on Signal.
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4 days ago |
statnews.com | Casey Ross |Bob Herman |Lizzy Lawrence |Tara Bannow
For most of its 18-year history, Semler Scientific marketed a single medical product that became a popular way for top Medicare insurers like UnitedHealth Group to detect artery blockages in older Americans. But in its most recent earnings call, the device maker’s focus on artery health gave way to a different strategy: “We are a bitcoin-first company,” Eric Semler, the company’s chairman, declared in announcing a large purchase of the cryptocurrency.
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2 weeks ago |
statnews.com | Bob Herman
Hospitals, physician groups, and nursing homes across 15 states will receive billions of dollars in extra Medicaid funding this year thanks to federal health care officials signing off on new agreements. In almost all of the new agreements, states will pay health care providers average commercial prices to treat Medicaid patients — a boon for providers that often decry Medicaid as one of their worst-paying insurers.
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2 weeks ago |
statnews.com | Bob Herman
This is the online version of STAT’s weekly email newsletter Health Care Inc. Sign up here. Hello, everyone! Welcome back. If you sign up for an annual STAT+ subscription in the next week, you’ll get 50% off. Appreciate all of you who choose to read us in any capacity— especially you HCI subscribers. Hit me up with your tips and summer plans: [email protected]. Last week, my colleagues Casey Ross, Tara Bannow, Lizzy Lawrence, and I were working on a story when Casey dropped a bomb in our group chat.
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3 weeks ago |
statnews.com | Casey Ross |Tara Bannow |Bob Herman
An internal document drafted in advance of UnitedHealth Group’s shareholder meeting this week reveals how the company’s leadership — facing an extraordinary series of financial and legal challenges — sought to downplay complaints about its business practices and assure jittery investors that it will soon return to maximum profitability.
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3 weeks ago |
statnews.com | Bob Herman
This is the online version of STAT’s email newsletter Health Care Inc., delivered to your inbox every Monday. Sign up here. Welcome back to Health Care Inc.! I can promise you that you will never see any of these kinds of “formatting issues” here. But always feel free to format an email and send some feedback: [email protected]. The Trump administration’s U.S. DOGE Service — tasked with taking a hatchet to government spending and not looking back — was headlined by billionaire Elon Musk.
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