Bob Herman
Healthcare Business Reporter at STAT
Health care business reporter for @statnews and its Health Care Inc. newsletter. Contact: [email protected] or DM.
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6 days ago |
statnews.com | Bob Herman
Hospitals, health insurers, and insurance agents are asking President Trump to pump the brakes on a regulation that would lead to potentially millions of people losing their health insurance. That’s not to say the health care industry disagrees with all of Trump’s proposals, which would make it more difficult for people to get health coverage through the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces.
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1 week ago |
statnews.com | Bob Herman
UnitedHealth Group on Thursday lowered its profit outlook for the rest of this year after the health care conglomerate said its Medicare Advantage members continued to seek more medical care than it anticipated. The higher use of care among these Medicare enrollees “was most notable within physician and outpatient services,” UnitedHealth said in its first-quarter earnings release. That is similar to what the company has been saying since June 2023.
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1 week ago |
statnews.com | Bob Herman
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1 week ago |
statnews.com | Bob Herman
Christi Grimm was driving to a pottery class with her young daughter on Jan. 25 when she got a call from a colleague, who told Grimm she should probably pull over. The news: President Trump had fired her. Grimm was the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services and was axed as part of Trump’s purge of federal watchdogs. Word of the firing quickly spread across the country — starting in the pottery class.
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2 weeks ago |
statnews.com | Casey Ross |Tara Bannow |Bob Herman |Lizzy Lawrence
Republicans in Congress, long an unwavering source of support for privatized Medicare plans, are increasingly calling for reforms amid widespread evidence that health insurers are abusing the system to collect billions of dollars in unwarranted payments.
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