Tara Bannow
Hospitals and Health Insurance Report at STAT
Reporter covering hospitals, health insurance, & all things money+health care for @statnews |Tips ➡️ [email protected]
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3 days 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 | Tara Bannow
SAN FRANCISCO — Lurking beneath the shiny promise of artificial intelligence in health care is a host of potential liability issues. Chief among them: a lack of consent from patients, whether any doctor checks the machine’s work, and, if they do, whether that even helps. A panel of legal and medical experts at STAT’s Breakthrough Summit West explained the myriad legal questions hanging over the adoption of AI in health care.
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3 weeks ago |
statnews.com | Tara Bannow |Bob Herman
House Republicans plan to slash $715 billion from state Medicaid programs over the next decade, but their proposal spares special Medicaid payments hospitals increasingly use to pad their bottom lines. Hospitals and state governments have devised complicated, murky funding mechanisms in Medicaid under the guise of keeping hospitals whole. In most cases, they end up directing extra cash to those providers with little federal oversight.
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1 month ago |
statnews.com | Bob Herman |Tara Bannow
The Department of Justice has sued three of the largest Medicare Advantage insurers and three dominant insurance brokerages, alleging a scheme in which the health insurers bribed the brokers to steer older adults into their policies. The lawsuit targets CVS Health’s Aetna, Elevance Health’s Anthem, and Humana, which together cover nearly 40% of the Medicare Advantage market. The brokers named in the lawsuit are eHealth, GoHealth, and SelectQuote.
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1 month ago |
statnews.com | Tara Bannow
The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected hospitals’ argument that the federal government doesn’t pay them enough for treating low-income patients. The seven-justice majority instead sided with the Department of Health and Human Services’ interpretation of the law concerning disproportionate share hospital, or DSH, payments, which compensate hospitals for treating low-income patients. More than 200 hospitals brought the case, Advocate Christ Medical Center v.
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On the Trump admin's cuts to science funding, @PublicHealth exec director Georges Benjamin said at #STATBreakthrough: "We're not using science. We've taken apart the public health infrastructure. And the truth of the matter is, as they say, we're up the creek."
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