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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1 week ago |
autism.einnews.com | Isabella Cueto |Tara Bannow |Anil Oza |O. Rose Broderick
WASHINGTON — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says the country will soon know what is causing a rise in autism rates, but there is little sign he has a team in place yet. Nearly two dozen prominent voices from mainstream autism research and in the anti-vaccine world said they have not been approached by Kennedy, and have no details about the proposed studies. On Wednesday, the health secretary appeared at a press conference alongside Walter Zahorodny, director of a New Jersey autism surveillance study.
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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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2 weeks ago |
statnews.com | Tara Bannow
Health insurers in the private Medicare business have a big incentive to diagnose their members with lots of health conditions: The government pays them more money. A new study shows the extent to which the biggest player in that business, UnitedHealth Group, stands out from the rest for its prowess at raking in extra cash from that program.
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3 weeks ago |
statnews.com | Tara Bannow |Bob Herman
The Department of Justice on Wednesday urged a federal judge not to toss out its long-running fraud case against UnitedHealth Group that alleges the company illegally collected billions of dollars from the Medicare Advantage program. The arguments from the DOJ amount to a last stand in the high-profile whistleblower case that it joined in 2017.
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3 weeks ago |
statnews.com | Bob Herman |Tara Bannow
The Trump administration has gutted two small federal agencies filled with researchers who study how the health care system functions and how to improve it. More than half of employees at the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality — both part of the Department of Health and Human Services — have been laid off, according to several current and former employees.
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Trump's latest executive order seeks to lower drug prices and 340B payments to providers, but most of it can't happen without further rulemaking or buy-in from Congress. https://t.co/FaEdiIok75 via @statnews
"I suspect that a lot of my colleagues are quite excited that Harvard has a spine." STAT's @Jasonmmast reports that some of Harvard's scientists are panicking, while others are ready to fight after Trump admin freezes $2.2B in grants https://t.co/lR6FJoKSFe via @statnews