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How Employers Can Easily Bend the Rx Cost Curve
Pharmacy benefits management has long been a critical strategy for “bending the cost curve” for employers that offer health benefits to their workers…
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Wendell Potter
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‘Moral Injury’ Enters Health Care Lexicon
Nurses and other caregivers join doctors in using the term as resources and autonomy disappear.
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Wendell Potter
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HEALTH CARE un-covered's New Beat: Disintermediation
As I’ve written previously, before I left my job as VP of corporate communications at big health insurer Cigna, I was in a leadership meeting with the…
Apr 22
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“Senator, Saying It Doesn't Make It True”
How a Biden administration official refused to be baited by a senator’s Medicare Advantage talking points.
Apr 19
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Wendell Potter
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Where Does Medicare Go From Here: Profit-Driven Chaos or Patient-Centered Community?
After covering the Medicare privatization crisis for over two years, an investigative reporter takes a step back and examines what’s at stake.
Apr 17
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Matthew Cunningham-Cook
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UnitedHealth Group, the Biggest Private Health Insurer on the Planet, Made $8.5 Billion in Profits in Q1 2024
Meanwhile, many physician practices and hospitals nearly went under because of the cyberattack on the company’s Change Healthcare subsidiary.
Apr 16
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Wendell Potter
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UnitedHealth Group, the Biggest Private Health Insurer on the Planet, Made $8.5 Billion in Profits in Q1 2024
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How We Voted in 2016 Contributed to UnitedHealth's Acquisition of Change Healthcare
Also: Patient information may be even more at risk than we've been told.
Apr 9
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Nightmare on Wall Street for Medicare Advantage Companies
Wall Street has fallen out of love with big insurers that depend heavily on the federal government’s overpayments to the private Medicare replacement…
Apr 5
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The Heritage Foundation's Medicare and Social Security Blueprint
If Congress in the next year or two succeeds in transforming Medicare into something that looks like a run-of-the mill Medicare Advantage plan for…
Apr 4
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BIG INSURANCE 2023: Revenues reached $1.39 trillion thanks to taxpayer-funded Medicaid and Medicare Advantage businesses
The seven big for-profit U.S. health insurers, which also control access to prescription drugs, have seen revenues increase by over 345% in the last…
Apr 2
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Leaked docs reveal extensive noncompete agreements at Epic Systems
Is the largest electronic health record vendor in the United States using restrictive noncompete agreements to kneecap its employees and monopolize the…
Mar 27
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The federal government will soon announce its payment rates and policy changes for the Medicare Advantage program. Here's how you can…
In the coming days, the federal government will announce whether big health insurers that run the private Medicare Advantage program will receive…
Mar 26
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The federal government will soon announce its payment rates and policy changes for the Medicare Advantage program. Here's how you can influence their decision.
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