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Bob Herman

Bob Herman

Healthcare Business Reporter at STAT

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United States
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  • English
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  • Health & Medicine

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Recent Articles

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Medicare routes $16 billion to insurers to offset high drug costs

The federal government has sent a record $16 billion to health insurers that sell Medicare drug plans, a flashing red sign that prescription drug spending is blowing up far beyond expectations.
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Major health insurers to skip J.P. Morgan conference, again

High costs, quiet-period rules, investor skepticism, and lingering safety concerns are pushing major insurers to once again skip the event.
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Driven by GLP-1s, prescription drug spending explodes at major heal...

Some insurers have spent more on drugs in nine months this year than they did in all of 2024. Cost of weight loss drugs a major factor, STAT analysis finds.
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Medicare Advantage enrollment chaos, and more expensive stars

This is the online version of STAT's weekly email newsletter Health Care Inc.
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Medicare Advantage plans to gain $13 billion under Trump changes to...

Medicare Advantage insurers scored a Thanksgiving gift, as President Trump’s Medicare agency added back a bonus system that rewards health plans with consistently high marks.
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Major health insurers like Humana, UnitedHealth are cutting broker ...

State insurance watchdogs worry that Medicare beneficiaries are having their choices artificially limited.
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Medicare backs off plan for quicker clawback of $7.8 billion from h...

Medicare officials have backed off a plan that would have clawed back $7.8 billion from hospitals a decade sooner than originally planned.
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Everyone picked a health plan, everyone’s miserable

Did you have fun with open enrollment? @bobjherman asks in this week's Health Care Inc. newsletter.
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Medicare premiums to jump 10% heading into 2026

Most Medicare enrollees will face premiums that are 10% higher next year, creating budget anxiety for millions of seniors.
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Elevance loses lawsuit over Medicare Advantage quality ratings

A federal judge rejected Elevance's argument that the government unfair lowered its ratings.
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Health care CEOs harvest billions even as industry lags broader sto...

STAT dug into the compensation of 275 CEOs across health care.