Skip to Main Content

insurance

Learn about the most common health insurance issues, including affordability, coverage, and quality.

Latest

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: New Medicare Advantage star ratings give extra bonuses to multiple insurers

Business Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: Kaiser adds a small North Carolina health system to its Risant Health network

Insurance Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: Appeals court overturns Sutter Health’s victory in $400 million antitrust case

Health John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: Value-based payment is getting renewed attention. What it means isn’t getting any clearer

D.C. Diagnosis Rachel Cohrs Zhang

UnitedHealth’s Andrew Witty gets no pity in Congress

The Readout Meghana Keshavan

STAT Plus: AskBio CSO steps down, has new project in stealth mode

Insurance Rachel Cohrs Zhang

STAT Plus: Medicare couldn’t cover Wegovy for weight loss. But now that it’s also a heart drug, the door is open

The Readout Damian Garde

Novavax is on thin ice, and the latest update isn’t exactly encouraging

All Coverage

Health Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: Morgan Health wants you to know it’s still here

First Opinion Craig Idlebrook

I went on a mind-boggling journey to get my son’s ADHD medication covered by insurance — twice

advertisement

Morning Rounds Elizabeth Cooney

Morning Rounds: Our newsroom’s favorite stories of 2023

First Opinion George Hampton

Europe’s lessons for the U.S. on how to cover weight loss drugs

Morning Rounds Elizabeth Cooney

STAT Plus: Morning Rounds: Couples share high blood pressure, and other health stories you should read today

Morning Rounds Annalisa Merelli

STAT Plus: STAT Morning Rounds: The health news you need to read today

Special Report Angus Chen

STAT Plus: Colon cancer prevention paradox: Higher-risk patients pay more for colonoscopy

First Opinion Podcast Torie Bosch

Listen: The true costs of mediocre insurance plans for medical students

Insurance Brittany Trang and Elaine Chen

AMA urges coverage of obesity treatments as payers balk at costs

Pharma Elaine Chen

STAT Plus: Wegovy cuts risk of heart attacks in milestone cardiovascular trial

The Readout Meghana Keshavan

STAT Plus: Shrinking Covid vaccine sales has Moderna course-correcting

First Opinion Wendy Netter Epstein and Christopher T. Robertson

The best way to convince healthy people to get insurance is not ‘because it’s in your financial interest’

The Readout Damian Garde

STAT Plus: Novo Nordisk is concluding research on Wegovy’s impact on osteoarthritis

First Opinion Rebecca Love

Want to end historic health care strikes? Fix a broken, outdated reimbursement model

First Opinion Sean Scanlon

Connecticut’s comptroller explains his thinking about GLP-1s for state employees

First Opinion Vijay Ramakrishnan

STAT Plus: How payer-participating trials could help transform clinical research on FDA-approved drugs

Health Care Inc. Bob Herman

Kaiser Permanente workers announce an official strike date

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: Weight loss drugs cost much more in the U.S.; PBMs win a key victory over an Oklahoma law

Biotech Simar Bajaj, Tara Bannow, Bob Herman, and Annalisa Merelli

STAT Plus: Wegovy cardiovascular study has doctors seeing new possibilities in weight loss drug

Insurance Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: Labor Department says UnitedHealth Group unit illegally denied emergency room, drug screen claims

First Opinion Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein

Enough with the health care policy patchwork. It’s time for universal insurance