Bob Herman from STAT News - Journalist Profile

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1	Bob Herman STAT News Health care business reporter. Indiana Health carebusiness	Patient volumes have stormed back into hospitals - 19 days ago STAT+: Peter Orszag wants the FTC and DOJ to stop challenging ‘vertical’ health care mergers - 20 days ago STAT+: Private equity firms to acquire health care billing and payments firm R1 in $8.9 billion deal - about 1 month ago Supreme Court undercuts regulators’ authority across government - 2 months ago STAT+: Why health care spending keeps climbing - 3 months ago HCA’s charity care filings are on hyperdrive - 5 months ago STAT+: Medicare Advantage insurers pressure Biden administration for bigger payments - 6 months ago STAT+: Private equity firm offers $5.8 billion buyout of hospital billing company R1 RCM - 6 months ago STAT+: UnitedHealth cyberattack impedes pharmacies’ and hospitals’ ability to process insurance claims - 7 months ago STAT+: DOJ investigating Community Health Systems’ hospitals - 7 months ago Medicare Advantage’s 33 million club - 7 months ago STAT+: Medicare Advantage enrollment races past 33 million - 7 months ago No one’s pleased with the government’s pitch for 2025 Medicare Advantage rates - 7 months ago STAT+: FTC doubles down in Welsh Carson anesthesia case to limit private equity’s physician buyouts - 7 months ago STAT+: Senate Democrats push for stronger rules around AI in Medicare Advantage - 7 months ago STAT+: Government warns Medicare Advantage insurers not to deny care based on AI - 7 months ago STAT+: A sweeping new lawsuit against J&J asks: Are employers liable if they overpay for drugs? - 7 months ago Let the Medicare Advantage lobbying begin - 7 months ago STAT+: Democrats urge government to rein in Medicare Advantage overpayments and denials - 8 months ago STAT+: Humana slashes profit predictions amid soaring Medicare Advantage costs - 8 months ago STAT+: Fiery MedPAC meeting highlights massive overpayments in Medicare Advantage - 8 months ago UnitedHealth’s next physician acquisition & the January health insurance churn - 8 months ago STAT+: CVS Health sees Medicare Advantage patients seek more care, eating into profits - 8 months ago UnitedHealth’s rehab restrictions, Texas medical school drama, and health care’s biggest profits - 8 months ago STAT+: UnitedHealth used secret rules to restrict rehab care for seriously ill Medicare Advantage patients - 8 months ago STAT+: Biden administration asks judge to toss out Humana’s Medicare Advantage audit lawsuit - 9 months ago STAT+: The biggest health care deals of 2023 - 9 months ago STAT+: Humana used algorithm in ‘fraudulent scheme’ to deny care to Medicare Advantage patients, lawsuit alleges - 9 months ago STAT+: Hot antitrust environment hangs over called-off merger between Cigna and Humana - 9 months ago STAT+: Stephen Hemsley, UnitedHealth Group board chair, sells nearly $113 million in stock - 9 months ago STAT+: Cigna, Humana in talks to merge into health insurance giant, per report - 9 months ago STAT+: UnitedHealth Group now employs or is affiliated with 10% of all physicians in the U.S. - 9 months ago STAT+: U.S. Anesthesia Partners, Welsh Carson face class action over monopoly allegations - 10 months ago STAT+: How a major hospital shows just how inflated hospital list prices are - 10 months ago UnitedHealth faces class action lawsuit over algorithmic care denials in Medicare Advantage plans - 10 months ago STAT+: UnitedHealth pushed employees to follow an algorithm to cut off Medicare patients’ rehab care - 10 months ago Is there a bigger move being planned at Cigna? - 10 months ago Ambulance rides for just $100? Government advisers want major billing fixes - 10 months ago STAT+: Medicare moves ahead with more price transparency requirements for hospitals - 10 months ago STAT+: Democrats push government to police algorithms in Medicare Advantage - 10 months ago STAT+: Looking to retain billions, hospitals warn Medicare’s drug payment fix is ‘unlawful’ - 11 months ago STAT+: Humana CEO Bruce Broussard to step down next year - 11 months ago FTC sues private equity firm Welsh Carson, U.S. Anesthesia Partners for allegedly creating a monopoly - 12 months ago STAT+: Medicare wants to increase payments for heart rehab. Hospitals see an opening to get more - 12 months ago
2	Sarah Owermohle STAT News Health reporter @STATNews. Covers Biden's agenda. Washington, District of Columbia health policyjournalism	Supreme Court undercuts regulators’ authority across government - 2 months ago
3	John Wilkerson STAT News STAT Washington correspondent. Healthcare Journalism	Supreme Court undercuts regulators’ authority across government - 2 months ago
4	Tara Bannow STAT News Reporter @statnews. healthcarejournalism	STAT+: UnitedHealth cyberattack impedes pharmacies’ and hospitals’ ability to process insurance claims - 7 months ago STAT+: The biggest health care deals of 2023 - 9 months ago STAT+: Cigna, Humana in talks to merge into health insurance giant, per report - 9 months ago Ambulance rides for just $100? Government advisers want major billing fixes - 10 months ago FTC sues private equity firm Welsh Carson, U.S. Anesthesia Partners for allegedly creating a monopoly - 12 months ago
5	Brittany Trang STAT News Health care business reporter. PhD. Indie rock fan. health carebusiness reporting	STAT+: UnitedHealth cyberattack impedes pharmacies’ and hospitals’ ability to process insurance claims - 7 months ago STAT+: Cigna, Humana in talks to merge into health insurance giant, per report - 9 months ago
6	Casey Ross STAT News National health tech writer @statnews. Covers #AI, #digitalhealth. Cleveland, OH health technologyjournalismartificial intelligencedigital health	STAT+: Senate Democrats push for stronger rules around AI in Medicare Advantage - 7 months ago STAT+: Government warns Medicare Advantage insurers not to deny care based on AI - 7 months ago STAT+: UnitedHealth used secret rules to restrict rehab care for seriously ill Medicare Advantage patients - 8 months ago STAT+: Humana used algorithm in ‘fraudulent scheme’ to deny care to Medicare Advantage patients, lawsuit alleges - 9 months ago UnitedHealth faces class action lawsuit over algorithmic care denials in Medicare Advantage plans - 10 months ago STAT+: UnitedHealth pushed employees to follow an algorithm to cut off Medicare patients’ rehab care - 10 months ago
7	Ed Silverman STAT News Pharmalot columnist. Senior writer at STATnews. pharmaceutical industry	STAT+: A sweeping new lawsuit against J&J asks: Are employers liable if they overpay for drugs? - 7 months ago