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A private equity owned hospital chain is converting to a nonprofit. On its face, it sounds like a good deal.
But who actually benefits? Quorum's hospitals will get loaded with 30% more debt while Quorum's lenders are almost made whole.
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If you watched Sunday's @LastWeekTonight with @iamjohnoliver and want to better understand the acronym 'TAMPER,' you can read our story — Health Care's Colossus: How UnitedHealth harnesses its physician empire to squeeze profits out of patients. statnews.com/2024/07/25/unit…
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Bob Herman retweeted
NEW exclusive from me:
Health officials moved money out of the Office of Minority Health to help pay for the ballooning costs of RFK Jr.'s security
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Bob Herman retweeted
woah. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft.
Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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MedPAC has consistently reported overpayments in Medicare Advantage. Health insurance companies want to kneecap how MedPAC reports these overpayments. Now, insurers have allies in Congress: Republicans, @john_wilkerson reports. statnews.com/2026/09/16/medi…
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Paul Ginsburg, a health economist at USC and a former MedPAC commissioner, said the bill “is the most extreme example that I am aware of in which a stakeholder has worked to undermine MedPAC’s independence.”
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How much does it cost to have a baby? Like any normal parent - I analyzed all of our bills to figure things out
New post today is a walkthrough of our hospital bills. They provide a good explainer for how pregnancy/birth billing works because it's unique!And most interestingly - the billing for pregnancy is going through a huge overhaul next year which we'll talk about
Can you guess how much our bill was???
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Exclusive: The White House has given RFK Jr access to military aircraft as the health secretary has criss-crossed the country.
RFK Jr used private flight to join GOP candidates in Iowa last month.
w @rachel_roubein @abtran
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Bob Herman retweeted
"Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk, the largest manufacturers of weight-loss drugs, have made at least one payment to more than a quarter million doctors and other prescribers including NPs since 2018. Companies spent >$270 million on these promotional efforts." washingtonpost.com/health/20…
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“What if Trump said, ‘I want to do these [$500 ACA refunds], but only in states that voted for me in the last election’? What is stopping him from doing that, but not stopping him from doing this?” statnews.com/2026/09/10/trum…
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New exclusive: In his 25 years as an OBGYN, Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas repeatedly sued patients for outstanding medical debt. At least 81 were arrested during their court proceedings. Some had debt from c-sections; others from miscarriages.
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UnitedHealth Group's top executives and board members showered Rep. Katherine Clark with cash ahead of her primary. Clark is the No. 2 House Democrat who no longer supports Medicare for All. Does UHG sense a change of power in DC? statnews.com/2026/09/08/uhg-…
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Drug prices and health insurance are so broken that GoodRx is offering...a $200 annual subscription for a family to get some generics for free and others for less than $10. Telehealth is an add-on cost. This is a solution! investors.goodrx.com/news-re…
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This tells you everything you need to know about the Trump administration's drug price agreements with pharma companies. sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/…
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Precedent-setting moment in news media. The editor of the second most important opinion page in the country greenlights the use of AI for drafting pieces, no disclosure necessary.
In a statement, WSJ opinion editor Paul Gigot defends Druckenmiller's use of AI to write Monday's op ed, saying "AI is a fact of modern life," and "nobody can doubt that his op-ed is his genuine opinion."
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