Bob Herman
@bobjherman
Health care business reporter for @statnews and its Health Care Inc. newsletter. Contact: [email protected] or bobjherman.09 on Signal.
10 million expected to lose health insurance under Trump’s tax cut law, CBO says statnews.com/2025/07/21/cbo…
A federal judge just tossed out Humana's lawsuit over its downgraded Medicare Advantage star ratings. Humana "did not exhaust the appeal process." Another loss for MA plans that have aggressively sued the gov't over star ratings. But Humana could refile. statnews.com/2025/07/18/hum…
The first Medicare physician payment rule under RFK Jr. proposes cuts to thousands of procedures, scans, and tests because doctors have gotten more "efficient" over time. Specialty physicians, and the AMA, are big mad. more w/ @TaraBannow: statnews.com/2025/07/16/med…
Latest for @AP: ICE officials will have access to all 79 million Medicaid enrollees' personal data, including addresses and ethnicities, according to an extraordinary agreement signed on Monday. w/ @kimberlykindy apnews.com/article/immigr…
New: UnitedHealth is trying to quiet its critics through legal threats against journalists, investors, doctors, filmmakers and others. The giant company is invoking the murder of its CEO to argue that intense criticism risks inciting future violence. 🎁🔗 nytimes.com/2025/07/12/bus…
Big price hike for the blockbuster cystic fibrosis drug Trikafta
Medicare Advantage plans have been suing the government like crazy over their downgraded star ratings. Billions of $ are on the line, so they are finding any reasons to claim the calculations are wrong. But the industry is on a bit of a losing streak. statnews.com/2025/07/09/fed…
Breaking: HHS Secretary RFK Jr. has abruptly cancelled a meeting of the advisory committee that evaluates the nation's preventative services. No reason was provided via a letter viewed by STAT. statnews.com/2025/07/09/usp…
#CDC reports the confirmed #measles count in the country so far this year has hit 1,288, the highest single year total since 1992 — and the highest since measles was declared eliminated in the US in 2000. statnews.com/2025/07/09/mea…
How the GOP, behind closed doors, pushed through health industry fears and passed historic Medicaid cuts statnews.com/2025/07/08/tru…
How the GOP, behind closed doors, pushed through health industry fears and passed historic Medicaid cuts statnews.com/2025/07/08/tru…
Exclusive: I spoke with 15 employees at the FDA to get a sense of how the agency is functioning since the April 1 layoffs. They described tanking morale and an intensifying staff exodus. Read more here: statnews.com/2025/07/07/fda…
Here's how the tax-cut bill that’s headed to Trump’s desk would upend health care trib.al/8XwObNk
🚨HOUSE PASSES RECONCILIATION BILL, HEADS TO W.H. FOR TRUMP'S SIGNATURE VOTE WAS 218-214 GOP NO VOTES: FITZPATRICK MASSIE
This comes as a surprise to many people because so much of health costs are not out-of-pocket (aside from drugs), and are instead shrouded behind insurance premiums that eat into wages and increase by 5-7% a year.
Hospitals, pharma, doctors, medical devices, health insurers, PBMs — the entire health care industry has crushed working households through higher prices and out-of-pocket spending, to the point that health care is a bigger expense than a mortgage. x.com/lydiadepillis/…
Hospitals, pharma, doctors, medical devices, health insurers, PBMs — the entire health care industry has crushed working households through higher prices and out-of-pocket spending, to the point that health care is a bigger expense than a mortgage. x.com/lydiadepillis/…
For the few years I've been covering jobs reports, and one sector typically rises above the rest, quietly hiring by the thousands: Health care. How taking care of humans became the biggest employer in America, and what it means for the rest of us. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Republicans are one step closer to gutting Medicaid and other health care programs, as Trump's tax bill clears Senate. Still a ways to go. Follow @john_wilkerson, @_daniel_payne, & @ChelseaCirruzzo: statnews.com/2025/07/01/sen…
NEW: Inside "Operation Gold Rush," the government's biggest Medicare fraud bust ever. For years, people got mysterious bills for catheters. Feds now say more than 1 million Americans' information was compromised in $10B-plus scheme. w @LaurenWeberHP washingtonpost.com/health/2025/06…
Yes, the series of errors is known as "the entire U.S. health care system." A truly outrageous story from @Julie_appleby kffhealthnews.org/news/article/b…
