Sponsor of the Day:
Jerkmate
https://www.statnews.com/2024/11/25/unitedhealth-higher-payments-optum-providers-converts-expenses-to-profits/
UnitedHealthcare pays its Optum providers above-market rates | STAT
By paying its doctor practices higher rates, UnitedHealth Group can capture higher profits while driving up costs for consumers
market ratesunitedhealthcarepaysoptumproviders
https://www.statnews.com/2026/04/06/medicare-advantage-rates-2027-unitedhealth-humana-cvs-health-stocks-climb/
Health insurer stocks jump on higher Medicare Advantage rates | STAT
Apr 7, 2026 - The Trump administration backed off significant changes that would have reined in payments to Medicare Advantage insurers.
health insurerstocks jumpmedicare advantagerates stathigher
https://www.statnews.com/2021/06/22/colorectal-cancer-hot-spots-young-men-dying-higher-rates/
In colorectal cancer hot spots, young men are dying at higher rates | STAT
Jul 31, 2023 - By studying counties labeled
colorectal cancerhot spotsyoung menhigher ratesdying
https://www.statnews.com/2026/04/06/medicare-advantage-rates-huntsville-alabama-hospital-merger/
Medicare Advantage 2027 rates set to be announced: Health Care Inc. | STAT
Apr 6, 2026 - Medicare Advantage rates, a health system monopoly forms, hospitals and insurer face off in Texas, and more from STAT's Health Care Inc.
health care incmedicare advantagerates set2027announced
https://www.statnews.com/2026/04/20/teen-birth-rates-falling-abortion-birth-control-policy/
Teen birth rates are not the problem | STAT
Apr 20, 2026 - Controlling teen fertility, whether because birth rates are too high or too low, should not be a public health and policy goal.
birth ratesteenproblemstat
https://www.statnews.com/2022/06/20/black-doctors-forced-out-of-training-programs-at-far-higher-rates-than-white-residents/
Black residents are forced out at far higher rates than white doctors | STAT
Jun 28, 2022 - The result of this long-ignored culling is that many Black physicians have been unable to enter lucrative and extremely white medical fields.
black residentsfar higherforcedrateswhite