{"id":5471,"date":"2025-07-21T23:02:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T23:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/21\/health-insurer-financial-results-struggles-medicare-doctor-pay-inpatient-only-list-340b-hospital-clawback-health-care-inc-newsletter\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T23:02:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T23:02:20","slug":"health-insurer-financial-results-struggles-medicare-doctor-pay-inpatient-only-list-340b-hospital-clawback-health-care-inc-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/21\/health-insurer-financial-results-struggles-medicare-doctor-pay-inpatient-only-list-340b-hospital-clawback-health-care-inc-newsletter\/","title":{"rendered":"STAT+: Health insurers are struggling, big time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    STAT+: Health insurers are struggling, big time<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>This is the online version of STAT\u2019s weekly email newsletter Health Care Inc.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/category\/health-care-inc\/\">Sign up here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hello! Good to see you here. The $5.3 trillion health care system remains one of the central sources of American job growth. That\u2019s especially the case among\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jburnmurdoch\/status\/1946220426713039250?utm_campaign=health_care_inc&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_PH3jI-9BxtaQH-8sJjViZm0-8nZia3JglHDbw13NRuO6DiLQZUyZobLDBPJyAovPUhI9F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">women who graduated college<\/a>, but not among men who graduated college.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-good-vibes-are-toast\">The good vibes are toast<\/h2>\n<p>Since the Affordable Care Act went into effect, health insurance companies have been a favorite on Wall Street. More people were gaining health coverage, and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2018\/08\/14\/the-growth-of-government-health-care-1534272781?utm_campaign=health_care_inc&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_PH3jI-9BxtaQH-8sJjViZm0-8nZia3JglHDbw13NRuO6DiLQZUyZobLDBPJyAovPUhI9F\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shift toward government programs<\/a>\u00a0created steady, sizable profit margins.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/07\/21\/health-insurer-financial-results-struggles-medicare-doctor-pay-inpatient-only-list-340b-hospital-clawback-health-care-inc-newsletter\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Continue to STAT+ to read the full story\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bob Herman<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/07\/21\/health-insurer-financial-results-struggles-medicare-doctor-pay-inpatient-only-list-340b-hospital-clawback-health-care-inc-newsletter\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STAT+: Health insurers are struggling, big time This is the online version of STAT\u2019s weekly email newsletter Health Care Inc.\u00a0Sign up here. Hello! Good to see you here. The $5.3 trillion health care system remains one of the central sources of American job growth. That\u2019s especially the case among\u00a0women who graduated college, but not among [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,2210,2211,2288,2212,2213,2266,2314,2151,2144,2152],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-5471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-health-care-inc","category-health-care-inc-newsletter","category-health-insurance","category-hospitals","category-insurance","category-medicare-advantage","category-physicians","category-policy","category-politics","category-stat","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}