📺WATCH: Tahir Amin unpacks how Bristol Myers Squibb amassed dozens of additional patents on its top-selling drug Eliquis, then weaponized those patents to sue competitors and prevent them from entering the U.S. market.

It's official, as of today: I'm executive editor of KFF Health News.

Grateful to @drewaltman for his trust. Excited and humbled to lead an award-winning team of journalists. Check us out at kffhealthnews.org and californiahealthline.org.

So honored! May it help bring change to a lackluster health system.

lol some hospitals are still posting this sludge to be compliant with federal price transparency law twitter.com/bobjherman/sta…

Millions Were Booted From Medicaid. The Insurers That Run It Gained Medicaid Revenue Anyway. kffhealthnews.org/MTg0NTEzMw via @kffhealthnews

Lying around the ER for hours is not a good thing for frail and sick old people. But it happens and hospitals say they can't do much about it. cnn.com/2024/04/26/hea…

RIP Public Option, 2024. washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

NEWS: The Biden administration cracked down on nursing homes, issuing new minimum staffing requirements that a KFF analysis says most facilities don’t meet.

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Hank Green I literally just saved this from my writer’s discord

Elisabeth Rosenthal THANK YOU for speaking out about this. It's ironic that attempts to make us feel part of a 'family' or 'team' only alienate us. What if the $$$$s spent on the hype were used to reduce ... oh, I dunno ... maybe drug costs?

When will this abuse of language end? I get a specialty medicine, so got email that I'm now part of the Accredo 'family' and, as such have one of their 'advocates' on my side. I have a real family: a spouse, two great kids. kffhealthnews.org/news/article/n…

Great news Daniel Chang. This project won a Polk Award last week and is still going strong....

Lawsuit alleges call centers paid big bucks to buy names of people responding to misleading ads in scheme to switch Affordable Care Act plans without consumers’ consent, KFF Health News reports
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If you are a self-insured company, THE FASTEST WAY TO CREATE CASH is to get all employees and covered persons to switch from Humira to Yusimry. The first costs you 80k per year. Yusimry from costplusdrugs.com/medications/yu…
Cost 7,200 per year. That's $72,800 PER EMPLOYEE PER YEAR.
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So proud of the fabulous investigative journalists ⁦KFF Health News⁩ & ⁦CBS News⁩ for winning this Polk Award. Don’t trust FDA device scrutiny to keep you safe.

📢New paper alert! PE firms invest in physician practices to generate outsized returns on exit.

But what does exit look like? Over what timeline?

Measuring this activity has been difficult due to no transparency. My paper fills these gaps.

Calling the FTC? Research shows most mergers in healthcare decrease patient choice, increase price and decrease quality of care.

Thank you KMOX St. Louis News for inviting me to speak about the billions in opioid settlement funds that are flowing to state & local govts. #ICYMI , listen here: omny.fm/shows/total-in…

Federal ACA website adjusted so full Social Security numbers no longer easily accessed by licensed agents, KFF Health News reports kffhealthnews.org/news/article/a…

Fabulous accountability journalism from my colleagues!