NEW: Kaiser Permanente websites may have sent data on millions to tech giants including Google, Microsoft and X. The health plan is preparing to notify 13.4 million patients next month.

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Doctors across the US are stretching to keep their practices afloat as a debilitating cyberattack on Change Healthcare continues to cause havoc weeks.

More on how $UNH & the US are responding to the crisis, below. With the wonderful John Tozzi + Ike Swetlitz: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

A escalating dispute over price hikes between UnitedHealthcare and Mount Sinai Health System has thousands of New Yorkers facing disruptions to their medical care.

With John Tozzi via Bloomberg:

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Alexey Navalny, the Russian anti-corruption activist who became the most potent voice in opposition to President Vladimir Putin, has died, Interfax reports. He was 47. trib.al/aBxPOJH

yesterday's big take pod, produced by David Fox, features John Tozzi's reporting on hospital pricing disparities. listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why…

The increase in insurance premiums has taken as much as 19% of workers' comp – and low-income workers as well as Black and Hispanic families are affected the most. I spoke to John Tozzi about my latest research in JAMA ⬇️ bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

🚨NEW: A Johnson & Johnson worker sues the company alleging that J&J's health plan overpaid for prescription drugs, costing workers money.

It paid $10,000 for a drug that pharmacies sell for as little as $40, the suit says.

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SCOOP: One-fifth of US hospitals have been warned that they've violated rules requiring them to disclose prices.

The government hasn't made their names public, but records we got show they're from some of the biggest US hospital systems.

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The Cigna Medicare Advantage divestiture process is heating up, with HCSC and Elevance (the insurer formerly known as Anthem) vying for the $3b+ business. Latest:
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The CDC’s making it easier to use all the data it collects from testing sewage for Covid and other pathogens

The application for the next Knight-Bagehot class is open!

Come spend a fun and challenging year at Columbia learning the basics of business and economics. Happy to answer your questions on Zoom this Thursday, Nov 16, at 11 am EST. Register here: apply.jrn.columbia.edu/register/Nov16

NEW with Casey Ross: All year, we’ve been probing how Medicare Advantage plans have denied care based on predictions generated by an algorithm. New documents show the problem goes deeper at UnitedHealth Group and NaviHealth. statnews.com/2023/11/14/uni…

SCOOP: Walgreens-backed clinic chain VillageMD is cutting bonuses, retirement fund match amid broader effort to reduce expenses
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NEW: As brokers work the phones to sell Medicare Advantage plans, Congress is taking a closer look at the money changing hands between insurers and the middlemen who sell their plans.

Senate Finance committee is discussing now. More here:

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