Tara covers the business of health care. Her stories focus on hospitals, doctors, and how their business practices affect patients — especially when private equity gets involved. She also writes about ...

On May 22, House Republicans passed their budget reconciliation omnibus — the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” — which would cut hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicaid, among other ...

Behavioral healthcare is a vital, fast-growing cost driver, but without aggressive oversight, these rapidly expanding programs become ripe for waste, exploitation and fraud.

Recent literature has focused on the impact of the differential adoption by states of the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion. However, additional Medicaid policy dimensions exist where state ...