STAT+: UnitedHealth appears to be upping loan offers to providers, after Change cyberattack
UnitedHealth Group appears to be offering some providers more substantial loans in the wake of…
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STAT+: UnitedHealth gives timeline for Change restoration: payments up by late next week
Change Healthcare’s parent company said it’ll have its electronic payment function up and running by…
STAT+: Large insurers say up to one-quarter of claims run through Change Healthcare
Some of the country’s biggest health insurers said Tuesday that up to one-quarter of their…
STAT+: Change Healthcare cyber attack outage could persist for weeks, UnitedHealth Group executive implies
The outage caused by the Change Healthcare cyberattack could last weeks, a top UnitedHealth executive…
STAT+: UnitedHealth cyberattack cripples pharmacies’ and hospitals’ ability to process insurance claims
Hospitals, pharmacies, and other health care providers are getting stuck in an insurance processing logjam…
Promising red-light myopia treatment for children is raising safety concerns among experts
Myopia, or near-sightedness, is on the rise: Nearly half of the world’s population will be…
STAT+: Physician buy-in will make or break VC firm General Catalyst’s bold hospital deal
It makes sense in theory for hospitals and startups to strike deals. Not only would…
STAT+: Lawmakers press CMS to release new breakthrough device coverage rule
WASHINGTON — An array of lawmakers called for a simpler reimbursement pathway for breakthrough devices…
Medicare’s midterm punts, MA marketing schemes, and a closer look at the Abiomed deal
You’re reading the web edition of Health Care Inc., STAT’s weekly newsletter following the flow…
STAT+: Congress considers a longer phase-out of looser, Covid-era telehealth policies
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers are considering extending the more flexible telehealth policies put in place during the…
STAT+: Researchers question whether Amazon’s partnership with Teladoc will really improve access to health care
Amazon and Teladoc have pitched a new feature letting millions of consumers call doctors directly…
STAT+: Verily shakes up its leadership team, with a new president and a shift for CEO Conrad
Alphabet’s life sciences arm Verily is in the midst of a shakeup of its leadership….
STAT+: Could Robert Califf’s ties to tech complicate his FDA nomination?
WASHINGTON — Robert Califf spent his first confirmation hearing explaining his entanglements with the drug…
STAT+: Could wearable tech — and AI — change how we diagnose infants with conditions like cerebral palsy?
An unlikely team of engineers and mobility researchers has developed an experimental set of small,…
STAT+: The new vision for the now-merged Doctor on Demand and Grand Rounds begins to take shape
In May, two privately held health tech startups — Doctor on Demand and Grand Rounds…
STAT+: ‘My jaw dropped’: Basic security flaws in third-party apps leave millions of patient records at risk
In the last year, cyberattacks on hospitals have surged, putting a spotlight on the need…
With Amwell’s deal, the acquisition race heats up in telehealth
You’re reading the web edition of STAT Health Tech, our guide to how tech is…
STAT+: If Apple takes aim at fall-prevention, will the rest of the health system hear it?
Using troves of data from iPhone users, Apple thinks it’s cracked an elusive problem: Identifying…
STAT+: In a new role at health tech startup Maven, Neel Shah wants to make sure pregnant people aren’t ‘lost’
When celebrated Boston OB-GYN Neel Shah first learned of the chance to help build a…
STAT+: Washington’s antitrust push could limit Amazon, Google’s health care ambitions
WASHINGTON — Washington is abuzz with an ambitious new antitrust effort to rein in the…
STAT+: Experts debate the value of digital coaching for type 2 diabetes
Even before the pandemic drove an extreme shift toward telemedicine, diabetes care was leading the…
STAT+: Key science officials detail their plans for a new research agency — and Congress is getting closer to funding it
WASHINGTON — Two key federal health officials are pitching a new branch of the National…
Will you accept this capital investment? Biotech and health startups bet on a strange new reality show for crowdfunding
“Mount up! Let’s hear more about this unicorn.” So begins every episode of a new…
STAT+: Verily’s new big hire, Amy Abernethy, on her plans to transform clinical trials — and bring in money
As personnel moves go, the hiring of Amy Abernethy by Verily is about as big…
STAT+: ‘More Amazon and less pharmacy’: one exec on the company’s strategy for prescription drugs
Amazon’s objectives for its nascent pharmacy business are straightforward: “better selection, better convenience, and better…
‘X to the Z’: San Francisco official pushes city to condemn public hospital’s Zuckerberg name
A San Francisco city official is introducing a resolution to condemn the city’s public hospital…
STAT Plus: Contract offers unprecedented look at Google deal to obtain patient data from the University of California
SAN FRANCISCO — It was the fall of 2015 when researchers from Google and the…