STAT+: Hospital giant Ascension recorded about $1.3 billion in losses from its cyberattack
The cyberattack that forced Ascension to shut off access to its electronic health records cost…
Category: hospitals
STAT+: What Medicare Advantage enrollment could look like for next year
You’re reading the web version of Health Care Inc., STAT’s weekly newsletter following the flow…
STAT+: How efforts to cancel medical debt could wind up benefitting hospitals
You’re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and…
STAT+: ‘Put him in jail.’ Steward CEO de la Torre skips hearing, now Congress is poised to hold him in contempt
Lawmakers in Washington turned their focus to the Steward Health Care bankruptcy scandal on Thursday,…
STAT+: Key Senate Republican throws cold water on Affordable Care Act repeal, site-neutral payment policy
WASHINGTON — A key Senate Republican dismissed the idea that the Affordable Care Act can…
STAT+: FDA commissioner: Health systems have to ‘step up’ on AI regulation or will ‘end up holding the bag’
WELLESLEY, Mass. — Amid heated discussions on how artificial intelligence should be regulated and who…
STAT+: How hospitals could make money off of Kamala Harris’ medical debt relief plan
WASHINGTON — The largest health system in North Carolina simply wasn’t interested in canceling its…
STAT+: Q&A: For this South Dakota health system, leaning into telehealth means learning ‘webside’ manner
Fighting a massive snowstorm to get to the doctor in the Dakotas is an unpleasant…
Opinion: Why so many patients are confused about CPR and do-not-resuscitate orders
When a patient is admitted to the hospital in the U.S., there’s a standard question…
STAT+: Elevance buys IU Health’s insurance company
Elevance Health, the parent of more than a dozen state Blue Cross Blue Shield plans,…
STAT+: How powerful hospitals helped take R1 RCM private
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STAT+: Ascension, other hospitals played active roles to take medical billing company R1 RCM private
Private equity firms are leading the buyout of R1 RCM, a major provider of billing…
STAT+: Dana-Farber CEO Laurie Glimcher to step down, saying ‘we must look to the next generation’
Laurie H. Glimcher, chief executive of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, said she would step down next…
STAT+: HCA and UnitedHealth resolve contract disputes in four states hours before deadline
HCA Healthcare and UnitedHealthcare reached agreements just hours before their contracts were scheduled to expire…
Abortion rights and drug pricing program take spotlight at first night of DNC
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Patient volumes have stormed back into hospitals
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STAT+: Peter Orszag wants the FTC and DOJ to stop challenging health care mergers
Peter Orszag was instrumental in crafting the Affordable Care Act. Now, he wants federal antitrust…
Opinion: Private equity: health care’s vampire
Private equity firms are sucking the resources out of America’s hospitals and nursing homes, and…
STAT+: UnitedHealthcare’s latest contract dispute, this time with Trinity Health, leaves thousands out-of-network
A widespread, monthslong contract dispute between UnitedHealthcare and Trinity Health has created a confusing patchwork…
Morning Rounds: The billionaire who wants you angry about the food supply
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STAT+: Why U.S. health care cybersecurity laws are better at protecting a corpse’s privacy than patients’ lives
Two days into a cyberattack on his hospital system, Nate Couture reached the end of…
STAT+: Orlando Health, a $6 billion Florida powerhouse, is expanding into Alabama
As for-profit Tenet Healthcare slims its hospital portfolio, it found an unlikely buyer for its…
STAT+: Tim Walz stood up to corporate health care. Mayo Clinic was a powerful exception.
MINNEAPOLIS — Even for the most progressive of politicians, money talks. And elite nonprofit hospitals…
Opinion: How the restaurant drama ‘The Bear’ mirrors working in a hospital
Many chefs describe the television series “The Bear” as an accurate portrayal of the demands…
More heart patients getting prompt post-hospital care, but disparities increase
Recovery from a cardiac-related hospitalization requires coordinated, timely care to prevent a return to the…
STAT+: UnitedHealth and HCA clash over hospital chain’s rates in ‘battle of the giants’
Contract disputes between hospitals and health plans have become routine, but they tend to be…
What we do and don’t know about the shortage of blood culture bottles
In July, federal health officials warned hospitals that there would be a critical shortage of…
STAT+: Private equity firms to acquire health care billing and payments firm R1 in $8.9 billion deal
R1 RCM is finally getting taken off the public markets, ending a months-long saga between…
STAT+: For-profit hospitals are getting a boost from a flood of patients
You’re reading the web version of Health Care Inc., STAT’s weekly newsletter following the flow of money…
STAT+: Powerful Senate committee demands testimony from CEO of bankrupt Steward hospital chain
Federal lawmakers investigating the Steward Health Care bankruptcy moved on Thursday to compel testimony from…
STAT+: Do medical errors creep up at hospitals when interns arrive? Yes, but the ‘July effect’ is minimal.
For Dr. Jeremy Faust, July 1 is like New Year’s Day. That’s when thousands of…
Watch: How insurers use doctors to profit off medical codes
Insurers like UnitedHealth are profiting off of the Medicare Advantage system, and it’s causing problems…
Hospitals, labs, and health departments try to cope with blood culture bottle shortage
Hospitals across the country are facing a severe shortage of supplies of blood culture bottles,…
Opinion: Real-time vital signs data: a hidden source of value in medical AI
If data represents the next gold rush for health care, a vast treasure trove of…
STAT+: Data privacy startup raises $30 million, to ease health care providers’ regulatory burden
Federal guidance restricting hospital websites’ use of third-party trackers along with the proliferation of direct-to-consumer…
STAT+: Medicare pay proposals are good news for health tech, bad news for docs
You’re reading the web version of Health Care Inc., STAT’s weekly newsletter following the flow…
STAT+: Biden administration ignores calls to bolster hospital price transparency
The federal government will not modify regulations that dictate how hospitals publish their prices for…
STAT+: Sanford Health aims to shake off a run of failed deals by snapping up a $3 billion Wisconsin health system
Fourth time’s the charm? Sanford Health is hoping so. Less than a year after scrapping…
STAT+: The pharmaceutical industry keeps losing Washington friends
You’re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and…
STAT+: Pulling back the curtain on psychiatric hospital joint ventures
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STAT+: Troubled for-profit chains are stealthily operating dozens of psychiatric hospitals under nonprofits’ names
Come quickly, the Columbus Police sergeant urged, patients are in danger. The psychiatric hospital on…
STAT+: Former Mass General president Peter Slavin will run Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles
Peter Slavin, who ran Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston for nearly two decades before stepping…
STAT+: Steward Health Care spent millions on surveillance of its critics — even amid financial crisis
This story was reported by Hanna Krueger, Jessica Bartlett, Mark Arsenault, and Elizabeth Koh. It was written by Krueger…
STAT+: Ascension is racing to unload hospitals as execs work to stem losses
For 15 years, a formidable CEO-CFO duo often called “the two Tonys” ushered their St….
STAT+: Medicare’s big experiment to fix kidney failure care hasn’t worked so far, studies say
A few years ago, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services launched a big experiment….
STAT+: Optum walks away from its agreement to buy Steward’s doctors network
Health care provider Optum has backed away from its plan to purchase Steward Health Care’s…
Supreme Court kicks Idaho emergency abortion ban back to lower court
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday released an opinion allowing emergency abortions in Idaho but…
Standalone organ donor centers have sprouted all over the U.S. Do they work better than hospitals?
Not much sets the world of transplant medicine abuzz. But in the early 2000s, a…
STAT+: HHS finalizes penalties for providers resorting to ‘information blocking’
The federal government has cemented a key part of its strategy for making patients’ medical…
STAT+: Steward Health Care executives are mired in trouble at home. In Malta, it’s much worse
VALLETTA, Malta — The most sweeping corruption trial in the history of this Mediterranean country…