Cancer patients endure an overlooked financial burden: hospital parking fees
For many patients, one of the most antagonizing parts of a hospital visit is paying…
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Limits of ‘Fauci effect’: infectious disease applicants plummet, and hospitals are scrambling
Tulane University touted “the chance to train in a unique & wonderful city.” The University…
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Opinion: Pediatricians and parents on the brink: This is their March 2020
In March 2020, as the Covid-19 pandemic swept across the United States, the nation’s pediatric…
STAT+: The health insurer will see you now: How UnitedHealth is keeping more profits, as your doctor
Next year, UnitedHealth Group — one of the largest health care companies on the planet…
Medical malpractice lawsuits, delayed by the pandemic, are hitting hospitals harder than expected
Carlos David Castro Rojas was a healthy 27-year-old engineering student when he fell off a…
‘The hospital never supported the midwives’: As more birth centers open, their viability hinges on nearby hospitals
BEVERLY, Mass. — It was fitting, one activist said, that the sky was storming on…
Opinion: The U.S. doesn’t need a new ‘essential hospital’ designation
A recent essay in Health Affairs, a prominent health care journal, proposed a useful-sounding idea:…
‘The more voice, the better’: How tech could bring a fuller picture of living with a disability to health records
Electronic health records don’t leave much room for nuance: On paper, two patients with the…
STAT+: UPMC, Advocate Aurora, Duke fighting lawsuits over use of Meta’s tracking tool
Five months after a media investigation revealed that hospitals were feeding Meta sensitive patient information…
STAT+: Google Cloud pitches ease and speed to lure health systems wary of tech changes
LAS VEGAS — Google has honed its message for hospital systems wary of moving their…
One-third of U.S. labs have stopped using race-based equations to diagnose kidney disease
Even as a child, La’Tonzia Adams was interested in diagnosing disease. One day, when she…
STAT+: ‘Digital health is late to the party’: Can telehealth help hospitals mitigate their carbon footprints?
As the world stares down the barrel of climate change, the health care system —…
STAT+: Patient groups push federal government to enforce health care price estimates
People don’t receive bills after going to a grocery store or a mechanic’s shop. They…
STAT+: A CEO’s plan to monetize health data rescued from IBM Watson’s wreckage
A company being built from the ashes of IBM’s Watson Health division is launching new…
STAT+: Hospital systems Sanford, Fairview plan to create $14 billion Midwest powerhouse
Two not-for-profit Midwest hospital systems are seeking to merge, creating what would be a health…
STAT+: Google travels far from Silicon Valley to test the power of search tools in health care
Mile Bluff Medical Center is a long way from Silicon Valley. The 40-bed hospital is…
Opinion: Violence against health care workers is on the rise. They deserve protection
There is no place for violence in civil society. Yet stabbings, shootings, threats and other…
STAT+: Unexpected troubles hit large medical billing firm R1 RCM, part-owned by Ascension
The stock price of R1 RCM tanked by roughly 50% this week after the large…
STAT+: Unexpected troubles hit large medical billing firm R1 RCM, part-owned by Ascension
The stock price of R1 RCM tanked by roughly 50% this week after the large…
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STAT+: Andreessen Horowitz partners with rural health system to give its companies a go-to pilot site
Innovative health tech startups with big ideas will not get very far if they cannot…
‘We’re sick of watching women die’: In Michigan, doctors rally to protect abortion access
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Doctors are on the frontlines of a political battle raging across…
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+: Microsoft’s note-taking tool asks doctors to make a grand bargain: Share patient data, and get your life back
The artificial intelligence system is a dream for many doctors: It records their conversations with…
Health and science are on the ballot this election. Here’s what we’re watching
WASHINGTON — The midterm elections this year are centered on weighty topics: the economy looms…
‘Our community is supported at the highest levels’: Adm. Rachel Levine on gender-affirming care
BOSTON — As the health and safety of trans and queer youth are jeopardized across…
How doulas could help prevent the harms that can happen during childbirth
When Tamiya Griffin was expecting her first child in 2014, she had what she thought…
Opinion: Respiratory infection surge sounds a wake-up call for pediatric emergency care
“Mommy. Daddy. I can’t breathe.” Waking up to those words is terrifying for any parent….
STAT+: Medicare punts on quality rules for new type of rural hospital
Hospitals that decide to convert to a new type of rural provider won’t have to…
STAT+: Physicians rally to avert Medicare payment cuts
The federal government is officially reducing Medicare payments to physicians next year by 4.5%, but…
Opinion: Give Americans the right to save on health care
Dani Yuengling, a 35-year-old South Carolinian, had a family history of fatal breast cancer. So…
STAT+: Advanced practice clinicians slightly more likely to take industry funding than doctors
A slightly larger share of nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other advanced practice clinicians accept…
Opinion: Hospitals need to make their websites as accessible as their physical spaces
It would be anathema for a health care facility in the U.S. to have a…
STAT+: Private equity’s Welsh Carson, casting itself as a noble force, relentlessly pursues profits in health care
Before the allegations of neglect, before the lawsuits, before the government investigations, the health care…
Montana may be moving away from its innovative plan for setting hospital prices for public workers
Montana is signaling it might step away from an innovative way of setting the prices…
STAT+: Republican ideas to reform Medicare could rile health care industry
WASHINGTON — Democrats are suddenly blasting Republicans on the campaign trail over a surprising new…
‘If I were a hospital, I’d be reading the tea leaves’: Pressures grow on the health care industry to reduce its climate pollution
Flooding, heat waves, wildfires, and other climate-driven weather extremes in recent years have catapulted hospitals…
Opinion: Keeping families out of ICUs no longer makes sense as the pandemic eases
On, December 9, 2020, my mom, brother, and I waited in a cold, wintery drizzle…
STAT+: Epic’s overhaul of a flawed algorithm shows why AI oversight is a life-or-death issue
Epic, the nation’s dominant seller of electronic health records, was bracing for a catastrophe. It…
Opinion: Medical professionals: Make your plan to vote now. Then vote!
The U.S. is less than three weeks from the 2022 midterm elections, which will decide…
STAT+: This summer’s Covid surge was bad for hospital profits
This summer’s Covid-19 surge put a sizable dent in hospital finances, with two large investor-owned…
In Fiona-ravaged Puerto Rico, hospitals were prioritized over health clinics for diesel, exacerbating rural health disparities
When Hurricane Fiona knocked out power across the entire island of Puerto Rico, hospitals turned…
STAT+: Even as large health systems bleed money, children’s hospitals are faring well
Children’s hospitals were spared from the worst ravages of the pandemic, putting them in a…
Opinion: CBO’s dismissal of health care price transparency is based on faulty premises
Can price transparency meaningfully reduce the outrageous cost of health care and coverage? I believe…
STAT+: Medicare tasks a senior adviser with staffing its new drug pricing division
WASHINGTON — Medicare has tasked a senior adviser at the agency with assembling a small…
STAT+: Errors have plagued insurance directories of doctors. The government wants to clean them up with its own
The federal government wants to create a national directory that houses accurate, up-to-date information for…
‘History is repeating itself’: The story of the nation’s first clinic for gender-affirming surgery
Nearly 60 years ago, Johns Hopkins Hospital opened a first-of-its-kind clinic to provide gender-affirming surgery….
Get a Ph.D. in health policy — from a single Powerpoint slide
Looking for an actually concise explanation of a half-century’s worth of research and arguments about…
Harassment prompts children’s hospitals to strip websites, threatening access to gender-affirming care
Children’s hospitals that have been targeted on social media for providing gender-affirming care — and…
Opinion: How health systems can truly value Black lives: help close the racial wealth gap
Institutional declarations of support for Black lives were ubiquitous in the aftermath of the murder…
STAT+: A ‘disaster’, or a ‘clear path’ forward?: New FDA guidance on AI in medicine sparks strong reactions
New guidance from the Food and Drug Administration is triggering strong reaction from researchers and…