STAT+: Google and Fitbit launch new cloud tools to help hospitals use wearables
Google Cloud and Fitbit are rolling out a new offering they hope will ease some…
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Medicare Advantage boosterism, providers’ surprise billing savior in Texas, and a health insurance firewall
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Can blockchain solve health care’s security problems? The financial industry offers a valuable case study
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STAT+: Envision Healthcare teeters on the brink of bankruptcy
Envision Healthcare, the large chain of outpatient surgery centers and physician staffing services for hospitals,…
Epic hits a crossroads, judge rules on UnitedHealth’s Change bid, & Meta faces health data pressure
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Opinion: Hospital financing in black and white
During our training as doctors, we have rotated through safety-net hospitals, elite academic medical centers,…
STAT+: Minimal compliance, or meaningful change? Epic faces a crossroads as new rules put pressure on health data sharing
In the business of selling record-keeping software to hospitals, Epic Systems is breaking away from…
Meta faces mounting questions from Congress on health data privacy as hospitals remove Facebook tracker
Meta is facing mounting questions about its access to sensitive medical data following a Markup…
A teaching hospital payout, Humana flirts with Wall Street, and new dialysis incentives
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STAT+: Lawmaker requests investigation into HCA over billing practices
WASHINGTON — A Democratic House lawmaker with oversight authority is calling for an investigation into the…
Raising a RUC-kus, Blues’ antitrust deal appealed, & a UAE deal
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STAT+: UnitedHealth signs a deal with Walmart for a new Medicare Advantage plan
UnitedHealth Group is poised to widen its lead in the Medicare Advantage market through a…
Opinion: As hospitals raise their prices, U.S. workers and businesses suffer
Despite a recent taxpayer-subsidized boon, the hospital industry spent the last several months lobbying for…
Opinion: The No Surprises Act: A Band-Aid protecting business as usual
The No Surprises Act has been hailed as a major bipartisan reform aiming to eliminate…
Surprise billing legal limbo & device price persuasion
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STAT+: Fed up with costly, onerous recertification, doctors are turning to an alternative board
While taking the exam to renew his physician specialty certification, pulmonologist Jordan Metcalf got hung…
A pandemic push for data sharing could pay off for pregnancy research
Despite stubbornly high maternal mortality in the United States, pregnancy is still woefully under-researched. But…
‘So much more to do’: A hospital system’s campaign to confront racism — and resistance to change — makes early strides
BOSTON — When a routine cancer screening came back showing an elevated PSA reading, George…
STAT+: How North Carolina hospitals justify thwarting Medicaid expansion
North Carolina hospitals just helped kill a major expansion of the state’s Medicaid program. Both…
STAT+: Hospitals wrangle billions in FEMA funding to offset Covid costs
More hospitals are tapping into billions of dollars from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to…
STAT+: Biden administration largely stands firm on its method for resolving surprise billing disputes
The Biden administration largely stood firm on its plan for resolving disputes over surprise medical…
STAT+: Hospital mergers that dodge antitrust scrutiny lead to dramatically higher prices, study finds
Hospitals that merge under state regulations that shield them from federal scrutiny tend to eventually…
Opinion: Medical error: An epidemic compounded by a culture of silence
Covid-19 turned hospitals into battlefields. Wards burst at the seams, caregivers died in the thousands,…
STAT+: Bright Health Group heads toward insolvency as it rushes to raise more cash
A little more than a year after going public, Bright Health Group is in danger…
Private equity’s latest fixation & the ACA subsidy spigot
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Parents and clinicians say private equity’s profit fixation is short-changing kids with autism
ATLANTA — When a new person comes into his living room, a giggly “E” smiles…
Access to trauma care is improving across the country, but progress remains uneven
Six years ago, an expert panel made a strong suggestion to the White House: set…
A lobbying frenzy over surprise billing, employer dialysis questions, and a big broker throwdown
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STAT+: Health care industry swarms Washington as surprise billing rules get ironed out
Solving surprise medical bills was supposed to be straightforward. It has been anything but. Already,…
Opinion: STAT+: Hospitals, health systems play critical roles in the real-world data movement
Since the start of the pandemic, the health care and life sciences sectors have relied…
STAT+: Hospitals win higher payments from Medicare after lobbying campaign
Hospitals secured significantly larger payments from Medicare for 2023, after months of lobbying centered around…
Wall Street’s love affair with insurers, hospitals pressure Medicare, and swimming in a risk pool
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Opinion: Americans deserve better than ‘destination hallway’ in emergency departments and hospital wards
As the literal and figurative front door to many hospitals, the emergency department can offer…
Buprenorphine treatment for veterans with opioid use disorder increased as care shifted to telehealth during Covid, study finds
Drug treatment of veterans with opioid use disorder increased during the first year of the…
Opinion: Value-based payment has produced little value. It needs a time-out
The value-based payment crusade is now two decades old. But despite the tens of billions…
Opinion: Clinician-administrator relationships are ‘on life support.’ Here’s how to heal them
Much has been written about the decades-long erosion of the once-solid relationship between patients and…
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Patients’ new credit card crunch, Amazon’s getting serious, and inflation has entered the chat
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Collateral damage of the Fed’s interest rate hikes: People who put medical bills on credit cards
Tiffany Yarina didn’t max out her credit card from a home renovation or luxury purchase….
STAT+: A troubling report on Cerner’s VA rollout offers a rare look into the hidden harms of health records
The rollout of Cerner’s electronic health record in Veterans Affairs hospitals has been a high-profile…
Opinion: New price transparency regulations for hospitals, insurers empower patients
Many Americans are accustomed to shopping around for the best deal. We can access reams…
STAT+: Serving as a ‘clinical colleague,’ AI shows potential to reduce sepsis deaths in real-world studies
Three studies published Thursday found that an AI platform developed by Bayesian Health and Johns…
STAT+: As health care faces nursing shortages, burned-out nurses are flocking to remote jobs
Burned out and fed up with their work conditions, nurses are leaving the bedside in…
STAT+: Medicare offers financial perks for rural hospitals that convert to its new provider type. Will they bite?
The federal government is hashing out the details on a new type of rural hospital,…
A CEO pay bonanza, how much the rank and file are paid, and a wilderness therapy rabbit hole
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STAT+: HCA Healthcare, Cigna chiefs top the lists of best-paid CEOs among providers, insurers
Health insurers and providers often argue over payments at the negotiating table, but in the…
Biotech employees cash in health care’s largest salaries, while people working at providers sit near the bottom
It pays to be in the lab. It pays way less to be at the…
Health care’s high rollers: As the pandemic raged, CEOs’ earnings surged
Health care’s top executives sat comfortably atop their perch during the second year of the…
Opinion: Congress: Don’t let hospital care at home shrivel when the public health emergency ends
During surges of Covid-19, providing hospital-level care in the home was a good alternative to…
Google’s latest cloud deal, the FTC’s privacy fight, and the future of brain-computer interfaces
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STAT+: One health system’s six-year odyssey to meet its patients’ needs outside the clinic
Manisha Parulekar knew her aging patients needed extra support outside the walls of her clinic….