STAT+: Nursing shortage at Mass. hospitals leads to multimillion-dollar costs
A widespread shortage of nurses at Massachusetts hospitals is only getting more extreme, with an…
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STAT+: ‘Eye-opening’: The pandemic accelerated antimicrobial resistance across the U.S.
Resistance to medicines for combating superbugs has considerably worsened during the pandemic, with deaths and…
Opinion: Hospitals and for-profit PBMs are diverting billions in 340B savings from patients in need
America’s economically disadvantaged patients can point in two directions when talking about what is wrong…
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Opinion: Are tax-exempt hospitals giving back their fair share to communities? It depends on what you count
Nonprofit hospitals in the U.S. are exempt from most taxes. To earn this status, they…
Opinion: STAT+: Why health care organizations need to invest in workforce career advancement
In a tight health care labor market, health care companies must be creative in attracting…
‘A scary time’: Fear of prosecution forces doctors to choose between protecting themselves or their patients
Last Wednesday, a patient walked into Julie Rhee’s fertility clinic in St. Louis with pelvic…
STAT+: Medicare wants to stop publishing some hospital safety data next year
Ann MacDonald took painstaking effort to choose the very best surgeon for her mom’s colon…
STAT+: Hospitals have to post their prices. Now, health insurers and employers have to publish what they pay
The federal government’s latest push for more health care price transparency starts July 1, and…
STAT+: A rich Republican businessman is an unlikely champion for lower hospital prices — but he’s winning the fight
INDIANAPOLIS — Al Hubbard isn’t the typical crusader for lowering health care costs. Hubbard and…
Opinion: Now is not the time for Congress to further cut hospitals’ Medicare payments
As the U.S. slowly emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic, hospitals hope get back to some…
STAT+: Supreme Court rules in favor of insurance plan that pushed kidney failure patient to Medicare
Patients with kidney failure face a murky future if they have insurance coverage through a…
STAT+: HCA, Steward abandon hospital deal in another win for FTC
For-profit hospital chains HCA Healthcare and Steward Health Care have terminated their proposed hospital sales,…
Hospital data is funneled to Facebook, Verily’s business model, and virtual reality surgery
You’re reading the web edition of STAT Health Tech, our guide to how tech is…
STAT+: Facebook is receiving sensitive medical information from hospital websites
A tracking tool installed on many hospitals’ websites has been collecting patients’ sensitive health information…
Opinion: New report: gains in patient safety have stalled over the past decade
Hospital care helps patients recover from serious illness and injury but, all too often, patients…
STAT+: Supreme Court sides with hospitals on Medicare drug pay dispute
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday sided with hospitals in a legal dispute over…
STAT+: New Jersey hospitals scrap merger after FTC challenge
Two New Jersey hospital systems have called off their proposed merger less than two weeks…
STAT+: The FTC says it’s getting tougher on hospital consolidation. Antitrust experts aren’t buying it
After the Federal Trade Commission’s flashy announcements last week that it was suing to block…
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Language barriers keep parents from asking questions about their children’s care, study finds
Handoffs are one of the most dangerous times in a patient’s care: As one team…
STAT+: Florida hospital system sues religious sharing ministry over unpaid medical claims
Orlando Health is suing Liberty HealthShare, a Christian health care sharing ministry, alleging Liberty owes…
Opinion: Pursuit of profits is driving drug companies to break the 340B law
Seventeen drug companies, including some of the world’s largest, are flouting a 30-year-old federal program…
STAT+: Study suggests a new harm from hospital mergers: less price transparency
Health care economists argue hospital mergers can raise costs and lower quality. And now, a…
STAT+: The graveyard of health tech pilots: why some experiments flourish and others fizzle
Pilot programs are health tech’s proving ground: they let health systems test-drive new devices and…
STAT+: Justice Department says sweeping lab test fraud in Texas involved dozens of doctors and front companies
A new Justice Department lawsuit describes a sweeping fraud scheme in which dozens of Texas…
STAT+: Doctors in Arizona are trying to rewrite the surprise billing law to boost their own pay
Doctors in Arizona are crafting a state ballot measure that would modify the new federal…
California senators advance three bills meant to crack down on health insurers
You’re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and…
STAT+: There may be a backdoor way for hospitals to get paid for uninsured Covid-19 care
WASHINGTON — The federal health department shut down a program that paid hospitals and clinics…
STAT+: Proton cancer centers continue to proliferate, despite shaky benefits and checkered financiers
On May 12, the South Florida Proton Therapy Institute issued a warning to its investors:…
STAT+: Employers sue Advocate Aurora Health over alleged anticompetitive hospital contracts
An employer in Wisconsin has filed a class-action lawsuit against Advocate Aurora Health, alleging the…
Opinion: STAT+: A market failure is preventing efficient diffusion of health care AI software
Artificial intelligence (AI) software can improve patient care, but a key market failure is preventing…
Opinion: To improve safety, hospitals should make ‘radical transparency’ real — and accessible
Covid-19 may be receding, but it’s leaving a quiet menace lurking in hospitals in its…
STAT+: Life or death decisions and no feedback: New study highlights the value of patient tracking, especially in the ER
Back in the ‘80s, when Shamai Grossman was mulling which medical specialty to choose, the…
STAT+: Two dozen states side with HHS in its raucous dispute with pharma over a drug discount program
Two dozen states have waded into the heated dispute between the U.S. government and a…
Opinion: Turn off the spigot for hospitals’ Covid-19 relief funding
Hospitals are calling on Congress for more Covid-19 relief even though they had higher profit…
STAT+: Real estate firms own nearly 1 in 10 health care properties
Not all hospitals and nursing homes own the property they sit on, and new research…
STAT+: Advocate Aurora-Atrium’s mammoth merger: experts split on whether federal regulators will challenge the deal
The merger of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health, announced Wednesday, would create one of the…
Opinion: Listen: Get sick, go to the doctor, incur debt, repeat
Sickness can beget debt, which can then turn around and beget more sickness. That’s the…
STAT+: Omicron squeezed hospitals more than health insurers in the first quarter
The beginning of 2022 was kinder to health insurers than it was to hospitals. Many…
STAT+: Five of Congress’ 10 biggest health earmarks went to Missouri clinics and universities
WASHINGTON — Hospitals, health clinics, and medical schools across the country had hoped to cash…
Opinion: Beyond awareness: The medical system needs to deeply reform its care of people with autism
I walked into the hospital room of a patient I had been assigned that morning….
STAT+: Labor costs from Omicron surge drag Ascension into the red
Ascension lost more than $670 million from patient care in the first three months of…
AI can predict missed appointments. How can hospitals use that data for better care?
For every five appointments at Boston Children’s Hospital, one patient doesn’t show up. Missed appointments…
STAT+: Hospital giant Tenet sues OSHA for attempting to inspect hospital under Covid-19 worker safety rule
A large, investor-owned hospital chain is suing a federal agency, arguing workplace health officials don’t…
The doctor who is trying to bring back surprise billing
If Daniel Haller gets his way, surprise medical bills will be back in full force….
Federal antitrust case against Sutter Health headed for appeal
The long-running federal antitrust lawsuit against Sutter Health is getting a second wind after attorneys…
STAT+: Manchin won’t support new health policy unless Congress rolls back Trump tax cuts
WASHINGTON — Sen. Joe Manchin, a moderate Democrat who will determine how much domestic policy…
Opinion: How hospitals and health systems can help patients avoid medical debt
While the goal of the American health care system is to improve health and well-being,…
STAT+: Travel nurses remain pricey, and it’s weighing on hospital profits
An underwhelming first quarter at the country’s biggest hospital chain shows the pandemic’s stranglehold on…
STAT+: Nation’s top cancer hospitals slap hefty markups on drugs, study says
The nation’s preeminent cancer hospitals are charging commercial health insurers anywhere from double to seven…
STAT+: Hospitals have been financially propping up medical schools, but now it’s squeezing their bottom lines
Before Banner Health agreed to shore up a pair of financially struggling medical schools, leaders…