STAT+: Biden administration favors insurers over doctors in controversial new surprise billing regulations
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Thursday sided with insurers over physicians and other health…
Category: hospitals
Opinion: Covid-19 has revealed the hazards of blocking physician-owned hospitals
Covid-19 caught the U.S. flatfooted. With supply shortages, the availability of intensive care unit beds,…
See how much Covid-19 relief money health care providers in your state got
Congress set up a massive, $178 billion fund in 2020 meant to help mitigate the…
STAT+: Federal officials move closer to penalizing drug makers for failing to offer discounts to safety-net hospitals
Following a year of controversy, the Health Resources and Services Administration is taking steps to…
A hospital, and a family, lost during the pandemic
DAWSON, Ga. — When the days feel too hard, Latasha Taylor finds peace standing…
Opinion: Seeing the butterfly effect in hospital transfers for Covid-19 patients
Can a young man with Covid-19 pneumonia in the emergency department of an Oklahoma hospital…
STAT+: Safety-net hospitals take big markups on cancer drugs for commercially insured patients, study finds
Hospitals participating in a federal drug discount program marked up cancer medicines four times for…
STAT+: Stanford spins out a company to tap old patient data to answer new questions
A company is launching out of Stanford University on Wednesday to tackle one of the…
Virtual Event: The 340B drug discount program is at a crossroads. What’s next?
Editor’s note: A livestream of the event will be embedded below at 1 p.m. ET….
Elizabeth Holmes trial set to resume, with more insider testimony
You’re reading the web edition of STAT Health Tech, our guide to how tech is…
Opinion: Medicine must ‘widen the doors’ to people of color
The pandemic and the death of George Floyd put a glaring spotlight on the gross…
Biden administration releases $25 billion in Covid relief for providers after months of delay
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Friday announced plans to release more than $25 billion to…
Opinion: Hospital mergers and acquisitions are a bad deal for patients. Why aren’t they being stopped?
Contrary to what health care executives advertise, hospital mergers and acquisitions aren’t good for patients….
STAT+: The next front in the health care cloud wars
After a mad rush to roll out telehealth offerings during the pandemic, the value of…
Opinion: ‘This Is My Story’: connecting clinicians with hospitalized patients who can’t speak for themselves
During the maelstrom of Covid-19 in April 2020, I assisted in a birth at Johns…
STAT+: Biden health department hires four outside firms to audit Covid-19 grants to hospitals
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration has hired several separate outside contractors to police the billions…
Opinion: Florida doctor: This devastating Covid surge didn’t need to happen
I recently came across a photo of myself in late December 2020 getting my first…
Opinion: STAT+: Bringing clarity and consistency to CMS’s hospital price transparency rule will be a win for all
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) price transparency rule requiring U.S. hospitals to…
Opinion: That ‘damn machine’: the dark side of mechanical ventilators in the ICU
I walk in to Mr. W’s room to say hello. He is 73 years old…
‘It’s soul-draining’: Health workers deployed to Covid hot zones are overwhelmed by deaths among the unvaccinated
BATON ROUGE, La. — Bren Ingle watched through a set of twin glass doors as…
Elective surgeries are being delayed again. Doctors want to handle it differently this time
In the past month, Tampa’s BayCare Health System has seen a tenfold increase in Covid-19…
Opinion: Medically, legally, and morally, emergency departments cannot ignore addiction care
“My son Michael asked for help with his addiction to heroin,” a mother wrote in…
Opinion: STAT+: Viruses, variants, and the business of health care: Preparing for another wave now and the years ahead
We’re in a new phase of the Covid-19 pandemic in which new mutations will have…
Desperate for relief amid Covid-19, hospitals find an unusual ally in Susan Collins
WASHINGTON — The lobbying frenzy began late last month, as senators and the White House…
Opinion: The ethical implications of who judges what’s ‘necessary’ when it comes to emergency care
Last month, I rushed to a nearby hospital for emergency care after experiencing pelvic pain…
Opinion: Use systems redesign and the law to prevent medical errors and accidents
This summer, surgeons at University Hospitals in Cleveland transplanted a donor kidney into the wrong…
Alzheimer’s patients are in limbo as hospitals, insurers grapple with whether to offer Aduhelm
For all the explosive controversy over the approval of the first treatment for Alzheimer’s disease…
‘A mini-engineering feat’: High-tech headphones drown out the scary noises inside an MRI
For many people, entering the confinement of an MRI machine can be harrowing: Scans can…
STAT+: Hospitals and pharma are both on the hook to help fund infrastructure deal
WASHINGTON — Both hospitals and drug makers are on the hook to help pay for…
‘There is a real cost’: As Covid shows, barring bedside visitors from ICU deprives patients of the best care
For Teresa Ciappa, home was other people — and for the people in her life,…
In the same health system, Black patients are prescribed fewer opioids than white patients
Inequities in health care are pervasive, from access to quality of care, and a new…
Covid-19 kept families and caregivers out of hospitals. Some doctors think that shouldn’t happen again
PHILADELPHIA — On an early summer morning in North Philadelphia, Marsha El sits on a…
STAT+: Patient data company Truveta raises $95 million, secures new hospital partners
A company formed to aggregate and sell de-identified data on millions of American patients has…
Recent rulings may embolden hospital employees to speak publicly about safety issues
Karen Jo Young wrote a letter to her local newspaper criticizing executives at the hospital…
Organ donations held almost steady during the pandemic, as the U.S. transplant system scrambled to keep going
This is not a pandemic “silver lining” story. This is a could-have-been-far-worse story about how…
STAT+: Supreme Court to take up hospitals’ challenge to Medicare drug pay cuts
WASHINGTON — In a win for safety-net hospitals, the Supreme Court decided to hear their…
Opinion: Public reporting: the first step in addressing the health care industry’s bloated carbon footprint
The health care industry focuses on healing. Yet its pursuit of that mission can cause…
Opinion: Florence Nightingale in the age of Covid-19
Last May marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale. That her bicentennial…
Opinion: The Covid-19 relief bill created 1,000 more residency slots for new doctors. Wealthy hospitals should be last in line to get them
The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan that President Biden signed into law in March includes…
STAT+: HHS withdraws 340B drug discount opinion amid lawsuits by pharma companies
After a defeat in federal court, the Department of Health and Human Services withdrew an…
STAT+: A popular algorithm to predict sepsis misses most cases and sends frequent false alarms, study finds
It was a win win. Hospitals needed to prevent patient deaths from sepsis, a complication…
How a new buddy system is helping health workers grapple with Covid’s toll
Sylvia Perry had mainly worked in primary care before the Covid-19 pandemic hit. But as…
‘Nobody is catching it’: Algorithms used in hospitals nationwide are rife with bias
The algorithms carry out an array of crucial tasks: helping emergency rooms nationwide triage patients, …
STAT+: ‘A Lego kit for health care builders’: Jonathan Bush launches Zus with medical records in mind
Jonathan Bush is back for another act. On Thursday, the founder and former chief executive…
Children in rural areas face increasing barriers to pediatric care, study finds
Hospital beds for children with asthma, pneumonia, viral infections, and other serious illnesses have declined…
Changing the equation: Researchers remove race from a calculator for childbirth
Since 2007, obstetricians have counseled patients planning to give birth after a previous C-section with…
Shuttered hospitals, soaring Covid-19 deaths: Rural Black communities lose a lifeline in the century’s worst health crisis
DAWSON, Ga. — In every corner of Latasha Taylor’s home are plants she knows nothing…
STAT+: Health care providers hope to cash in through Congress’ new earmark process
WASHINGTON — Earmarks are back, and so is the health care industry’s insatiable appetite to…
‘Swept under the carpet’: When health records are held ransom, patients are the hardest hit — and last to know
Allison Savage waited years for surgery to remove the elongated bones at the base of…
STAT+: Feds tell drug makers to offer discounts to safety-net hospitals or face penalties
After a year of controversy, the Health Resources and Services Administration notified six large drug…