STAT+: UnitedHealth reaffirms financial outlook despite up to $1.6 billion hit from Change Healthcare cyberattack
Hospitals and medical groups say they’re still reeling from the effects of the cyberattack on…
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Medicare expects a big spike in spending on Leqembi
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STAT+: Mass General Brigham is ready to move on without Dana-Farber, CEO says
CHICAGO — The split between Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Mass General Brigham has been messy….
Opinion: Hospitals that make profits should pay taxes
As diligent taxpayers breathe a sigh of relief that the hassle of filing their tax…
HCA’s charity care filings are on hyperdrive
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STAT+: HCA reports almost $1 billion more in charity care to Medicare than to its shareholders, drawing more taxpayer money
The country’s biggest hospital chain, HCA Healthcare, told the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services…
Opinion: Hospital care costs are out of control. Price caps can help
Here’s just the tip of the iceberg: $722.50 for a nurse to push a drug…
STAT+: Mass. senators assail Steward Health Care during hearing on firm’s struggling hospitals
Senators Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday slammed Steward Health Care and its embattled…
STAT+: Biden administration sticks with slight cuts to 2025 Medicare Advantage payments
Over the past few weeks, Medicare Advantage insurers demanded that the Biden administration give them…
Why a bill meant to stop surprise medical bills hasn’t worked
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New HHS guidance requires consent for pelvic, breast, and other sensitive examinations
Hospitals performing pelvic and other sensitive exams for training purposes without patients’ explicit consent, including…
STAT+: UnitedHealth’s surprising new target: Struggling Steward’s physician group
UnitedHealth Group has gobbled up physician practices at an astounding rate — roughly 20,000 last…
STAT+: Washington wants to avert another Change Healthcare-like fiasco. Here’s what could be coming
Washington is cracking down on the technology running behind the scenes in health care following…
STAT+: Steward Health Care has deal to sell doctor network to UnitedHealth
Troubled hospital operator Steward Health Care, grappling with a financial crisis that’s engulfed its eight…
STAT+: Some nonprofit hospitals spend less on charity care than they receive in tax breaks, new analysis shows
A new study of hospitals’ charity care spending suggests nonprofit hospitals really aren’t that different…
STAT+: Nvidia says generative AI will revolutionize health care. So did IBM, with Dr. Watson
The health care sector is a notorious laggard when it comes to technology. It was…
STAT+: How a for-profit health system’s push to expand ended in disappointment for a tiny island nation
Protesters in the tiny Mediterranean nation of Malta converged last October on the 18th-century Baroque palace…
STAT+: Hospitals turn to sports performance centers to offer athletes elite care — for the right price
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Jodi Cullity calls herself a pickleball fanatic. The 29-year-old is the founding…
STAT+: UnitedHealth appears to be upping loan offers to providers, after Change cyberattack
UnitedHealth Group appears to be offering some providers more substantial loans in the wake of…
STAT+: Q&A: Amid AI frenzy in medicine, a federal regulator’s quest to create safeguards
Micky Tripathi is equal parts excited — and deeply concerned — about the technological change…
STAT+: RaDonda Vaught, former Vanderbilt nurse who accidentally killed patient, says hospital issues contributed, too
Speaking before a virtual audience of CommonSpirit Health employees, RaDonda Vaught, the former nurse who…
STAT+: AI health care companies say they’ll keep humans in the loop. But what does that actually mean?
Developers of artificial intelligence models slowly making their way into medicine have long parried ethical…
STAT+: “It’s a bit chaotic”: Hospitals struggle to validate AI-generated clinical summaries
Rob Bart remembers what it felt like, the moment of discovery. As an intern at…
STAT+: For-profit health system’s Mass. hospitals teetering on the brink of financial disaster
Steward Health Care’s Massachusetts hospitals are on the brink of financial disaster. But in many…
STAT+: Medicare announces loan program to aid providers affected by Change cyberattack
Medicare announced on Saturday that it will make advance payments available to physician groups, hospitals,…
STAT+: UnitedHealth gives timeline for Change restoration: payments up by late next week
Change Healthcare’s parent company said it’ll have its electronic payment function up and running by…
STAT+: Oracle Health chair says Cerner isn’t competing with Epic
Cerner may have ceded U.S. business to reigning electronic health records market leader Epic Systems,…
Opinion: Charging patients to message their doctors mostly benefits major hospital systems
Thinking about messaging your physician about a weird rash? You may want to hold off…
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STAT+: Large insurers say up to one-quarter of claims run through Change Healthcare
Some of the country’s biggest health insurers said Tuesday that up to one-quarter of their…
STAT+: Explaining Change Healthcare and the gravity of its cyberattack
The cyberattack on Change Healthcare has fractured the country’s health care payment infrastructure. But it…
STAT+: RaDonda Vaught, nurse that accidentally killed patient, to speak at CommonSpirit event on patient safety
CommonSpirit Health is hosting an educational event this month featuring RaDonda Vaught, the Tennessee nurse…
STAT+: Change Healthcare cyber attack outage could persist for weeks, UnitedHealth Group executive implies
The outage caused by the Change Healthcare cyberattack could last weeks, a top UnitedHealth executive…
STAT+: Experts say scale of Change cyberattack shows risk of centralized claims processing
Change Healthcare’s recent cyberattack has hospitals, doctors’ offices, and pharmacies across the country reeling as…
STAT+: Congress ditches site-neutral hospital pay policy
WASHINGTON — Congress will not move forward with a controversial policy to equalize certain Medicare…
STAT+: Private equity firm offers $5.8 billion buyout of hospital billing company R1 RCM
R1 RCM, a large publicly traded technology company that helps hospitals and physicians collect money…
STAT+: UnitedHealth cyberattack cripples pharmacies’ and hospitals’ ability to process insurance claims
Hospitals, pharmacies, and other health care providers are getting stuck in an insurance processing logjam…
STAT+: Clinical notes automation startup Abridge raises $150 million, takes aim at Microsoft Nuance
A Pittsburgh artificial intelligence startup emerging as a challenger to Microsoft’s clinical note taking business…
STAT+: DOJ investigating Community Health Systems’ hospitals
Community Health Systems is facing a new federal probe into its hospital billing practices more…
Colorado could cap payments for Amgen’s Enbrel
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Actually Wegovy is good for dialysis companies, dialysis provider says
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STAT+: Hospitals race to adopt generative AI, even as regulators struggle to keep up with the risks
Usually the words generative AI in health are followed by a bold claim. The technology…
Medicare Advantage’s 33 million club
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STAT+: Banning surprise medical bills is raising costs elsewhere
Without question, the new federal law banning surprise billing is achieving its goal of protecting…
STAT+: Sick patients collapsed waiting for care at Mass. hospital with known safety violations
Struggling to breathe, the patient stepped out of the registration line in the hospital’s overwhelmed…
STAT+: Hospital claims it was ‘drastically’ overcharged by pharma in a federal drug discount program
For several years, some of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies that participate in a U.S….
No one’s pleased with the government’s pitch for 2025 Medicare Advantage rates
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STAT+: States are ramping up scrutiny of health transactions, as more provider groups look for buyers
UnitedHealth Group’s Optum has bought an untold number of physician practices over the years. It…
STAT+: Lasers, cardiology, clinical trials: 2023’s top private equity targets
By some measures, private equity investment lagged in 2023, a year marked by growing distress…
STAT+: Key House Republican on health care plans exit from Congress
WASHINGTON — Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the chair of a crucial House committee that handles…
STAT+: Medicare threatens to pull funding from HCA’s embattled Mission Hospital
Five years after investor-owned HCA Healthcare took over an esteemed nonprofit hospital in North Carolina,…