CDC and social media: The new misinformation war
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STAT+: Cano Health’s downfall offers a warning for Medicare Advantage
Private Medicare just isn’t the gold mine it once was. Case in point: Cano Health,…
Let the Medicare Advantage lobbying begin
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STAT+: New Medicare Advantage rule is boon for providers, drag on insurers
Starting this year, private Medicare plans have to cover their members’ hospitalizations at the higher…
Chicago children’s hospital network down as experts warn of rising cyber threats
Chicago pediatric hospital Lurie Children’s has been forced to take its network offline in the…
STAT+: AI therapy and ICU training: A first look at health apps for Apple Vision Pro
Apple Vision Pro, the company’s most important new product in a decade, promises to envelop…
STAT+: General Catalyst wants to take over a safety-net health system in Akron. The city has questions
General Catalysts’s grand vision for a venture capital-owned hospital system seamlessly blending AI and tech…
Opinion: The emergency room is where the United States’ social problems come home to roost
From “Legacy” by Uché Blackstock, M.D., published by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group,…
STAT+: Sophisticated phishing and deepfakes: How generative AI brings new threats for hospitals
The ubiquity of AI tools like ChatGPT could be a boon to hospitals eager for…
STAT+: FTC sues to block a proposed hospital deal in North Carolina
The federal government is suing to block a proposed hospital deal in North Carolina, alleging…
Bernie Sanders’ showdown with pharma CEOs is coming to a head
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STAT+: A for-profit health system’s financial issues could plunge overburdened hospitals into crisis
Steward Health Care, a for-profit health system that serves thousands of patients in Eastern Massachusetts,…
Dana-Farber expands studies to be retracted to 6, plus 31 to be corrected over mishandled data
A review of alleged data manipulation in studies involving four top scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer…
Medicare Advantage update pushes Wall Street to reset expectations
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STAT+: Physician buy-in will make or break VC firm General Catalyst’s bold hospital deal
It makes sense in theory for hospitals and startups to strike deals. Not only would…
STAT+: Dana-Farber cancer researchers moving to retract one paper, correct others in broad investigation of manipulated data
Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, one of the nation’s leading cancer research and treatment centers,…
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STAT+: Hospitals offer their custom-built tech for sale in search of new revenue streams
Hospitals aren’t usually in the business of selling technology tools. But that’s changing thanks to…
STAT+: Microsoft to embed AI tool for clinical documentation in Epic’s health records software
Microsoft on Thursday said it will launch its artificial intelligence tool for automating clinical documentation…
STAT+: Humana slashes profit predictions amid soaring Medicare Advantage costs
Humana’s Medicare Advantage enrollees got care in the hospital and physician clinics way more often…
STAT+: Pipelines from high school to health care jobs to be created by new Bloomberg Philanthropies initiative
The Edward M. Kennedy Academy for Health Careers will be revamped to create a guaranteed…
STAT+: Biden changes will force health insurers to speed up and get more specific if they want to deny care
The Biden administration moved Wednesday to force insurance companies to give specific reasons for denying…
Opinion: The decline and fall of elite multispecialty medical groups
The failure of Geisinger Health System, which lost $842 million in 2022 and disappeared into…
The state of Medicare Advantage, in one chart
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STAT+: Could private equity be the future of private practice? A new lobbying group thinks so
Private equity gets a bad rap in health care. But some doctors see that kind…
STAT+: Nonprofit health systems plug their strong cash reserves at JPM — a very different pitch than they make elsewhere
SAN FRANCISCO — Hospital leaders spent a good chunk of their stage time at the…
Opinion: The nursing staffing crisis has hit one role particularly hard: the nurse manager
Though the Covid-19 pandemic brought heightened attention to nurses overall, a unique nursing role has…
JPM Day 3 had a cautiously optimistic outlook
In honor of JPM Week, you’re reading a special edition of our biotech newsletter, The…
STAT+: Heated lawsuit between AdventHealth, MultiPlan attracts hospital lobbyists
A lawsuit between a large hospital system and a dominant vendor that works for health…
Opinion: Preventing health care violence in the ER requires moving from safety to security
A slight man falls off his barstool. Now he’s an ER patient, slurring insults and…
Anthony Fauci talked Covid in Congress in a nine-hour, closed-door grilling — and that was just day one
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STAT+: Hospitals try a new pitch to investors: other ways of making money
SAN FRANCISCO — If you learned anything about nonprofit hospitals on the first day of…
UnitedHealth’s next physician acquisition & the January health insurance churn
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STAT+: What to expect from hospitals and health insurers at this year’s JPM Healthcare Conference
Nonprofit hospitals often get overshadowed at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, the health care industry’s…
STAT+: AI tools and a desire to do more with less is expected to drive health systems’ 2024 tech spend
Hospitals and clinics are expecting a slightly better 2024 compared to last year thanks to…
UnitedHealth’s rehab restrictions, Texas medical school drama, and health care’s biggest profits
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An ugly fight over care for the poor in Texas
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STAT+: Here’s who’s profiting the most in health care
For all the flack they get, the country’s four biggest pharmacy benefit managers reported a…
STAT+: 3 health policies states are taking on in 2024
For most states, the new year means a new legislative session. STAT’s taking a look…
STAT stories you might have missed in 2023
There’s an old story in journalism, and it goes like this: A reporter is asked,…
STAT+: Complications spiked 25% in hospitals bought by private equity
There’s ample evidence that private equity buyouts in health care drive up costs. A new…
Morning Rounds: Our newsroom’s favorite stories of 2023
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STAT+: AAFP’s CEO on how to keep primary care doctors in the field
In ten years, the United States could be short as many as 48,000 primary care…
Morning Rounds: Have regulations on digital trackers in health care gone too far?
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The biotech updates you need to read today
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What the new health counsels at FTC, DOJ, and HHS might do
Three major government agencies are adding new officials to investigate price-gouging in health care —…
STAT+: Health care industry fights back against crackdowns on health data tracking
Wherever you go on the internet, trackers follow. These ubiquitous bits of code, invisibly embedded…
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STAT+: The biggest health care deals of 2023
Every year, the health care industry behaves more and more like a balloon: Squeeze one…
Morning Rounds: Americans’ health is trending downward, poll finds
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North Carolina attorney general sues HCA for lapses at Mission Health
North Carolina’s attorney general alleges in a new lawsuit that HCA Healthcare is violating the…
Health records don’t always show when patients are dead. One researcher is trying to change that
Health professor Neil Wenger was deep into a years-long study on seriously ill primary care…