Morning Rounds: For kids with high BMI, task force not ready to recommend weight loss drugs
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Boston’s mobile clinics offer model of health care that meets patients where they are
BOSTON — Chongcan Zhu, an 83-year-old longtime resident of Boston, lives alone — but she…
House passes site-neutral policy, transparency, PBM reform package
WASHINGTON — The House passed a relatively major health care package late Monday, an end-of-year…
Opinion: STAT+: Dana-Farber CEO Laurie Glimcher has always been a trailblazer and a risk taker
Dr. Laurie Glimcher learned early on from her father, a prominent physician-researcher, that success in…
STAT+: Medicare’s advisory committee isn’t sold on big pay raises for doctors
On Thursday, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission reviewed Medicare performance data and concluded that despite…
Morning Rounds: Couples share high blood pressure, and other health stories you should read today
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STAT+: Senate panel considers Medicare policy fixes to drug shortages
WASHINGTON — Members of the Senate Finance Committee took their first steps today toward using…
ChatGPT doesn’t know much about drugs, Hims & Hers enters weight-loss market
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STAT Morning Rounds: Six health news stories you need to start your day
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STAT+: Senate Republicans throw cold water on so-called site-neutral hospital pay cuts
WASHINGTON — On its face, a minor policy to make sure Medicare pays hospitals the…
Takeda, Janssen join wearable maker to measure scratching, and other health tech news
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STAT+: Critics say HCA’s cost-cutting is endangering Appalachian patients — a warning for the whole U.S. health care system
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — There was the beeping of monitors, the stiff sheets, the sterile smell…
STAT+: Mayo Clinic to spend $5 billion on tech-heavy redesign of its Minnesota campus
Mayo Clinic will spend $5 billion to reinvent its flagship medical campus in Rochester, Minn.,…
STAT+: Antitrust lawsuit alleges UnitedHealth’s Optum pressured a California hospital to stop competing over physicians
UnitedHealth Group’s Optum division is already the largest employer of physicians in the United States,…
STAT+: U.S. Anesthesia Partners, Welsh Carson face class action over monopoly allegations
Union health plans that represent electricians and plumbers in Texas have filed a class action…
Opinion: Physician and Rep. Raul Ruiz: The infectious disease doctor shortage threatens future pandemic preparedness
In 2009, I was practicing in the emergency department when the H1N1 pandemic emerged. Then,…
STAT+: How a major hospital shows just how inflated hospital list prices are
Hospitals’ list prices for surgeries, therapies, and other procedures always come with massive discounts. Financial…
STAT+: Hospitals put tech spending on a tight leash, raise the bar for pilots
Health systems whose budgets were squeezed dry during the pandemic are creeping back into the…
Opinion: We tried to quantify how harmful hospital ransomware attacks are for patients. Here’s what we found
This article is part of a partnership between First Opinion and Tradeoffs, a nonprofit news organization…
STAT+: Doctors divide over reforming a secretive panel that determines their Medicare pay
WASHINGTON — Doctors are splitting, specialty by specialty, over whether and how to overhaul a…
STAT+: Hospitals say violence against health workers is surging. Tech companies are stepping in to help
One day in early 2020, just weeks before Philadelphia entered lockdown, Thomas Jefferson University’s public…
Opinion: Hospital systems have to decide: Do they want to be Apple or Android?
Convenience is rapidly becoming a guiding principle for hospital system strategy and competition. As patients…
STAT+: ‘I never realized what people go through’: Doctor and former hospital CEO with Stage 4 cancer calls for greater empathy in medicine
PROVIDENCE – In late August, Dr. James E. Fanale was trudging through the Falmouth Road…
Is there a bigger move being planned at Cigna?
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Medicare eligibility is tripping up the GOP presidential candidates
You’re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and…
Ambulance rides for just $100? Government advisers want major billing fixes
A panel of government advisers finally has endorsed ideas for Congress to solve the particularly…
STAT+: Senate panel clears PBM reforms, safety-net hospital payments
WASHINGTON — A prominent Senate panel on Wednesday passed a new package of health policy…
STAT+: Medicare moves ahead with more price transparency requirements for hospitals
The federal government is moving forward with a spate of proposals that will force hospitals…
STAT+: For hospitals after No Surprises Act, physician subsidies are ‘the new contract labor’
Physician staffing firms, flailing in the wake of a federal law banning surprise bills, are…
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Senate committee plans Nov. 8 vote on wide-ranging health care package
WASHINGTON — The Senate Finance Committee plans to vote Nov. 8 on legislation that includes…
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Opinion: Excited delirium: a deadly term finally laid to rest
George Floyd. Angelo Quinto. Elijah McClain. All three men were killed by lethal force inflicted…
Emergency medicine is grappling with a surprising problem: The prospect of too many physicians
While much of the health care workforce is battling staff shortages, the emergency medicine field…
What will it take to end health care worker burnout?
Long hours and high-pressure situations have long characterized the health care profession — but in…
STAT+: The health care issue Democrats can’t solve: hospital reform
WASHINGTON — Democrats unilaterally drove major reforms to the health insurance and the pharmaceutical industries…
STAT+: Looking to retain billions, hospitals warn Medicare’s drug payment fix is ‘unlawful’
Hospitals are telling government officials it would be illegal to claw back $7.8 billion as…
Why is maternity leave for doctors such a complete mess?
I was sitting in my car around 4 p.m. on a Friday, waiting in the…
Opinion: Done right, AI can give patients crucial information on the quality of their care
Almost as soon as ChatGPT was released to the public, doctors began focusing on how…
STAT+: Actually, hospital price transparency does save money, advocate highlights
BOSTON — For all those who think hospital price transparency will not save money, Cynthia…
STAT+: Dana-Farber executive says split from Mass General will benefit patients
Laurie Glimcher trained at Massachusetts General Hospital. Her father was the chair of orthopedic surgery…
Opinion: STAT+: Preventive drugs may be the best solution to the antibiotic resistance crisis
The antibiotics crisis is a silent pandemic that threatens to knock modern society back into…
STAT+: Revenue cycle management company Waystar files for IPO
Revenue cycle management company Waystar filed for an initial public offering Monday with the Securities…
Is there a nursing shortage in the United States? Depends on who you ask
Hospitals are frustrated with a nationwide nursing shortage that’s only gotten worse since the pandemic….
STAT+: Dana-Farber’s divorce from Brigham is the culmination of decades of change
On the Southeast Expressway, at the edge of the city, two billboards advertising cancer care…
Kaiser Permanente reaches tentative agreement with workers
After a historic strike, healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente and the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions…
STAT+: Bernie Sanders bashes nonprofit hospitals over their tax breaks
WASHINGTON — Hospitals get tax breaks that are worth far more than the value of…
What’s next in the Kaiser Permanente strike
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STAT+: Dana-Farber CEO on Mass General split: Boston needed a dedicated cancer hospital
One of the first items on Laurie Glimcher’s agenda after becoming CEO of the renowned…
Cancer drug shortage eases slightly, but it’s still ‘living from paycheck to paycheck’
The shortage of cancer drugs is not going away, but it may be easing slightly,…
Opinion: How health care organizations can set up chief medical officers up for success
It should be obvious that medical school and clinical experience, in themselves, can’t fully prepare…
STAT+: Key Senate panel eyes action on drug shortages
WASHINGTON — One of the top health care committees in the Senate is assembling ideas…