Senators push IRS to launch nonprofit hospital probe
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of senators wants federal tax regulators to probe nonprofit hospitals’…
Category: hospitals
Opinion: What ‘The Bear’ can teach us about hospitality in medicine
The FX/Hulu show “The Bear” transports viewers inside the tense world of restaurants. In Season…
Opinion: Health care has an ‘LMNO’ problem
On inpatient medical services, it’s common to hear patients’ laboratory results presented with statements sounding…
From windows to wall art, hospitals use virtual reality to design more inclusive rooms for kids
BERKELEY, Calif. — For many young patients, harsh lights, bare walls, and windows facing parking…
Community health workers, experts in the in-between, fight for their place in the system
NEW YORK — A nurse supervisor at Montefiore Comprehensive Health Care Center in the Bronx…
STAT+: Medicare slashes safety net hospital payments on estimate that more people have insurance
The federal government will pay hospitals that treat poor and uninsured patients almost $1 billion…
STAT+: White House drug shortage task force held rare in-person meeting with industry
WASHINGTON — A new White House task force on drug shortages held a rare in-person…
STAT+: Labor Department says UnitedHealth Group unit illegally denied emergency room, drug screen claims
The U.S. Department of Labor claims in a new lawsuit that a UnitedHealth Group unit…
STAT+: Private equity-owned physician groups plan lobbying push on mergers
Three large and growing physician groups backed by the private equity giant Welsh, Carson, Anderson…
Amazon expands telehealth clinic nationwide
You’re reading the web edition of STAT Health Tech, our guide to how tech is…
STAT+: Microsoft strikes partnership with Duke Health to advance AI in medicine
On Tuesday, Duke Health and Microsoft announced a five-year partnership that will support artificial intelligence…
STAT+: How Y Combinator’s only health care partner decides which startups are worth a shot
This story is the first in a series of profiles of influential figures and decision-makers…
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Opinion: The airline industry needs some disaster management lessons. Health care can help
The airline industry is often held up as a model of operational excellence — one…
STAT+: Midwest health systems Fairview and Sanford call off $14 billion merger
Sanford Health and Fairview Health Services have for the second time scrapped their planned merger,…
STAT+: HCA says smaller share of spending going to labor
The chief executive of the country’s biggest hospital chain said Thursday that labor costs are…
STAT+: UHS finance chief said company favors patients whose insurance pays more
The country’s largest private psychiatric hospital operator cherry picks patients whose insurance will pay more,…
STAT+: Democrats decry a new health package as too easy on private equity
WASHINGTON — A rift between Democrats and Republicans over health care transparency was on full display…
A health system tests virtual reality to help train nurses
You’re reading the web edition of STAT Health Tech, our guide to how tech is…
STAT+: IQVIA built a health data empire to target drug ads. Now it’s the focus of an FTC lawsuit
The health data giant IQVIA became a dominant force by gobbling up its rivals. Over…
STAT+: Key House panel proposes lowering out-of-pocket drug costs in Medicare
WASHINGTON — A key House committee announced their own plans to increase health care transparency…
Inside the hospital gardens that give respite from a world of ills
WILLOWBROOK, Calif. — In this neighborhood just north of Compton, Martin Luther King Jr. Community…
Watch: In a children’s hospital gardens, families find sanctuary
Boston Children’s Hospital is located in the heart of the city’s bustling Longwood medical area….
STAT+: Extensive review finds private equity owners jack up the cost of medical care
Private equity firms are rapidly buying their way into the U.S. health care system, and…
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Preparation over panic: How a Boston hospital is priming medical residents for an era of AI medicine
BOSTON — On a Friday morning in July, an internal medicine resident at Beth Israel…
Mass. General totes up its waste in a move to tackle climate change
On an August Thursday in 2021, deep into the pandemic, two Massachusetts General Hospital doctors…
STAT+: Hospitals struggle to make money on CAR-T cancer therapies, but their fortunes may change
WASHINGTON — Hospitals for years have complained that Medicare pays so little for CAR-T cancer…
STAT+: DOJ, FTC primed for more aggressive scrutiny of health care mergers
Health care companies trying to merge can expect tougher policing from the top federal antitrust…
STAT+: States increasingly look to regulate hospital facility fees
Unexpected “facility fees” charged by hospitals have become a growing source of rage for patients,…
STAT+: ‘Doctors need to get on top of this’: GPT-4 displays bias in medical tasks
Diagnosis is an especially tantalizing application for generative AI: Even when given tough cases that…
From rapid cooling body bags to ‘prescriptions’ for AC, doctors prepare for a future of extreme heat
In Phoenix, where daytime temperatures are topping 110 degrees Fahrenheit for the third straight week,…
Nearly 8,000 blood tests recalled over risk of missed heart attack diagnosis
QuidelOrtho has recalled nearly 8,000 potentially faulty blood tests meant to help doctors quickly determine…
STAT+: Electronic health record maker NextGen Healthcare to pay $31 million to resolve fraud claims
The health records company NextGen Healthcare will pay $31 million to resolve allegations that it…
STAT+: Why hospitals are cutting ties with Moody’s rating agency
Not-for-profit hospitals have been cutting ties with Moody’s Investors Service in recent years, citing the…
STAT+: Medicare eyes cuts to doctors, raises to outpatient clinics in 2024
Physicians are in line to absorb more Medicare cuts next year, while hospital outpatient departments…
STAT+: More hospitals are billing patients as online messages surge
Health systems drowning in messages from patients are grasping for new ways to manage the…
HCA discloses massive data breach affecting 11 million patients
HCA Healthcare revealed Monday that it’s experienced what is likely the largest data breach ever…
STAT+: Medicare wants to send $9 billion to 340B hospitals — coupled with cuts
WASHINGTON — Medicare is planning to send $9 billion in lump sum payments to more…
New Biden initiative targets controversial hospital ‘facility fees’ that often surprise patients
As part of the Biden administration’s broader efforts to lower health care costs, the White…
Biden launches a new push to limit health care costs hoping to show he can save money for families
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Biden on Friday rolled out a new set of initiatives to…
Opinion: California should become the first state to offer a special minimum wage to health care workers
Lawmakers in California may finally offer a raise to the state’s woefully underpaid health care…
STAT+: Palantir’s small but growing health-software business leans on meeting customers’ demands
PALO ALTO, Calif. — At a bustling artificial intelligence conference in June hosted by data…
Most ambulances ‘run hot’ with lights and sirens blaring. But that’s starting to change
Jonathan Studnek knows some people imagine that driving an ambulance at high speed with lights…
STAT+: UPenn and St. Luke’s have withdrawn from US News’ best hospitals list. Will others follow?
Mercy Philadelphia Hospital was planning on shutting down. Losing Mercy, a safety-net hospital serving a…
Opinion: The love my daughter and I found in the PICU
The ventilator alarm woke me at 3 a.m. It was the fourth alarm in the…
A replacement for race: Medical experts explore how to eliminate bias in clinical algorithms
WASHINGTON — Most of the medical community has acknowledged that racism is baked into many…
STAT+: ‘It’s like Groundhog Day’: The cancer drug shortage isn’t new — and neither are the solutions
A young girl, maybe 5 or 6 years old, had come into Yoram Unguru’s clinic…
STAT+: UnitedHealth wins $3.3 billion takeover of home health giant Amedisys
Home health and hospice chain Amedisys has chosen a new corporate owner. Amedisys and UnitedHealth…
STAT+: Drug middlemen catch flak at another congressional hearing
Drug middlemen once again were on the hot seat at a congressional hearing on Wednesday….
Amid the AI gold rush, a new company forms to vet models and root out weaknesses
The market for artificial intelligence in health care is about as transparent as a brick…
Getting rid of bias in clinical calculators isn’t as simple as taking race out of the equation
Racial bias is everywhere in medicine, including the calculators doctors commonly use to predict a…