Misdiagnoses cost the U.S. 800,000 deaths and serious disabilities every year, study finds
Diagnostic errors — that is, overlooking a disease, or diagnosing it erroneously or late —…
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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…
Cancer drug shortages deliver ‘gut punch’ to patients unsure if their survival odds will be undercut
Mairéad McInerney will never know if changes in her treatment plan have undercut her odds…
Opinion: Listen: Dance helped this nurse heal from trauma. Now she’s bringing it to others
“You can’t pour from an empty cup” is what registered nurse Tara Rynders learned the…
Opinion: AI can’t replicate this key part of practicing medicine
I’ve heard “WebMD said it could be cancer” countless times in my 15 years working…
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Opinion: No one — M.D. or otherwise — should use the honorific ‘doctor’ with patients
Florida legislators recently passed legislation to prevent advanced practice nurses in Florida with doctorates from…
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+: Home health providers sue Medicare over payment cuts, despite near record profits
The National Association of Home Care and Hospice sued the Biden administration to halt the…
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…
STAT+: Novo Nordisk bought prescribers over 450,000 meals and snacks to promote drugs like Ozempic
WASHINGTON – Novo Nordisk spent $11 million on meals and travel for thousands of doctors…
Opinion: The Supreme Court’s affirmative action decision puts lives at risk
The past several months have been grim for health in the U.S. In December, the…
Opinion: OB-GYNs could have solidified abortion as health care after Roe. They missed their chance
Reflecting on this first anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs to overturn Roe…
In absence of Roe v. Wade, an abortion doctor dwells on all the patients she does not see
Last year, just a few months after the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade…
STAT+: Congress explores changes to the way Medicare pays doctors
Congress is taking early steps towards changing the way Medicare pays physicians. At a hearing…
STAT+: Doctors’ lobby doubles down on the fight against expanding open access to research
Doctors’ lobbyists in Washington tend to focus their energies on ensuring Medicare pays well, and…
Opinion: What happens when patients beat their doctors to their test results
Not so long ago, a father broke down in tears with me over Zoom —…
Opinion: Listen: Physicians have a moral and professional obligation to get into ‘good trouble’
Just days after the end of Roe v. Wade, Caitlin Bernard, an OB-GYN in Indiana,…
AMA asks doctors to de-emphasize use of BMI in gauging health and obesity
CHICAGO – The American Medical Association on Tuesday strongly criticized the body-mass index, urging doctors…
Opinion: How the conversation about moral injury in health care is changing
In the new book “If I Betray These Words,” I tell the story, with Simon…
STAT+: Buoyed by cancer advances, new ASCO president also stresses honest prognosis
CHICAGO — As a busy weekend at the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting…
STAT+: UnitedHealth starts bidding war with $3.3 billion offer for Amedisys
There’s now a two-party showdown for one of the largest home health companies in the…
Opinion: PAs need a new name, but ‘physician associate’ won’t cut it. Here’s a better idea
I’m standing over an operating table, excising a skin cancer from the forehead of an…
Opinion: The agony of finding decent health care for my young-adult daughter with Down syndrome
Several years ago, a local artist asked if she could paint my younger daughter, then…
Opinion: Doctors think “advocate” is a dirty word. But it’s our ethical responsibility
Last Thursday, after 15 hours of deliberation, the Indiana State Licensing board ruled that our…
Opinion: More hospitals are offering child care. But they shouldn’t have to
Since the pandemic began, thousands of child care locations have closed, exacerbating an already acute…
Opinion: More young people should be getting their cholesterol tested and taking statins
For busy primary care physicians like me, an annual physical with a 27-year-old male is…
Opinion: How ‘screen and refer’ systems fail to help patients
We’ve all had the experience of a doctor or other health care worker staring at…
Opinion: Cancer patients shouldn’t be responsible for out-of-pocket costs
In 2023, just under 2 million Americans will be diagnosed with cancer. Many will endure…
Opinion: Checklists to screen for patients’ social needs aren’t helping
I once saw a patient who came to the emergency room with injuries that were…
Making sense of AI research in medicine, in one slide
BOSTON — Scientific journals have become something of a Mad Libs game for GPT: Artificial…
Opinion: How Tennessee is creating new opportunities for doctors trained outside the U.S.
This legislative session, Gov. Bill Lee made history by signing a bill that makes Tennessee…
Opinion: One simple fix for the primary care shortage: assistant physicians
A recent study by the Association of American Medical Colleges projects a shortage of between 17,800…
Opinion: Fix the rural physician shortage by expanding support for resident training
As the deans of the two public medical schools in Nevada, we are watching with…
STAT+: House panel takes first steps toward reining in hospitals with ‘site-neutral’ changes
WASHINGTON — A key House panel on Wednesday advanced several health care bills on Wednesday,…
Opinion: Do chatbots have more time to be empathetic than physicians?
As an oncologist, Jennifer Lycette gets to know her patients particularly well. She’s doubtful that…
Opinion: A breakthrough drug will require big changes for eye care doctors
Advancement in the science of eye care over the past 10 years has led to…
STAT+: Envision Healthcare files for bankruptcy
Physician staffing firm Envision Healthcare officially filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Monday, a move…
‘Stunning’ change to United’s colonoscopy coverage roils physicians and patients
When gastroenterologists learned in March that UnitedHealthcare plans to barricade many colonoscopies behind a controversial…
A physician’s Mother’s Day gift: reclaimed time with my children — and for myself
As a child, I fondly remember running through the kids’ aisle at Video World with…
Gail Wilensky on the Geisinger deal, the earnings bonanza, and medical credit cards proliferate
You’re reading the web version of Health Care Inc., STAT’s weekly newsletter following the flow…
Opinion: The amoxicillin shortage continues to force pediatricians and families to scramble
“So, you don’t have it in liquid form?” I asked. The answer, as usual, was…
Opinion: Why a chatbot might seem more empathetic than a human physician
An April 28 article in JAMA Internal Medicine, “Comparing Physician and Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Responses…
Opinion: Listen: Two medical residents debate their hospital’s unionization drive
In training to become a physician, medical residency can be a grueling period. Residents and…
Opinion: The Global North can’t solve its health care worker shortage by stealing from the Global South
The U.S. is facing unprecedented health care labor shortages and related cost pressures. In the U.K., the…
Opinion: Long waits to see a doctor are a public health crisis
In 2004, the physician search firm Merritt Hawkins first issued their Survey of Physician Appointment…
Opinion: I’m a medical resident. I want to pause the drive to unionize hospital trainees
Medicine is a calling. But far too often, trainees — residents and fellows — at…
Opinion: I’m a medical resident. Here’s why I think my hospital should unionize
As a third-year neurology resident at Mass General Brigham, I started my career at the…
STAT+: The high hopes — and high stakes — behind Microsoft and Epic’s plan to use AI to answer patient questions
Generative artificial intelligence tools have triggered a flood of speculation about the technology’s ability to…
Opinion: Generative AI’s three possibly insurmountable challenges for health care
Talk about AI in medicine often focuses on the most exiting possible innovations like precision…
STAT+: UnitedHealth says medical costs aren’t soaring. The reality is murkier
Executives at UnitedHealth Group hinted Friday that hospitalizations are not rising and that people are…