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Opinion: Exclude race from medical school admissions and students, patients, and the entire health care system lose out
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Monday in two cases that could eliminate…
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‘If I were a hospital, I’d be reading the tea leaves’: Pressures grow on the health care industry to reduce its climate pollution
Flooding, heat waves, wildfires, and other climate-driven weather extremes in recent years have catapulted hospitals…
Opinion: Medical professionals: Make your plan to vote now. Then vote!
The U.S. is less than three weeks from the 2022 midterm elections, which will decide…
Opinion: The future for practicing physicians in a corporate world
Forty years ago, in his Pulitzer Prize-winning history “The Social Transformation of American Medicine,” sociologist…
In Fiona-ravaged Puerto Rico, hospitals were prioritized over health clinics for diesel, exacerbating rural health disparities
When Hurricane Fiona knocked out power across the entire island of Puerto Rico, hospitals turned…
When is a doctor not a doctor? Often, when patients address women physicians
In her inbox on the Mayo Clinic patient portal, the dermatologist Jamison Harvey receives some…
STAT+: Errors have plagued insurance directories of doctors. The government wants to clean them up with its own
The federal government wants to create a national directory that houses accurate, up-to-date information for…
Get a Ph.D. in health policy — from a single Powerpoint slide
Looking for an actually concise explanation of a half-century’s worth of research and arguments about…
Opinion: Doctors who knowingly spread Covid-19 lies should be held accountable
The California State Legislature has sent a bill to Gov. Gavin Newsom that strengthens discipline…
Medicare Advantage boosterism, providers’ surprise billing savior in Texas, and a health insurance firewall
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Opinion: Gender-affirming care should be embraced, not met with vitriol and bomb threats
As a pediatrician and a parent of a transgender son, I have become increasingly alarmed…
Opinion: Surgery needs a new pay model, free from incentives to do more procedures
How will my surgeon get paid? That’s a question few people ask as they think…
‘How do we support each other?’: A physician and ethicist on the difficult decisions doctors now face in abortion care
As new abortion bans are enacted around the country, physicians working with pregnant patients are…
These 3 startups are trying to improve diversity in clinical trials, a challenge experts say will take more than just tech
A host of health tech startups and companies are advertising their apps and platforms as…
Opinion: Listen: A pediatric doctor on the life-or-death decisions some prospective parents must make
Christopher Hartnick never expected his work as a doctor to intersect with political discussions about…
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Raising a RUC-kus, Blues’ antitrust deal appealed, & a UAE deal
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Opinion: Why do people turn down social risk assistance offered by their doctors’ offices?
After decades of research documenting the profound effects of social factors on health, such as…
STAT+: Experts urge Medicare to overhaul secretive panel that helps determine doctors’ pay
A heavyweight group of former Medicare officials and payment experts are calling on the federal…
Opinion: Health care’s shift from covenant to commodity comes with consequences
Norman Rockwell’s 1939 painting “When the Doctor Treats Your Child” depicts a family doctor with…
As masks are shed, a routine visit to a medical office can pose Covid risks for some patients
In May, Sarah Fama had to get blood work done before refilling a prescription for…
STAT+: Doctors, seniors groups flag concerns with Medicare Advantage
Doctors, patients, and seniors groups are airing new grievances about Medicare Advantage, arguing the growing…
Opinion: People with terminal cancer need to know they are dying. Doctors shouldn’t withhold that information
I have worn many hats professionally. The most uncomfortable one is “doctor friend.” At best,…
Opinion: The No Surprises Act: A Band-Aid protecting business as usual
The No Surprises Act has been hailed as a major bipartisan reform aiming to eliminate…
Surprise billing legal limbo & device price persuasion
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STAT+: Fed up with costly, onerous recertification, doctors are turning to an alternative board
While taking the exam to renew his physician specialty certification, pulmonologist Jordan Metcalf got hung…
‘So much more to do’: A hospital system’s campaign to confront racism — and resistance to change — makes early strides
BOSTON — When a routine cancer screening came back showing an elevated PSA reading, George…
Opinion: Medical error: An epidemic compounded by a culture of silence
Covid-19 turned hospitals into battlefields. Wards burst at the seams, caregivers died in the thousands,…
Private equity’s latest fixation & the ACA subsidy spigot
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Parents and clinicians say private equity’s profit fixation is short-changing kids with autism
ATLANTA — When a new person comes into his living room, a giggly “E” smiles…
Democrats’ TGIF moment, pathologists defend their turf, & Biogen’s back at the FDA’s doorstep
You’re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and…
A lobbying frenzy over surprise billing, employer dialysis questions, and a big broker throwdown
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Wall Street’s love affair with insurers, hospitals pressure Medicare, and swimming in a risk pool
You’re reading the web edition of Health Care Inc., STAT’s weekly newsletter following the flow…
Opinion: Value-based payment has produced little value. It needs a time-out
The value-based payment crusade is now two decades old. But despite the tens of billions…
Opinion: Clinician-administrator relationships are ‘on life support.’ Here’s how to heal them
Much has been written about the decades-long erosion of the once-solid relationship between patients and…
Encouraged by right-wing doctor groups, desperate patients turn to ivermectin for long Covid
Almost two years have passed since Dean Fritzemeier fell ill with Covid in October 2020….
Patients’ new credit card crunch, Amazon’s getting serious, and inflation has entered the chat
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There aren’t nearly enough Native American physicians. A crash course in medicine seeks to change that
BOSTON — She’d just used a defibrillator to resuscitate a man whose heart had stopped,…
STAT+: Biogen agrees to pay $900 million to settle whistleblower case alleging kickbacks and sham speaking events
After a decade of legal squabbling, Biogen has agreed in principle to pay $900 million…
STAT+: Medicare offers financial perks for rural hospitals that convert to its new provider type. Will they bite?
The federal government is hashing out the details on a new type of rural hospital,…
A CEO pay bonanza, how much the rank and file are paid, and a wilderness therapy rabbit hole
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STAT+: HCA Healthcare, Cigna chiefs top the lists of best-paid CEOs among providers, insurers
Health insurers and providers often argue over payments at the negotiating table, but in the…
Biotech employees cash in health care’s largest salaries, while people working at providers sit near the bottom
It pays to be in the lab. It pays way less to be at the…
Opinion: Empower primary care with adequate payments and technology
Nina, the mother of an autistic teenager, had never experienced a panic attack until Covid-19…
STAT+: One health system’s six-year odyssey to meet its patients’ needs outside the clinic
Manisha Parulekar knew her aging patients needed extra support outside the walls of her clinic….
In the label ‘adult failure to thrive,’ medicine reveals its own failures
The death certificate made everything worse. Seth Fischer was already angry: a physical feeling, an…
Opinion: Dobbs decision will rob many medical students of essential abortion training
As medical students — the next generation of physicians — we believe that the Supreme…
‘A scary time’: Fear of prosecution forces doctors to choose between protecting themselves or their patients
Last Wednesday, a patient walked into Julie Rhee’s fertility clinic in St. Louis with pelvic…
Opinion: Mainstream medicine must embrace palliative care services
Even before the onset of Covid-19, there were legions of people with serious illnesses in…
In a doctor’s suspicion after a miscarriage, a glimpse of expanding medical mistrust
The idea that she might be pregnant hadn’t crossed Janneke Parrish’s mind. She used contraceptives…
Placebo response reveals unconscious bias among white patients toward female, Black physicians
The doctor-patient relationship is an important part of helping and healing. But it can be…