Hospitals

Health Care Inc. Bob Herman

HCA’s charity care filings are on hyperdrive

Hospitals Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: HCA reports almost $1 billion more in charity care to Medicare than to its shareholders, drawing more taxpayer money

Hospitals Travis Andersen — Boston Globe

STAT Plus: Mass. senators assail Steward Health Care during hearing on firm’s struggling hospitals

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Biden administration sticks with slight cuts to 2025 Medicare Advantage payments

Health Annalisa Merelli

New HHS guidance requires consent for pelvic, breast, and other sensitive examinations

Hospitals Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: UnitedHealth’s surprising new target: Struggling Steward’s physician group

Hospitals Brittany Trang

STAT Plus: Some nonprofit hospitals spend less on charity care than they receive in tax breaks, new analysis shows

Hospitals Adam Piore — Boston Globe

STAT Plus: How a for-profit health system’s push to expand ended in disappointment for a tiny island nation

Health Elizabeth Cooney

STAT Plus: Hospitals turn to sports performance centers to offer athletes elite care — for the right price

Business Brittany Trang and Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: UnitedHealth appears to be upping loan offers to providers, after Change cyberattack

Health tech Casey Ross

STAT Plus: Q&A: Amid AI frenzy in medicine, a federal regulator’s quest to create safeguards

Health tech Mohana Ravindranath

STAT Plus: AI health care companies say they’ll keep humans in the loop. But what does that actually mean?

Hospitals Katie Palmer and Casey Ross

STAT Plus: Hospitals struggle to validate AI-generated clinical summaries. ‘It’s a bit chaotic’

Hospitals Jon Chesto — Boston Globe

STAT Plus: For-profit health system’s Mass. hospitals teetering on the brink of financial disaster

Business Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: UnitedHealth gives timeline for Change restoration: payments up by late next week

Health tech Mohana Ravindranath

STAT Plus: Oracle Health chair says Cerner isn’t competing with Epic

Hospitals Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: RaDonda Vaught, nurse who accidentally killed patient, to speak at CommonSpirit event on patient safety

Exclusive Brittany Trang

STAT Plus: Change Healthcare cyberattack outage could persist for weeks, UnitedHealth Group executive suggests

Insurance Brittany Trang, Tara Bannow, and Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Experts say scale of Change cyberattack shows risk of centralized claims processing

Hospitals Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Private equity firm offers $5.8 billion buyout of hospital billing company R1 RCM

Health tech Bob Herman, Brittany Trang, and Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: UnitedHealth cyberattack impedes pharmacies’ and hospitals’ ability to process insurance claims

Health tech Mohana Ravindranath

STAT Plus: Clinical notes automation startup Abridge raises $150 million, takes aim at Microsoft Nuance

Hospitals Bob Herman

STAT Plus: DOJ investigating Community Health Systems’ hospitals

Health tech Katie Palmer and Casey Ross

STAT Plus: Hospitals race to adopt generative AI, even as regulators struggle to keep up with the risks

Business Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: Banning surprise medical bills is raising costs elsewhere

Hospitals Liz Kowalczyk and Felice J. Freyer — Boston Globe

STAT Plus: Sick patients collapsed waiting for care at Mass. hospital with known safety violations

Health Care Inc. Bob Herman

No one’s pleased with the government’s pitch for 2025 Medicare Advantage rates

Hospitals Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: Medicare threatens to pull funding from HCA’s embattled Mission Hospital

Insurance Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: Cano Health’s downfall offers a warning for Medicare Advantage