hospitals

Health Elizabeth Cooney

More heart patients getting prompt post-hospital care, but disparities increase

Hospitals Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: UnitedHealth and HCA clash over hospital chain’s rates in ‘battle of the giants’

In the Lab Brittany Trang

What we do and don’t know about the shortage of blood culture bottles

Business Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Private equity firms to acquire health care billing and payments firm R1 in $8.9 billion deal

Health Care Inc. Bob Herman

STAT Plus: For-profit hospitals are getting a boost from a flood of patients

Politics Aaron Pressman — Boston Globe

STAT Plus: Powerful Senate committee demands testimony from CEO of bankrupt Steward hospital chain

Health Care Helena Getahun-Hawkins — Boston Globe

STAT Plus: Do medical errors creep up at hospitals when interns arrive? Yes, but the ‘July effect’ is minimal.

Video Hyacinth Empinado

How insurers use doctors to profit off medical codes

Health Helen Branswell

Hospitals, labs, and health departments try to cope with blood culture bottle shortage

Health tech Katie Palmer, Brittany Trang, and Casey Ross

STAT Plus: Microsoft global outage forces health systems to cancel appointments, delay procedures

First Opinion Julio La Torre

Real-time vital signs data: a hidden source of value in medical AI

Health Care Inc. Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Medicare pay proposals are good news for health tech, bad news for docs

Politics Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Biden administration ignores calls to bolster hospital price transparency

Hospitals Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: Sanford Health aims to shake off a run of failed deals by snapping up a $3 billion Wisconsin health system

D.C. Diagnosis Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: The pharmaceutical industry keeps losing Washington friends

Health Care Inc. Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Pulling back the curtain on psychiatric hospital joint ventures

A STAT Investigation Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: Troubled for-profit chains are stealthily operating dozens of psychiatric hospitals under nonprofits’ names

Hospitals Robert Weisman — Boston Globe

STAT Plus: Former Mass General president Peter Slavin will run Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles

Hospitals Hanna Krueger — Boston Globe

Steward Health Care spent millions on surveillance of its critics — even amid financial crisis

Hospitals Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: Ascension is racing to unload hospitals as execs work to stem losses

Hospitals Robert Weisman — Boston Globe

STAT Plus: Optum walks away from its agreement to buy Steward’s doctors network

Health Isabella Cueto

STAT Plus: Standalone organ donor centers have sprouted all over the U.S. Do they work better than hospitals?

Hospitals Mohana Ravindranath

STAT Plus: HHS finalizes penalties for providers resorting to ‘information blocking’

Hospitals Hanna Krueger — Boston Globe

STAT Plus: Steward Health Care executives are mired in trouble at home. In Malta, it’s much worse

Hospitals Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: The CEO of Kaiser’s new health network shares why he’s making a bet on a tiny North Carolina hospital system

Health Isabella Cueto and Angus Chen

STAT Plus: Jury orders Stanford to pay millions to employee in racial harassment case

Business Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: Kaiser adds a small North Carolina health system to its Risant Health network

Health tech Mohana Ravindranath

STAT Plus: Federal judge rules in favor of hospital lobby in privacy lawsuit

Business Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Novant Health calls off North Carolina hospital deal, giving a win to the FTC