Hospitals

Hospitals Tara Bannow

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

Health Isabella Cueto

STAT Plus: Medicare’s big experiment to fix kidney failure care hasn’t worked so far, studies say

Hospitals Robert Weisman — Boston Globe

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

Health Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: Supreme Court kicks Idaho emergency abortion ban back to lower court

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

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Q&A: How Kaiser Permanente tracks and weeds out risky medical devices

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

Business Tara Bannow

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

First Opinion Sofia Hamilton and Thomas Kimbrell

Certificate of need laws con rural patients out of health care

Health Tara Bannow

Four Tops singer’s lawsuit says he visited ER for chest pain, ended up in straitjacket

Hospitals Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: FTC loses its bid to block Novant’s hospital merger in North Carolina

Hospitals Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: Physicians take Medicare Advantage to task for rural patients’ care gaps

Hospitals Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Which hospital systems will join Kaiser’s Risant next?

Hospitals Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: Why health systems are faring better so far in 2024

Robert Weisman and Jessica Bartlett — Boston Globe

STAT Plus: Steward files for bankruptcy, leaving its eight Massachusetts hospitals in limbo

Health tech Casey Ross

STAT Plus: AI is becoming the exclusive province of academic medicine. A new initiative aims to change that

Hospitals Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Another hospital sues MultiPlan, alleging scheme to ‘suppress’ payments

Health tech Casey Ross

STAT Plus: Generative AI is supposed to save doctors from burnout. New data show it needs more training

Hospitals Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: FTC’s noncompete ban immediately challenged in Texas district lawsuit

Health tech Brittany Trang

STAT Plus: HCA to expand the use of AI tool to automate clinical documentation in ER

Hospitals Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Anticompetitive hospital mergers skate by due to FTC’s shallow resources

Hospitals Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: The evidence grows: Prices spike after mergers between far-flung hospitals

Hospitals Liz Kowalczyk — Boston Globe

STAT Plus: ‘Devalued, disempowered, and unseen’: Mass General Brigham doctors react to latest merger step

Health Care Inc. Bob Herman

UnitedHealth ghosts Congress on Change cyberattack — for now

Hospitals Olivia Goldhill

Hospitals largely keep quiet on maternal care since Dobbs, STAT survey finds

Health tech Mohana Ravindranath

STAT Plus: Hospital price transparency rules are seeding a new crop of health tech startups

Insurance Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: UnitedHealth reaffirms financial outlook despite up to $1.6 billion hit from Change Healthcare cyberattack

Hospitals Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Mass General Brigham is ready to move on without Dana-Farber, CEO says