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Latest hospital industry news: Here you’ll find analysis of private equity impacts and mergers, a crackdown on surprise facility fees, 340B hospitals and Medicare, and payment issues for CAR-T cancer therapies.

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First Opinion Laura and John Arnold

STAT Plus: Philanthropists Laura and John Arnold warn: Beware hospital consolidation

Health tech Mario Aguilar

STAT Plus: What Kaiser Permanente learned from using Apple Watch tech in Parkinson’s care

Health Tech Newsletter Mario Aguilar

STAT Plus: Hospital at Home: Medicare report shows how the experiment is going

Health Care Inc. Newsletter Bob Herman

STAT Plus: How much more are health care’s bosses making than their employees?

Exclusive Bob Herman, J. Emory Parker, Lizzy Lawrence, Tara Bannow, and Mohana Ravindranath

STAT Plus: Health care CEOs dialed back their pay in 2023. They still made $3.5 billion

Business Mark Arsenault — Boston Globe and Jessica Bartlett — Boston Globe

STAT Plus: Steward Health Care CEO Ralph de la Torre will resign

Health tech Brittany Trang

STAT Plus: Q&A: MedStar Health’s Raj Ratwani on health AI and the battle raging over regulation

Politics John Wilkerson and Rachel Cohrs Zhang

STAT Plus: Hassan indicates she’s open to tweaks on site-neutral payment reforms

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Hospitals Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: Two reports, two dramatically different views of nonprofit hospitals’ tax breaks

Health Care Inc. Bob Herman

STAT Plus: How insurers are covering Humira and copycat medicines

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Politics Rachel Cohrs Zhang

STAT Plus: Key Senate Republican throws cold water on Affordable Care Act repeal, site-neutral payment policy

Health tech Brittany Trang

STAT Plus: FDA commissioner: Health systems have to ‘step up’ on AI regulation or will ‘end up holding the bag’

Health tech Brittany Trang

STAT Plus: Q&A: For this South Dakota health system, leaning into telehealth means learning ‘webside’ manner

Politics Rachel Cohrs Zhang

STAT Plus: How hospitals could make money off of Kamala Harris’ medical debt relief plan

Health Care Inc. Bob Herman

STAT Plus: How powerful hospitals helped take R1 RCM private

Hospitals Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Ascension, other hospitals played active roles to take medical billing company R1 RCM private

Hospitals Larry Edelman

STAT Plus: Dana-Farber CEO Laurie Glimcher to step down, saying ‘we must look to the next generation’

Hospitals Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: UnitedHealthcare’s latest contract dispute, this time with Trinity Health, leaves thousands out-of-network

Health tech Brittany Trang

STAT Plus: Why U.S. health care cybersecurity laws are better at protecting a corpse’s privacy than patients’ lives

First Opinion Abraham Nussbaum

How the restaurant drama ‘The Bear’ mirrors working in a hospital

Hospitals Tara Bannow

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

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 tech Mohana Ravindranath

STAT Plus: Data privacy startup raises $30 million, to ease health care providers’ regulatory burden

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

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