Hospitals

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

Politics Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: FTC’s noncompete ban would force sweeping changes in health care, if it survives legal battle

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

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