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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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Hospitals Brittany Trang

Is there a nursing shortage in the United States? Depends on who you ask

Business Jessica Bartlett — Boston Globe

STAT Plus: Dana-Farber’s divorce from Brigham is the culmination of decades of change

Business Brittany Trang

Kaiser Permanente reaches tentative agreement with workers

Hospitals John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: Bernie Sanders bashes nonprofit hospitals over their tax breaks

Hospitals Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: Dana-Farber CEO on Mass General split: Boston needed a dedicated cancer hospital

Health Care Inc. Bob Herman

The stability of $0 premiums in Medicare Advantage

Hospitals Bob Herman

STAT Plus: More hospital and outpatient visits expected to persist through fall and winter

Insurance Brittany Trang

STAT Plus: New lawsuit highlights another wrinkle for settling disputes over surprise medical bills

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Politics John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: GOP senator probes drug discount programs at Cleveland Clinic, Bon Secours

Politics John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: Senate committee chair tries to spark negotiations to keep Medicare solvent

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Hospitals Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: CommonSpirit’s answer to losing money: get bigger

Politics Rachel Cohrs

STAT Plus: Bernie Sanders, Bill Cassidy clash over proposal to increase primary care doctors, nurses

Business Bob Herman and Tara Bannow

FTC sues private equity firm Welsh Carson, U.S. Anesthesia Partners for allegedly creating a monopoly

Hospitals Jessica Bartlett — Boston Globe

STAT Plus: What the Dana-Farber, Brigham divorce means for patients

Hospitals Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: Patients, doctors press FTC to beef up hospital merger scrutiny

Hospitals Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Medicare wants to increase payments for heart rehab. Hospitals see an opening to get more

Hospitals Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: Dana-Farber deal highlights a surprising trend: New cancer centers are in vogue

Politics John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: House subcommittee forays into fixing drug shortages

Politics Rachel Cohrs

STAT Plus: New Senate deal would ban some facility fees, reform hospital contracting

Politics John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: Civica Rx considers moving into chemo drugs as shortages worsen

Hospitals Brittany Trang

STAT Plus: Walmart may buy concierge Medicare Advantage provider ChenMed. But will it scale?

Hospitals Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: Experts fear private equity will pour gas on cardiology’s overuse problem

Hospitals Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Lawsuit raises antitrust and kickback allegations around cancer patient referrals

Hospitals Bob Herman

STAT Plus: As pharmaceutical companies bemoan Medicare’s drug negotiations, hospitals and doctors stay mum

Hospitals Deborah Balthazar

Female surgeons have lower rates of long-term adverse outcomes than their male peers, study finds

Special Report Bob Herman, J. Emory Parker, Adam Feuerstein, Lizzy Lawrence and Mohana Ravindranath

STAT Plus: Health care CEOs hauled in $4 billion last year as inflation pinched workers, analysis shows

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: After Optum Health’s lowest profit margin in a decade, UnitedHealth makes changes

Hospitals Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: Hospitals are dialing back on venture capital investing

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: AdventHealth sues MultiPlan, alleging a ‘cartel’ that underpays out-of-network medical claims