Hospitals

Exclusive Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: Senators push IRS to launch nonprofit hospital probe

Hospitals Tara Bannow and Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Medicare slashes safety net hospital payments on estimate that more people have insurance

Exclusive John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: White House drug shortage task force held rare in-person meeting with industry

Hospitals Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Private equity-owned physician groups plan lobbying push on mergers

Hospitals Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: HCA says smaller share of spending going to labor

Hospitals Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: UHS finance chief said company favors patients whose insurance pays more

Hospitals Alissa Ambrose and Hyacinth Empinado

Watch: In a children’s hospital gardens, families find sanctuary

Hospitals Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: Extensive review finds private equity owners jack up the cost of medical care

Politics John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: Hospitals struggle to make money on CAR-T cancer therapies, but their fortunes may change

Hospitals Tara Bannow and Bob Herman

STAT Plus: DOJ, FTC primed for more aggressive scrutiny of health care mergers

Hospitals Bob Herman

STAT Plus: States increasingly look to regulate hospital facility fees

Health Karen Pennar

From rapid cooling body bags to ‘prescriptions’ for AC, doctors prepare for a future of extreme heat

Health Tech Mohana Ravindranath

STAT Plus: More hospitals are billing patients as online messages surge

Business Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: HCA discloses massive data breach affecting 11 million patients

Hospitals Rachel Cohrs

STAT Plus: Medicare wants to send $9 billion to 340B hospitals — coupled with cuts

Hospitals Annalisa Merelli

STAT Plus: New Biden initiative targets controversial hospital ‘facility fees’ that often surprise patients

Hospitals Simar Bajaj

STAT Plus: UPenn and St. Luke’s have withdrawn from US News’ best hospitals list. Will others follow?

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: UnitedHealth wins $3.3 billion takeover of home health giant Amedisys

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: UnitedHealth starts bidding war with $3.3 billion offer for Amedisys

Hospitals Angus Chen

Cross-border ‘twinning programs’ may reduce survival disparities for childhood leukemia

Exclusive Rachel Cohrs

STAT Plus: With Fat Joe concerts and Super Bowl ads, a cadre of billionaires is mounting an unorthodox campaign against hospitals

Politics Rachel Cohrs

STAT Plus: House panel takes first steps toward reining in hospitals with ‘site-neutral’ changes

Hospitals Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Envision Healthcare files for bankruptcy

Hospitals Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Hospital-insurer tussle in Arizona puts care denials front and center

Health Care Inc. Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Gail Wilensky on the Geisinger deal, the earnings bonanza, and medical credit cards proliferate

Hospitals Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Geisinger board member: Local consolidation influenced Kaiser-Geisinger deal

Business Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Option Care takes over Amedisys in ‘perplexing’ $3.6 billion home care deal

Health Usha Lee McFarling

Wealth, not health: For this hospital, closing Chicago’s alarming ‘death gap’ didn’t mean more clinics

Hospitals Bob Herman

STAT Plus: New mega-deal highlights Geisinger’s fall, and raises concerns about where Kaiser is going next