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News and analysis of issues in health care. This collection of most-read health care articles includes a look at legalizing discounts on medical services, expanding the use of midwives in maternity care, the effects of burnout on ER personnel and the case for universal coverage of oral health care.

Most Read

First Opinion Angie Comfort

The staggering financial burden of a proposed HIPAA rule

Health Care Bob Herman

Virtual Event: Can Tech Fix Primary Care?

Politics Rachel Cohrs

STAT Plus: The unexpected alliance lobbying for Medicare to pay for new obesity drugs

First Opinion Ann Ledbetter

Maternity care in the U.S. is in crisis. It’s time to call the midwife

First Opinion Daniel Fass and David Townsend

NRC: be straight about when clinicians need to report errors that lead to radiation exposure

Health Care Marion Renault

‘They were his best shot. And they failed to help’: Why did EMS workers neglect Tyre Nichols?

Special Report Karen Pennar

‘If I were a hospital, I’d be reading the tea leaves’: Pressures grow on the health care industry to reduce its climate pollution

First Opinion Daryl Pritchard and Susanne Munksted

Inconsistent clinical practices thwart wider use of personalized medicine

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Health Eric Boodman

‘This is a nonpartisan issue’: Planned Parenthood’s Alexis McGill Johnson on fighting for reproductive rights

Health Care Trisha Pasricha

STAT Plus: Many doctors spend their days battling insurers. Why do some go to work for ‘the dark side’?

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Health Tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Best Buy-Atrium deal offers glimpse of tech’s future in home health

First Opinion Zak Holdsworth

CVS’s acquisition of Oak Street doesn’t address health care’s woes

Health Helen Branswell

In large study, a single antibiotic dose slashed rate of sepsis in childbirth

Politics John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: Medicare may test policy of paying less for accelerated approval drugs

Insurance Bob Herman and Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: Medicare Advantage insurers to repay billions under final federal audit rule

First Opinion Robert M. Kaplan and Paul Tang

Upcoding: one reason Medicare Advantage companies pay clinicians to make home health checkups

Health Care Amanda Seitz — Associated Press

U.S. plans crackdown on nursing homes that sedate patients with unnecessary antipsychotics

Health Care Tom Murphy — Associated Press

Drugstores make slow headway on staffing problems

First Opinion Andrew Dreyfus

How value-based payments to clinicians can help close equity gaps

Politics Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: Amid dire maternal mortality rates, Congress falls short on Medicaid postpartum care

First Opinion Audrey Provenzano

Primary care physicians try to give their all — until they can’t. It’s time to flip the archetype to teamwork

First Opinion Greg Rudolf

Responsibly expanding access to methadone for people with opioid use disorder will save lives

Health Care Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: UPMC, Advocate Aurora, Duke fighting lawsuits over use of Meta’s tracking tool

Health Care Ambar Castillo

The case for universal oral health coverage, according to a new WHO report

Health Care Brittany Trang

Why doesn’t the U.S. have more Black doctors?

First Opinion Jay Baruch

Trying to quit my job as an ER doctor gave me reasons to stay

First Opinion Lee Jones

Exclude race from medical school admissions and students, patients, and the entire health care system lose out

First Opinion Sarah Smithson

How motivational interviewing can improve health workforce well-being

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Home health care is facing devastating ‘clawbacks’

First Opinion Neel Vahil

Keeping families out of ICUs no longer makes sense as the pandemic eases

First Opinion Jeff Goldsmith

The future for practicing physicians in a corporate world

First Opinion Terry Wilcox

Medicare’s cuts to home health are a step in the wrong direction

First Opinion Toni Gingerelli

Certified nursing assistants do important work. They deserve to be paid a living wage for it