Hospitals

Hospitals Tara Bannow

Medicare offers financial perks for rural hospitals that convert to its new provider type. Will they bite?

Business Bob Herman

HCA Healthcare, Cigna chiefs top the lists of best-paid CEOs among providers, insurers

Business Bob Herman

Biotech employees cash in health care’s largest salaries, while people working at providers sit near the bottom

Special Report Bob Herman, Kate Sheridan, J. Emory Parker, Adam Feuerstein and Mohana Ravindranath

Health care’s high rollers: As the pandemic raged, CEOs’ earnings surged

Health Olivia Goldhill

‘A scary time’: Fear of prosecution forces doctors to choose between protecting themselves or their patients

First Opinion Cliff A. Megerian and Peter Pronovost

Now is not the time for Congress to further cut hospitals’ Medicare payments

Hospitals Bob Herman

HCA, Steward abandon hospital deal in another win for FTC

First Opinion Christi A. Grimm, Ruth Ann Dorrill and Julie K. Taitsman

New report: gains in patient safety have stalled over the past decade

Hospitals Rachel Cohrs

Supreme Court sides with hospitals on Medicare drug pay dispute

Hospitals Bob Herman

New Jersey hospitals scrap merger after FTC challenge

Hospitals Tara Bannow

The FTC says it’s getting tougher on hospital consolidation. Antitrust experts aren’t buying it

Hospitals Tara Bannow

Study suggests a new harm from hospital mergers: less price transparency

Hospitals Tara Bannow

Justice Department says sweeping lab test fraud in Texas involved dozens of doctors and front companies

Hospitals Bob Herman

Doctors in Arizona are trying to rewrite the surprise billing law to boost their own pay

Politics Rachel Cohrs

There may be a backdoor way for hospitals to get paid for uninsured Covid-19 care

Hospitals Tara Bannow and Bob Herman

Proton cancer centers continue to proliferate, despite shaky benefits and checkered financiers

Hospitals Bob Herman

Employers sue Advocate Aurora Health over alleged anticompetitive hospital contracts

First Opinion Michael L. Millenson and J. Matthew Austin

To improve safety, hospitals should make ‘radical transparency’ real — and accessible

Hospitals Tara Bannow

Life or death decisions and no feedback: New study highlights the value of patient tracking, especially in the ER

First Opinion Ge Bai and Brian Blase

Turn off the spigot for hospitals’ Covid-19 relief funding

Business Bob Herman

Real estate firms own nearly 1 in 10 health care properties

Hospitals Tara Bannow

Advocate Aurora-Atrium’s mammoth merger: Experts split on whether federal regulators will challenge the deal

Business Tara Bannow and Bob Herman

Omicron squeezed hospitals more than health insurers in the first quarter

Hospitals Bob Herman

Labor costs from Omicron surge drag Ascension into the red

Hospitals Tara Bannow

Hospital giant Tenet sues OSHA for attempting to inspect hospital under Covid-19 worker safety rule