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Health Theresa Gaffney

‘Our community is supported at the highest levels’: Adm. Rachel Levine on gender-affirming care

First Opinion Marc Auerbach

Respiratory infection surge sounds a wake-up call for pediatric emergency care

Hospitals Tara Bannow

Medicare punts on quality rules for new type of rural hospital

Politics Bob Herman

Physicians rally to avert Medicare payment cuts

Hospitals Tara Bannow

Advanced practice clinicians slightly more likely to take industry funding than doctors

First Opinion Amanda Krupa, Jill B. Roark and Kirsten Barrett

Hospitals need to make their websites as accessible as their physical spaces

Special Report Tara Bannow and Bob Herman

Private equity’s Welsh Carson, casting itself as a noble force, relentlessly pursues profits in health care

Politics Rachel Cohrs

Republican ideas to reform Medicare could rile health care industry

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Politics Bob Herman

Patient groups push federal government to enforce health care price estimates

Hospitals Tara Bannow

Hospital systems Sanford, Fairview plan to create $14 billion Midwest powerhouse

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First Opinion Mary Beth Kingston and Christopher S. Kang

Violence against health care workers is on the rise. They deserve protection

Politics STAT Staff

Health and science are on the ballot this election. Here’s what we’re watching

Insurance Katheryn Houghton — KHN

Montana may be moving away from its innovative plan for setting hospital prices for public workers

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

Health Ambar Castillo

In Fiona-ravaged Puerto Rico, hospitals were prioritized over health clinics for diesel, exacerbating rural health disparities

Hospitals Tara Bannow

Even as large health systems bleed money, children’s hospitals are faring well

First Opinion Cynthia A. Fisher

CBO’s dismissal of health care price transparency is based on faulty premises

Exclusive Rachel Cohrs

Medicare tasks a senior adviser with staffing its new drug pricing division

Insurance Bob Herman

Errors have plagued insurance directories of doctors. The government wants to clean them up with its own

Politics Bob Herman

Get a Ph.D. in health policy — from a single Powerpoint slide

Hospitals Tara Bannow and Kate Sheridan

Harassment prompts children’s hospitals to strip websites, threatening access to gender-affirming care

Health Care Inc. Bob Herman

Medicare Advantage boosterism, providers’ surprise billing savior in Texas, and a health insurance firewall

First Opinion Gracie Himmelstein, Joniqua Ceasar and Kathryn E.W. Himmelstein

Hospital financing in black and white

Health Care Inc. Bob Herman

A teaching hospital payout, Humana flirts with Wall Street, and new dialysis incentives

First Opinion Elizabeth Mitchell and Mike Thompson

As hospitals raise their prices, U.S. workers and businesses suffer

Special Report Usha Lee McFarling

‘So much more to do’: A hospital system’s campaign to confront racism — and resistance to change — makes early strides

Hospitals Bob Herman

How North Carolina hospitals justify thwarting Medicaid expansion

Hospitals Bob Herman

Hospitals wrangle billions in FEMA funding to offset Covid costs

Hospitals Tara Bannow

Biden administration largely stands firm on its method for resolving surprise billing disputes

Hospitals Tara Bannow

Hospital mergers that dodge antitrust scrutiny lead to dramatically higher prices, study finds

Hospitals Edward Chen

Access to trauma care is improving across the country, but progress remains uneven

Business Bob Herman

Health care industry swarms Washington as surprise billing rules get ironed out

Hospitals Tara Bannow

Medicare reverses course on plan to hide hospital safety data next year