Hospitals

First Opinion Cynthia A. Fisher

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

Exclusive Rachel Cohrs

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

Insurance Bob Herman

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

Politics Bob Herman

STAT Plus: 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

STAT Plus: 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

STAT Plus: How North Carolina hospitals justify thwarting Medicaid expansion

Hospitals Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Hospitals wrangle billions in FEMA funding to offset Covid costs

Hospitals Tara Bannow

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

Hospitals Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: 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

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

Hospitals Tara Bannow

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

Health Tech Akila Muthukumar

STAT Plus: Buprenorphine treatment for veterans with opioid use disorder increased as care shifted to telehealth during Covid, study finds

Health Tech Akila Muthukumar

STAT Plus: Serving as a ‘clinical colleague,’ AI shows potential to reduce sepsis deaths in real-world studies

Hospitals Tara Bannow

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

Business Bob Herman

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

Business Bob Herman

STAT Plus: 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

First Opinion Ted Okon

Hospitals and for-profit PBMs are diverting billions in 340B savings from patients in need

Health Olivia Goldhill

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

Hospitals Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: Medicare wants to stop publishing some hospital safety data next year

Hospitals Rachel Cohrs

STAT Plus: A rich Republican businessman is an unlikely champion for lower hospital prices — but he’s winning the fight

First Opinion Cliff A. Megerian and Peter Pronovost

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

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Supreme Court rules in favor of insurance plan that pushed kidney failure patient to Medicare