Hospitals Tara Bannow STAT Plus: Life or death decisions and no feedback: New study highlights the value of patient tracking, especially in the ER
Politics Rachel Cohrs STAT Plus: Five of Congress’ 10 biggest health earmarks went to Missouri clinics and universities
Business Bob Herman STAT Plus: A glaring gap in Congress’ surprise billing law leaves patients on the hook for pricey, out-of-network lab tests
Business Rachel Cohrs STAT Plus: Private equity firms are cashing in on the travel nursing business that has boomed during the pandemic
Special Report Lev Facher ‘It’s soul-draining’: Health workers deployed to Covid hot zones are overwhelmed by deaths among the unvaccinated
Health Care Inc. Bob Herman Wall Street’s love affair with insurers, hospitals pressure Medicare, and swimming in a risk pool
Hospitals Rachel Cohrs STAT Plus: A rich Republican businessman is an unlikely champion for lower hospital prices — but he’s winning the fight
Hospitals Tara Bannow STAT Plus: Study suggests a new harm from hospital mergers: less price transparency
Hospitals Tara Bannow STAT Plus: Justice Department says sweeping lab test fraud in Texas involved dozens of doctors and front companies
Politics Rachel Cohrs Desperate for relief amid Covid-19, hospitals find an uncommonly staunch advocate in Susan Collins
Health Andrew Joseph and Rachel Cohrs Alzheimer’s patients are in limbo as hospitals, insurers grapple with whether to offer Aduhelm
Politics Rachel Cohrs STAT Plus: Hospitals and pharma are both on the hook to help fund infrastructure deal
Health Marion Renault ‘There is a real cost’: As Covid shows, barring bedside visitors from ICU deprives patients of the best care
Hospitals Rachel Cohrs STAT Plus: Supreme Court to take up hospitals’ challenge to Medicare drug pay cuts
Politics Rachel Cohrs STAT Plus: Buying the data: Health care lobbyists fund their own policy analyses, clouding Washington debates
Politics Rachel Cohrs STAT Plus: There’s no point person in Biden’s HHS for its $187 billion Covid-19 fund for health care providers
Health Kate Sheridan At least 4 founders of Time’s Up Healthcare resign as organization mum on sexual harassment suit
Special Report Rachel Cohrs Hospitals’ Covid-19 heroics have them poised for power in the new Washington
Health Megan Thielking Frustrated and afraid about protective gear shortages, health workers are scouring for masks on their own