Hospitals

Health tech Brittany Trang

STAT Plus: HCA to expand the use of AI tool to automate clinical documentation in ER

Hospitals Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Anticompetitive hospital mergers skate by due to FTC’s shallow resources

Politics Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: FTC’s noncompete ban would force sweeping changes in health care, if it survives legal battle

Hospitals Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: The evidence grows: Prices spike after mergers between far-flung hospitals

Hospitals Liz Kowalczyk — Boston Globe

STAT Plus: ‘Devalued, disempowered, and unseen’: Mass General Brigham doctors react to latest merger step

Health Care Inc. Bob Herman

UnitedHealth ghosts Congress on Change cyberattack — for now

Hospitals Olivia Goldhill

Hospitals largely keep quiet on maternal care since Dobbs, STAT survey finds

Health tech Mohana Ravindranath

STAT Plus: Hospital price transparency rules are seeding a new crop of health tech startups

Insurance Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: UnitedHealth reaffirms financial outlook despite up to $1.6 billion hit from Change Healthcare cyberattack

Hospitals Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Mass General Brigham is ready to move on without Dana-Farber, CEO says

Health Care Inc. Bob Herman

HCA’s charity care filings are on hyperdrive

Hospitals Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: HCA reports almost $1 billion more in charity care to Medicare than to its shareholders, drawing more taxpayer money

Hospitals Travis Andersen — Boston Globe

STAT Plus: Mass. senators assail Steward Health Care during hearing on firm’s struggling hospitals

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Biden administration sticks with slight cuts to 2025 Medicare Advantage payments

Health Annalisa Merelli

New HHS guidance requires consent for pelvic, breast, and other sensitive examinations

Hospitals Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: UnitedHealth’s surprising new target: Struggling Steward’s physician group

Hospitals Brittany Trang

STAT Plus: Some nonprofit hospitals spend less on charity care than they receive in tax breaks, new analysis shows

Hospitals Adam Piore — Boston Globe

STAT Plus: How a for-profit health system’s push to expand ended in disappointment for a tiny island nation

Health Elizabeth Cooney

STAT Plus: Hospitals turn to sports performance centers to offer athletes elite care — for the right price

Business Brittany Trang and Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: UnitedHealth appears to be upping loan offers to providers, after Change cyberattack

Health tech Casey Ross

STAT Plus: Q&A: Amid AI frenzy in medicine, a federal regulator’s quest to create safeguards

Health tech Mohana Ravindranath

STAT Plus: AI health care companies say they’ll keep humans in the loop. But what does that actually mean?

Hospitals Katie Palmer and Casey Ross

STAT Plus: Hospitals struggle to validate AI-generated clinical summaries. ‘It’s a bit chaotic’

Hospitals Jon Chesto — Boston Globe

STAT Plus: For-profit health system’s Mass. hospitals teetering on the brink of financial disaster

Business Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: UnitedHealth gives timeline for Change restoration: payments up by late next week

Health tech Mohana Ravindranath

STAT Plus: Oracle Health chair says Cerner isn’t competing with Epic

Hospitals Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: RaDonda Vaught, nurse who accidentally killed patient, to speak at CommonSpirit event on patient safety

Exclusive Brittany Trang

STAT Plus: Change Healthcare cyberattack outage could persist for weeks, UnitedHealth Group executive suggests

Insurance Brittany Trang, Tara Bannow, and Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Experts say scale of Change cyberattack shows risk of centralized claims processing