Utah's Intermountain Healthcare is the latest health system to postpone surgeries again to preserve capacity during a surge of COVID-19 patients.

Pumping milk at JPM was a nightmare. It’s part of a bigger problem in the industry.

Private equity’s focus on profits has transformed a popular, personalized form of autism therapy called ABA into “fast food therapy” and put far more pressure on both families and providers, dozens...

Private equity investors are backing all of the major chains offering the country’s most popular form of autism therapy, ABA. But there are signs that those investors may be cooling on the industry.

Patients are caught in the middle of the never-ending war on high hospital prices. Leaders from various parts of the industry say it’s not their respective sector’s fault.

Nearly 100 people reached out to STAT following a column on the difficulty of pumping breastmilk at JPM, many sharing similar stories.

A patient with a rare kidney disease was kept in limbo after her Blues plan denied coverage of a pricey infusion drug that had saved her life years earlier.

STAT spoke with health economist Ben Handel to provide context on Change Healthcare, and why a cyberattack on Change is such a big deal.

Hospitals were less safe during #Covid19, data show. And now Medicare wants to let hospitals keep more safety information hidden going forward.

Critics say HCA’s cost-cutting is gutting a storied hospital system and endangering Appalachian patients — and it serves as a warning for the whole U.S. health care system.

The AHA lobbies hard on behalf of its thousands of member hospitals. Now, though, it’s dipping its toes into a very different arena: venture capital investing.

Medicare won’t stop publishing some hospital safety data next year after all. Regulators reversed course after backlash from patient safety groups.

Change Healthcare cyberattack outage could persist for weeks, UnitedHealth Group executive suggests.

The rule, part of a decade-long feud between the health insurance industry and regulators, will likely invite lawsuits from industry groups.

Once seen as a way to innovate, many hospitals are now dialing back on venture capital investing in an era of tight margins. Some say they never quite got it right.

A new JAMA study finds quality is only marginally better but prices are much higher when patients get care at health systems versus non-system owned facilities.

Almost 90% of health care companies Moody’s classifies as being under financial stress are owned by private equity. Weakened by high debt loads, they were less resilient to Covid or a new legal...

Nearly 100 people reached out to STAT following a column on the difficulty of pumping breastmilk at JPM, many sharing similar stories.

A new Government Accountability Office report says the Trump administration did not implement 27 out of 31 recommendations it made for improving its response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Cardiology is private equity’s latest fixation. Experts fear the financial investors could pour gas on the specialty’s overuse problem.

A new lawsuit accuses Cigna of using an algorithm to automatically deny claims in bulk instead of individually reviewing each case.

Cash-strapped medical schools have long relied on money from hospitals, but the transfers are getting more attention as hospital executives look to shore up their own finances.

Hospitals are donating unpaid debt to a Tulsa-based not-for-profit that claims to connect patients with social services while also partnering with a debt collector, an arrangement some experts say...

“I do think it’s cool to open up the conversation about poops. We can learn so much from our poops.”

A new study finds much better outcomes and lower costs when hip and knee replacements are performed by high-volume surgeons compared with low-volume ones.

Next year, UnitedHealthcare will offer employer health plans that have no copays or out-of-pocket costs for five vital drugs, including insulin and naloxone.

Tenet is suing OSHA for trying to inspect one of its hospitals under a Covid-19 worker safety rule that the hospital chain says has lapsed. Meanwhile, hospitals are fighting OSHA’s attempt to make...

JPMorgan's business unit Morgan Health, started to control its health care costs and help other employers, still has lofty goals, its CEO told reporters at #JPM24.

STAT staffers are sharing their favorite stories of 2022 — that they wish they had written.

A top Sutter Health finance executive said during testimony in a federal trial that her organization is not required to provide free or discounted care, otherwise known as charity care, as a condit...

The stock price of R1 RCM tanked by roughly 50% this week after the large medical billing and collections company reported an unexpected $30 million loss in the third quarter.

A collective of businesses and individuals in Summit County, Colo., will negotiate prices for healthcare services directly with providers and will take those rates to insurers.

Three patient advocacy groups are suing the Biden administration to challenge a federal regulation they say prevents patients from using drugmaker discounts like copay coupons.

There’s more churn and more reliance on nurse practitioners and physician assistants after private equity takes over physician practices, a new Health Affairs study finds.

Just as hospitals’ contract labor problem eases, another is taking its place: physician subsidies. “This is the new cost issue that the industry is having to deal with.”

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau questions whether medical debts should appear on credit reports at all.

With a few exceptions, top-level healthcare executives continue to see big gains in compensation, a trend at odds with the industry’s push for cost control and accountability.

Congress has abandoned its attempt to reform how PBMs operate in an upcoming package to fund the federal government, 11 sources said.

Hospitals are donating unpaid debt to a Tulsa-based not-for-profit that claims to connect patients with social services while also partnering with a debt collector, an arrangement some experts say...

A DOJ complaint describes a sweeping fraud scheme in Texas involving dozens of doctors and front companies.

The troubled hospital operator, with eight Massachusetts hospitals, plans to sell its nationwide physician network to UnitedHealth’s Optum Care unit.

Providers like Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare, UW Medicine in Seattle and M Health Fairview in Minneapolis have opened drive-through testing sites where patients can be tested for COVID-19 without...

As cigarette sales decline and Philip Morris stares down projections of plummeting revenue streams, the company has been investing in health care instead. Critics say the effort is insincere.

Hospitals that merge under state regulations that shield them from federal scrutiny tend to eventually break free of those controls and raise prices substantially, new research finds.

STAT's John Wilkerson was in the room as a judge questioned AstraZeneca lawyers who are trying to stop Medicare from negotiating drug prices. Here’s how it went.

The finance chief of the country’s largest private psychiatric hospital operator, UHS, made a blunt statement today: The company admits patients based on whose insurance pays more.

The Federal Trade Commission alleged Welsh Carson and U.S. Anesthesia Partners formed a monopoly in order to drive up prices and boost their profits.

Welsh Carson paints itself as nobler than other private equity firms. STAT’s special report on its investment strategy reveals a relentless pursuit of profits — one that can come at the expense of...

A panel of government advisers wants to cap on how much patients would have to pay if they took an ambulance.

The FTC and DOJ got a flood of comments urging them to adopt their proposed merger rules, including many from regular people disillusioned by the effects of consolidation, especially in health care.

A new report from the professional services firm JLL says the number of healthcare tenants in retail settings could double by 2022.

Envision Healthcare declined to say why its CEO, Chris Holden, stepped down. The departure comes amid a congressional investigation into surprise billing.

Ahead of the dealmaking & hobnobbing of #JPM2024, STAT took a look at which #healthcare sectors draw the most profit. More surprising might be who doesn’t. Take a look:

Hospitals in Wisconsin filed more lawsuits in 2018 than in 2001, and a higher share of them resulted in wage garnishment in recent years, according to a Health Affairs study.

The federal antitrust lawsuit alleges Sutter Health imposes all-or-nothing contracts on fully insured health plans.

Nearly three-quarters of not-for-profit hospitals spent less on community benefits than the value of their tax exemptions in 2018, the Lown Institute found.

The Biden administration largely stood firm on its plan for resolving disputes over surprise medical bills, despite vocal opposition from physicians and other providers.

Health insurers aired concerns about the Biden administration’s plans for Medicare Advantage audits at #JPM23, and hinted that they’ll sue if they don’t like what they see.

Not-for-profit CommonSpirit Health paid its former CEO, Lloyd Dean, $35.5 million in 2021. That’s more than twice what the CEO of similarly sized Ascension made that year.

Five months after @TheMarkup and @statnews co-published an investigation into #hospital websites’ use of @Meta’s tracking tool, hospitals are still contending with related lawsuits.