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STAT+: Incoming Senate Majority Leader Thune hails from a state that relies on rural hospitals, telehealth

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the newly elected Senate majority leader, is big on telehealth, rural hospitals, and increasing transparency for drug middlemen. He represents a state that does not have much in the way of special interests in the health care industry beyond hospitals, doctors, and pharmacists. John Thune (R-S.D.),

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STAT+: Ascension is racing to unload hospitals as execs work to stem losses

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Louis-based health system through a period of explosive growth, adding hospital after hospital until it became one of the country’s biggest health systems. Ascension has lost almost $4 billion on operations from fiscal 2020 through fiscal 2023, triggering deals to offload almost 30 hospitals.

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STAT+: DOJ investigating Community Health Systems’ hospitals

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Community Health Systems is facing a new federal probe into its hospital billing practices more than four years after the hospital chain settled separate allegations of fraudulent overbilling.

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Opinion: Hospitals that make profits should pay taxes

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hospitals pay nothing in federal taxes. The agency uses a vague “community benefit” standard to liberally grant tax-exempt status to so-called nonprofit hospitals even as many of them are financially taking advantage of sick Americans with inflated medical bills. Where’s the community benefit in that?

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STAT+: Biden administration ignores calls to bolster hospital price transparency

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The federal government will not modify regulations that dictate how hospitals publish their prices for consumers, ignoring pleas from patient advocates who have said hospitals still are not fully complying with the 3-year-old law. The Biden administration on Wednesday proposed an annual rule that sets payment rates for hospitals.

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What happens when police and hospitals confiscate drugs?

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Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds.    Sign up here. Good morning! There’s sure to be a lot of news coming out of the Breakthrough Summit East today, which is taking place just a few blocks away from my favorite Shake Shack in Manhattan.

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STAT+: UnitedHealth and HCA clash over hospital chain’s rates in ‘battle of the giants’

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Contract disputes between hospitals and health plans have become routine, but they tend to be local , affecting a handful of hospitals and the people in the surrounding communities. It involves the country’s biggest private health insurer, UnitedHealthcare, and its biggest hospital chain, HCA Healthcare.

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