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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

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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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Hospitals’ list prices for surgeries, therapies, and other procedures always come with massive discounts. Financial documents at a prominent hospital system in Los Angeles show just how large those discounts are — and how raw of a deal uninsured patients could be getting. Cedars-Sinai reported more than $10.2

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JULY 25, 2024

That’s when thousands of new medical school graduates enter teaching hospitals across the country and provide care to patients as doctors for the first time. “Everything is new and full of possibilities,” said Faust, an emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

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JUNE 21, 2024

A federal judge has sided with a powerful hospital lobby in a legal battle with regulators over hospitals’ use of third-party website trackers to gather details about visitors’ online behavior. North Texas U.S. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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JUNE 3, 2024

More than a year ago, Kaiser Permanente made waves when it said it was creating a new, sprawling entity of nonprofit hospitals and doctors with Geisinger as its first takeover — the latest example of health care companies bulking up in an already highly consolidated industry. Nothing has happened since then, at least publicly.

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JUNE 18, 2024

hospitals need to prepare for the worst and hope for the best. While there is yet no evidence of human-to-human transmission of the H5N1 virus, this could emerge at any time, underscoring the urgent need for hospitals to bolster their preparedness for potential additional human cases of H5N1. The three human cases of H5N1 in the U.S.

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APRIL 23, 2024

The trend is clear: When hospitals in the same community merge, prices spike. The government has such an easy time blocking those deals, hospitals rarely propose them anymore. But a study released Tuesday adds to a growing body of evidence that prices still go up even if the merging hospitals are far apart.

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JUNE 5, 2024

A federal judge ordered Wednesday that Novant Health can move forward with its plan to buy two North Carolina hospitals, denying the Federal Trade Commission’s request for an injunction. The hospitals, Lake Norman Regional Medical Center and Davis Regional Medical Center, are only a 25-minute drive from one another.

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DECEMBER 26, 2023

Hospitals acquired by private equity saw a 25% uptick in adverse events compared with controls, according to a new study released today in the Journal of the American Medical Association. There’s ample evidence that private equity buyouts in health care drive up costs. A new study shows quality declines, too.

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APRIL 22, 2024

The full scale of the impact, though, has been obscured in a polarized political climate where physicians are often afraid to speak out, or are blocked by their hospitals from talking about their experiences post-Dobbs.

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APRIL 26, 2024

The lawsuit, filed by for-profit hospital company Allegiance Health Management, builds on the contentious relationship between hospitals and MultiPlan, a data technology vendor that works with the biggest insurers to determine how much should be paid for care that is delivered outside of an insurance network.

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OCTOBER 10, 2023

WASHINGTON — Hospitals get tax breaks that are worth far more than the value of the charity care they provide in return for their tax-exempt status, according to a report by Senate health committee Chair Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). The American Hospital Association called the report “just plain wrong.”

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JUNE 19, 2024

Just two weeks ago, it appeared Novant Health was on the precipice of finalizing a deal to acquire two hospitals north of Charlotte, even though federal antitrust regulators, North Carolina officials, and economists were worried the deal would give Novant near-monopoly power in the region.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Hospitals, pharmacies, and other health care providers are getting stuck in an insurance processing logjam after UnitedHealth Group disclosed a cyberattack within a recently acquired subsidiary that serves as a central hub for payments across the industry.

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JANUARY 10, 2024

A lawsuit between a large hospital system and a dominant vendor that works for health insurance companies is getting a lot more heated — with one party calling the other an “economic parasite.” Morgan Healthcare Conference. AdventHealth did not attend this year’s conference, but did so last year.

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APRIL 29, 2024

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration’s plan to improve cybersecurity at hospitals starts off with incentives, but eventually hospitals will face penalties for not adopting measures to protect patient data, HHS Deputy Secretary Andrea Palm said Monday. billion to pay hospitals to beef up their systems.

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JUNE 25, 2024

For the first time, organ donors who were declared brain-dead were moved out of the hospital and into an independent, freestanding center to have their organs removed. With these patients out of the precious and limited ICU beds, the hospital could devote its time and resources to living patients.

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MARCH 26, 2024

A new study of hospitals’ charity care spending suggests nonprofit hospitals really aren’t that different from their for-profit counterparts. One major benefit of being a nonprofit hospital is receiving tax exemptions on property taxes, income taxes, and sales taxes.

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APRIL 23, 2024

Over the past two decades, hundreds of hospital mergers have escaped federal antitrust scrutiny and led to both higher prices and less competition, a new study shows. But the study’s authors, and other researchers, believe the Federal Trade Commission’s hands often are tied.

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MAY 6, 2024

Steward Health Care, which once trumpeted its community hospital system as a low-cost alternative to Boston’s medical goliaths before expanding nationally and falling into a deep financial crisis, filed for bankruptcy protection early Monday morning. ” Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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JANUARY 8, 2024

SAN FRANCISCO — If you learned anything about nonprofit hospitals on the first day of the J.P. Making money outside of patient care — or “revenue diversification,” if you prefer industry jargon — has always made appearances on hospital slides at the annual investor conference in San Francisco.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Chicago pediatric hospital Lurie Children’s has been forced to take its network offline in the face of a “cybersecurity matter” as experts warn of heightened threats against health systems across the country. The disruptions reportedly began Wednesday.

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APRIL 8, 2024

The world’s first recipient of a kidney transplant from a genetically modified pig experienced a rejection episode before recovering and leaving the hospital last week, a Massachusetts General Hospital doctor told STAT. But in his first few days back at home in Weymouth, Mass.,

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APRIL 4, 2024

The prices charged by hospitals are exorbitant and rising. Here’s just the tip of the iceberg: $722.50 for a nurse to push a drug into an IV. 21,500 for ten stitches. Private health insurance premiums paid by working age adults are rising rapidly.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Five years after investor-owned HCA Healthcare took over an esteemed nonprofit hospital in North Carolina, Medicare is threatening to cut off payment for any services it provides seniors. The rare and dramatic move follows a Medicare revelation that patient safety is in “immediate jeopardy” at Mission Hospital in Asheville.

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DECEMBER 7, 2023

The two leaders of the Senate Budget Committee on Thursday launched a bipartisan investigation into private equity ownership of hospitals in the United States, citing concerns that such arrangements are bad for both health care providers and patients. in a statement.

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APRIL 17, 2024

Federal rules forcing hospitals and insurers to post rates for medical procedures have taken effect, but the data’s so messy that a crop of new startups is rushing in to make a business out of parsing it for whoever is willing to pay.

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OCTOBER 30, 2023

Physician staffing firms, flailing in the wake of a federal law banning surprise bills, are demanding extra payment from hospitals to stay afloat. Hospitals, desperate for doctors to staff their facilities, have little choice but to comply. It’s a big topic of conversation on for-profit hospital earnings calls.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

A 24-year-old wrote that after his hometown hospital in Indiana merged with a bigger group, his mom, who worked there, found it harder to provide good care amid staff cuts and reduced support. An internal medicine doctor in Wisconsin said after his hospital merged, colleagues were fired, drug shortages got worse, and prices skyrocketed.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The federal government is moving forward with a spate of proposals that will force hospitals to be better about publishing the prices they charge health insurers and patients. Federal law has required hospitals to post their prices since 2021. But the pricing information is still tough to find and confusing to interpret.

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JUNE 6, 2023

One of the last vestiges of the pandemic seems to be mask mandates in hospitals, which are now being lifted in the U.S. On the other, for those who are not vulnerable or immune compromised, most facets of life have returned to normal, thanks to high levels of immunity from vaccines, boosters, and past infections. Read the rest…

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MARCH 6, 2024

Some hospital systems have started charging patients for digital messages to their doctors via the electronic medical record, either a flat rate (like a copay) or on sliding scale depending on the time or complexity of the physician’s response. Thinking about messaging your physician about a weird rash? You may want to hold off on it.

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JUNE 21, 2024

But the relatively small system has an outsized reputation for keeping locals healthy and out of hospitals, according to the CEO of the health care network that struck a deal to acquire it. based nonprofit collective of doctors, hospitals, and health insurers, last year. Kaiser Permanente formed the Washington, D.C.-based

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MAY 3, 2024

WASHINGTON — The Senate Finance Committee has drafted a bipartisan bill to mitigate drug shortages by rewarding hospitals for business practices that ensure an adequate supply of drugs. Hospitals band together to negotiate drug prices by hiring group purchasing organizations. Finance Chair Ron Wyden (D-Ore.)

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

More older adults have been hospitalized for Covid-19 over the past several weeks, according to internal data reviewed by health insurance giant Humana. But it didn’t expect the uptick to come during the waning summer months.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

drug discount program overcharged the federal government and numerous hospitals by hundreds of millions of dollars, according to claims made in a recently unsealed lawsuit. The federal government program requires drugmakers to offer discounts on all outpatient drugs used by hospitals and clinics that primarily serve lower-income patients.

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JANUARY 30, 2024

The ubiquity of AI tools like ChatGPT could be a boon to hospitals eager for diagnostic aids or administrative assistants that can flag crucial medical details and ease the burden of repetitive tasks. Meanwhile, regulators and cyber companies are urging hospitals to upgrade their security to prepare.

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