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JANUARY 3, 2023

For almost three years, hospitals and health insurers have been riding the waves of the Covid-19 pandemic. As a result, Medicaid enrollment soared more than 30% from December 2019 to August 2022 , reaching 83.5 Even though they can better predict what lies ahead in 2023, there remain several big unknowns. million people.

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Hospitals Health Insurance Companies 240

STAT

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Hospitals are frustrated with a nationwide nursing shortage that’s only gotten worse since the pandemic. In 2022, the American Hospital Association quoted an estimate that half a million nurses would leave the field by the end of that year, bringing the total shortage to 1.1

Hospitals 363

Hospitals 363

STAT

JULY 26, 2023

recently recalled a slew of injectable medicines used by hospitals over concerns about possible side effects and a newly released regulatory report underscores the extent of the problem. One of the largest compound pharmacy operations in the U.S. facility run by Central Admixture Pharmacy Services.

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Compounding Hospitals Compounding Pharmacies 245

STAT

JANUARY 17, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO — More than a dozen of the country’s large not-for-profit hospital systems descended on this year’s J.P. “Growth is really important to us,” said Rob McMurray, CFO of ChristianaCare, a hospital system headquartered in Delaware that has $2.6

Hospitals 195

Hospitals Inpatient 195

STAT

APRIL 8, 2024

The country’s biggest hospital chain, HCA Healthcare , told the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services it doled out almost $1 billion more in financial assistance to needy patients than it reported on its financial statement in 2022, helping the enormously profitable company extract billions of dollars from taxpayer-funded programs.

Hospitals 355

Hospitals 355

STAT

OCTOBER 17, 2024

UnitedHealth Group, Humana, and CVS Health targeted denials among older adults who were requesting care in nursing homes, inpatient rehab hospitals, and long-term hospitals.

Nursing Homes 363

Nursing Homes Inpatient Hospitals 363

STAT

JANUARY 3, 2024

Hospitals and clinics are expecting a slightly better 2024 compared to last year thanks to a return to mostly in-person care, patients resuming preventive visits and the gradual easing of labor costs and shortages. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

Hospitals 263

Hospitals 263

STAT

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Credit analysts have warned this would happen since mid-2022, but some not-for-profit hospitals are just now calculating breaches along with their 2022 financial losses.

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Hospitals 237

STAT

DECEMBER 30, 2022

This year, STAT deepened its footholds in a number of coverage areas, from hospitals and insurance to reproductive health to health tech. Our staff also looked with admiration — and some envy — to many other journalists doing great reporting in these spaces.

Hospitals 238

Hospitals 238

Drug Channels

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

In 2022, specialty pharmacies—via white, brown, and clear bagging—now constitute a meaningful share of the distribution channels for provider-administered oncology drugs. However, buy-and-bill appears to have rebounded substantially at hospitals. Read more » Copyright © 2006-2022 Pembroke Consulting, Inc.

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Hospitals Specialty Pharmacies 97

STAT

MARCH 10, 2025

In 2022, the Mayo Clinic signed a five-year partnership with the dairy checkoff, a program overseen by the U.S. But a partnership between the dairy industry and the Mayo Clinic, one of the top-ranked health systems in the U.S., is drawing criticism for its potential to undermine the Minnesota powerhouse’s credibility.

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Mayo Clinic Communication Hospitals 336

STAT

MARCH 3, 2025

In 2022, a U.S. The long-running federal lawsuit was settled on the eve of trial on Sunday. It would have been the second time the case, Sidibe v. Sutter Health, was tried before a jury. appeals court determined that a judge’s error caused the jury to miss out on crucial details and overturned Sutter’s win. 

Hospitals 259

Hospitals 259

STAT

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In December 2022, on the day  Fanale retired as president and CEO of Care New England , he shared his diagnosis with a Globe reporter but requested it be kept private. “Many times, I wanted to say ‘Listen buddy, you don’t know what I’ve got in me,’” Fanale recalled recently with a chuckle.

Hospitals 263

Hospitals 263

STAT

JUNE 5, 2024

When Sutter Health was on trial for anticompetitive conduct in 2022, the San Francisco jury missed out on some crucial details. They didn’t hear, for example, how its former finance chief said the system would make an extra $200 million per year by making insurers contract with all of its hospitals instead of just a few.

Hospitals 263

Hospitals 263

STAT

JANUARY 17, 2024

The failure of Geisinger Health System, which lost $842 million in 2022 and disappeared into a new Kaiser subsidiary called Risant, sent shockwaves through the health care community in the spring of 2023. Founded in 1919, Geisinger was in the vanguard of the so-called “value-based care” movement.

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Hospitals 321

STAT

MARCH 17, 2023

health care system is facing a new and costly threat that will affect patient care and ultimately may lead to hospital closures : paying for and processing a torrent of medical record requests. The already beleaguered U.S.

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HIPAA Medical Records Hospitals 233

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MARCH 26, 2024

Food and Drug Administration’s oversight of clinical research in hospitals and clinics has fallen considerably in recent years, due to disruptions caused by the Covid pandemic and challenges finding and keeping investigators, according to a new report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

Hospitals 270

Hospitals 270

STAT

MAY 15, 2023

In the early days of the Covid pandemic, gravely ill patients began to fill America’s hospitals. In a 2021 APC survey, more than 80 pharmacies nationwide reported they had provided compounded versions of those essential drugs to hospitals under the temporary guidance.

Compounding Pharmacies 242

Compounding Pharmacies Compounding Hospitals 242

STAT

JANUARY 3, 2023

The number of people in the United States hospitalized with Covid-19 is about to surpass the figure reached during this summer’s spike, federal data show , as a confluence of factors — from the continued evolution of the coronavirus to holiday gatherings — drives transmission. Read the rest…

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Hospitals 250

STAT

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

billion combined last year, compared with $4 billion in 2022. million in 2022. But the biggest names in health care still made $3.5 The average chief executive brought home $11 million, while the median was $4.1 Those figures compared to an average of $13 million and median of $4.3

Pharmaceutical Companies 360

Pharmaceutical Companies Pharmaceutical Companies Hospitals 360

STAT

MARCH 8, 2024

21 , hospitals, pharmacies, and other health care providers have had varying degrees of difficulty getting paid for their services, with some racking up significant claims backlogs. Its claims network and software will take longer. Since the company announced the attack on Feb. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

Hospitals 272

Hospitals 272

STAT

JANUARY 4, 2023

In 2022, however, gears shifted. From late summer onward in the United States, hospitals have been packed with people sick with one respiratory illness or another. For the first two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, people working in the infectious diseases and global health spheres were largely focused on the new disease.

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Hospitals 244

Pharma Times

JANUARY 11, 2024

In 2022, around 8% of patients survived 30 days after a cardiac arrest

Hospitals 153

Hospitals 153

STAT

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

A House committee on Wednesday advanced legislation that would extend Medicare telehealth flexibilities and a home hospital program adopted during the pandemic, the final step before the bills face a vote by the full House of Representatives.

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Hospitals 245

Proxsys Rx

JANUARY 24, 2025

billion in revenue in 2024; whereas in 2022 (the latest years for which figures are available), some $2.58 Additionally, its estimated that in 2024 the average 340B hospital lost nearly $3 million to unlawful drug manufacturer pricing restrictions. Full pricing and patient-care control for 340B hospitals. And provider incomes.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Specialty Pharmacies Independent Pharmacies 52

STAT

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

“This integration […] is really something that’s never happened before,” said Lisa Simon, a dental-licensed physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and one of STAT’s 2022 Wunderkinds. Read the rest…

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Hospitals 249

STAT

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Researchers compared survey data from 2018 and 2022, finding that health workers experienced poorer mental health outcomes post-pandemic. Of those surveyed, 46% of health workers reported feeling burnout often or very often in 2022, compared to 32% in 2018. Read the rest…

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Hospitals 345

STAT

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

billion in 2022, an 18% increase from the previous year, according to the U.S. Prescription medicines purchased in the U.S. under a controversial government discount program amounted to $53.7 Health Resources & Service Administration, which oversees the program.

Hospitals 278

Hospitals 278

STAT

MARCH 31, 2025

  A double whammy for fraudsters  In 2022, a 58-year-old Idaho woman was jailed and ordered to repay over $200,000 for defrauding Idaho’s Medicaid program. More government layoffs, a national security leak, and everyone’s mad about The Bachelor’s pick. Let’s catch you up.

Drug Development 148

Drug Development Hospitals 148

STAT

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Highmark Health, a large regional health insurer that also owns a chain of hospitals, is now covering a handful of digital treatments for chronic pain and other conditions for millions of its patients. The move, which could provide a boost to digital therapeutics makers, may feel like déjà vu for close industry observers. 

Hospitals 228

Hospitals 228

STAT

JANUARY 17, 2023

retail drug purchases. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

Drug Pricing 236

Drug Pricing Hospitals 236

Drug Channels

JUNE 6, 2022

We found that retail pharmacies and drugstores employed fewer pharmacists, while hospitals and outpatient centers continued to add positions. Read more » Copyright © 2006-2022 Pembroke Consulting, Inc. As a result, the share of pharmacists who work in non-retail practice settings reached a new high. d/b/a Drug Channels Institute.

Hospitals 98

Hospitals Physician Offices 98

STAT

OCTOBER 25, 2024

It found that between 2022 and 2023, as prescriptions for GLP-1 drugs more than doubled, rates of bariatric surgery fell by 25.6%. Read the rest…

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Hospitals 348

Drug Channels

APRIL 12, 2023

In Drug Channels Institute’s list of the top 15 pharmacies of 2022 , we show that central-fill, mail pharmacies operated by large PBMs and health insurers have displaced retail chains as the largest prescription drug dispensers by revenues. Read more » Copyright © 2006-2023 Pembroke Consulting, Inc. d/b/a Drug Channels Institute.

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Specialty Pharmacies Independent Pharmacies Hospitals 98

STAT

JUNE 9, 2023

Cothran explained that under the deal, Oklahoma made an upfront payment for the products, called reSET and reSET-O, and would “measure hospital and ER visits on the back end” with the understanding that Pear would reimburse the state if the products didn’t save money. “We’re just very, very cautious.

Hospitals 244

Hospitals 244

STAT

MARCH 6, 2024

The playing field changed in 2022 when Cerner merged with cloud titan Oracle , coinciding with a loss in its large health system customers in the U.S., Cerner may have ceded U.S.   Epic and Cerner have long been in a head-to-head race for medical software contracts. according to health care technology research firm KLAS.

Cerner 336

Cerner Hospitals 336

Drug Channels

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

For 2022, discounted purchases under the 340B program reached a record $53.7 Hospitals accounted for 87% of 340B purchases for 2022. Another surprise: HRSA estimated that manufacturers' contract pharmacy restrictions reduced 340B purchases by only $470 million—or less than 1% of 2022's total purchases.

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Drug Pricing Hospitals 96