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STAT
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
WASHINGTON — The hospital industry has pushed back against Medicare payment reforms for years, arguing that the policies would financially hurt rural hospitals. Hospitals that keep providing services like trauma centers, labor and delivery units, and burn units would get financial bonuses, too.
STAT
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
At most hospitals, it takes between hours and days to translate discharge notes for outpatients who have limited English proficiency. Now Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is taking the next step, beginning to pilot a program that will use generative AI to translate discharge notes for Spanish-speaking patients in seconds.
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STAT
OCTOBER 5, 2024
to testify before a Senate committee about the extreme cost-savings measures mandated by the hospital’s parent company, the now-bankrupt Steward Health Care. The private equity-backed company had been busy buying up hospitals and doctors’ groups, then putting the squeeze on them to maximize profits.
STAT
APRIL 14, 2024
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?
STAT
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Tuesday’s oral arguments before the Supreme Court in a case involving billions in Medicare payments to hospitals revealed a split among the justices willing to show their cards. The case, Advocate Christ Medical Center v. Two lower courts have already sided with HHS.
STAT
JULY 1, 2024
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.
STAT
OCTOBER 3, 2024
This week Medicare regulators released a 79-page report on a pandemic-era home hospital program that allowed approved health systems to deliver inpatient care in people’s homes. Over 300 hospitals enrolled in the program and the goal was to expand capacity at a time when people feared hospitals would be overrun.
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