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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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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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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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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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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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APRIL 3, 2023

Every hospital in America promises to protect the privacy of its patients and the details of their medical care. hospitals employed online data trackers in 2021 that transmitted visitors’ information to a broad network of outside parties, including major technology companies, data brokers, and private equity firms.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The cyberattack that forced Ascension to shut off access to its electronic health records cost the nonprofit hospital system roughly $1.3 billion, according to STAT’s analysis of financial documents the health system released Tuesday evening. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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NOVEMBER 22, 2022

With the official start of winter still weeks away, pediatric hospitals are facing crushing caseloads of children sick with RSV and other viral illnesses. A viral hurricane is making landfall on health care systems battered by three pandemic years.

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JULY 23, 2024

Hospitals across the country are facing a severe shortage of supplies of blood culture bottles, critical tools for diagnosing serious and sometimes life-threatening bloodstream infections. The shortage, which has been going on for weeks, could stretch into September, hospitals have been warned.

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MARCH 7, 2024

A new monoclonal antibody product to protect against respiratory syncytial virus was 90% effective at preventing little children from being hospitalized with RSV, according to new data from the first season it was in use.

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AUGUST 6, 2024

I believe it can also be seen as a characterization of work in a hospital, in which future physicians are simultaneously gaining remarkable skills and enduring career-altering abuse. Many chefs describe the television series “The Bear” as an accurate portrayal of the demands of a restaurant kitchen.

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OCTOBER 9, 2024

Hospitals across the country are struggling to conserve and stretch their supplies of IV fluids in the wake of a shortage brought on by Hurricane Helene, in some cases giving patients Gatorade instead of IVs and warning the issue could lead to delays in elective medical procedures in the near future.

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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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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.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Emanate Health, a nonprofit group of hospitals and physicians in California, filed a federal lawsuit Monday, alleging Optum pushed it to agree not to compete for primary care physicians, a violation of antitrust law.

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MARCH 13, 2024

As an intern at Duke University Medical Center in the ’90s, he’d sometimes be tasked with poring through a patient’s medical history to uncover the cause of their latest hospitalization. Back then, the stacks of paper records could tower 18 inches tall.

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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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DECEMBER 12, 2024

Yet amid this endless cycle of anxiety, one place surprisingly gave me solace: the hospital. As a long-time patient of Texas Children’s Hospital, I saw early on how health care stood apart — a field untouched by the grasp of immigration status, a space where humanity held precedence over nationality. Beginning Nov.

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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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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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AUGUST 5, 2024

Recovery from a cardiac-related hospitalization requires coordinated, timely care to prevent a return to the hospital for an avoidable readmission. A new study concludes that while the picture is getting brighter for all Medicare patients, persistent racial disparities are widening.

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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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SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Within a few days of one another, two teams of accountants released separate estimates on the value of nonprofit hospitals’ tax exemptions. Their wildly different findings underscore the degree to which who’s counting and what they count matters.    The first, a JAMA study published today , pegged that number at $37.4

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Private equity firms are leading the buyout of R1 RCM , a major provider of billing and administrative services for hospitals and physician groups. But R1’s hospital customers — some of the biggest systems in the country — were influential in steering the company to that outcome.

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

BARCELONA, Spain — Some of the patients waiting in the oncology ward of a hospital here, with its green-tiled floor and white walls, had arrived for a newfangled remedy for blood cancers, what’s known as a CAR-T therapy. Rather, they would be receiving a CAR-T brewed up right here at Hospital Clínic de Barcelona.

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MARCH 22, 2024

That’s why she and her organization have partnered with a hospital’s sports performance center to design fitness programs for Eleven-0’s members, who can also participate in research. “You feel like you’re getting what the Patriots next door get every day,” she said on a recent Friday afternoon.

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APRIL 25, 2024

Now, in an unusual step, the hospital where she works is trying to get the medicine approved on its own. LONDON — Claire Booth, a gene therapy researcher in London, had hoped that a biotech company would take her team’s work on an experimental medication for an ultra-rare children’s disease and get it to market.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Patients who received higher doses of buprenorphine, a common medication used to alleviate opioid withdrawal and cravings, were less likely to be hospitalized and less likely to discontinue treatment, according to a new study.    The findings run counter to federal guidelines about buprenorphine dosing.

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OCTOBER 14, 2024

When children’s hospitals around the country were subject to threats and harassment in 2022 over misconceptions about gender-affirming care services, many of them responded by stripping information about the care from their websites.

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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.  

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AUGUST 23, 2024

government agency said that a planned move by Johnson & Johnson to alter payment methods for some hospitals participating in a controversial drug discount program was “inconsistent” with federal law and requires approval before the company can proceed. The statement by the U.S. The move is slated for Oct.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

government agency has threatened Johnson & Johnson with sanctions if the company proceeds with plans to alter payment methods for some hospitals that participate in a federal drug discount program. In a letter sent on Tuesday, the U.S. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

NEW YORK — One Brooklyn Health, a safety net hospital system that serves some of this city’s poorest and sickest patients, would seem to be exactly the place to benefit most from the effort to remove race from calculations that assess kidney disease.

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JUNE 11, 2024

When Alexander Morris, a member of the Motown group The Four Tops , visited a Detroit-area Ascension hospital with chest pain and trouble breathing, he said the staff assumed he was mentally ill after he told them he was a famous singer.

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AUGUST 19, 2024

Private equity firms are sucking the resources out of America’s hospitals and nursing homes, and feeding on doctors to generate profits. Read the rest…

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

— There was the beeping of monitors, the stiff sheets, the sterile smell of the hospital room. When he’d worked in this hospital, he’d made sure patients didn’t wait longer than 15 minutes for that kind of care. Mostly, there was pain. Sharp, relentless pain.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Change Healthcare’s recent cyberattack has hospitals, doctors’ offices, and pharmacies across the country reeling as they struggle to process claims and bill patients. Experts told STAT it’s a glaring example of the risk of consolidation in health care. Vulnerabilities within a single company can be more easily exploited.

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