PhRMA

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In this case, the Berkeley Research Group (BRG) found that nearly 36% of all Medicare Part B therapy sales occurred at 340B hospitals in 2021 , up nearly 17 percentage points since 2012, meaning care is moving from physician offices and non-340B hospitals to 340B hospitals.

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Hospitals 286

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?

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Hospitals 145

Fierce Healthcare

JULY 19, 2024

A widespread outage to Microsoft systems has impacted health systems, hospitals and clinics as electronic health record software has been knocked offline, forcing providers to cancel non-emergency | A widespread outage to Microsoft systems has impacted health systems, hospitals and clinics as electronic health record software has been knocked offline, (..)

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Hospitals 135

STAT

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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STAT

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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Hospitals Medical Schools 109

Drug Topics

JANUARY 4, 2024

In response to a surge in cases of COVID-19, flu, and RSV, hospitals are reinstating mask guidelines to avoid adverse capacity outcomes and staffing shortages seen in prior years.

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Hospitals 201

Fierce Healthcare

JULY 25, 2024

Ascension Illinois is selling several hospitals and their associated physician practices, post-acute and senior living facilities to Prime Healthcare. | The agreement includes nine hospitals and four additional sites of care, all throughout Illinois.

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Hospitals 97

STAT

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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Hospitals Documentation Insurance 135

Fierce Healthcare

JULY 18, 2024

The hospital industry is warning that a proposed mandatory model for kidney transplants could introduce “unnecessary disruption and uncertainty to the transplant ecosystem” and ultimately undercut | Hospital lobbyists wrote that the Increasing Organ Transplant Access (IOTA) Model "is not fully developed and contains fundamental flaws” that would (..)

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Hospitals 96

STAT

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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Hospitals HIPAA 105

STAT

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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Hospitals Health Insurance Companies Insurance 123

STAT

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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Hospitals 144

Drug Topics

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Patients hospitalized for either virus had an increased risk of death, hospital readmission, and health problems in multiple organ systems over 18 months of follow-up.

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Hospitals 195

Drug Topics

JANUARY 22, 2024

Of the 2596 patients included in the study, the hospitalization rates were 31.5% for Omicron, 27.7% for influenza, and 81.7% for RSV.

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Hospitals 185

Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 30, 2024

Hospitals are off the hook for data reporting requirements that have been in place since the early COVID-19 pandemic. Hospitals were required to share COVID-19 admissions, ICU capacity and other related data on a daily basis during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, then the reporting frequency shifted.

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Hospitals 145

STAT

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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Hospitals 138

Fierce Healthcare

JULY 15, 2024

A medical supply company owner was named in the indictment that appears to describe the hospital's former CEO as another collaborator.

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Hospitals 111

pharmaphorum

JUNE 5, 2024

NHS hospitals in London have declared a critical incident caused by a ransomware attack on a pathology services provider, leading to cancelled procedures and patients having to be transferred to different care providers.

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Patient Care Hospitals 105

STAT

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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Hospitals 112

STAT

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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STAT

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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Hospitals 144

Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 15, 2024

Nearly every hospital is feeling the consequences of Change Healthcare’s cyberattack on their finances, patient care delivery, or both, according to reports from almost 1,000 hospitals compiled by | Almost 60% of surveyed hospitals reported at least $1 million of impacted revenues per day, and 74% said that the incident has had "direct" implications (..)

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Hospitals Patient Care 138

Fierce Healthcare

MAY 29, 2024

A new review of California patient volumes is the latest warning that hospital ransomware attacks have consequences that extend to other providers in their surrounding community.

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Hospitals 111

STAT

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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Hospitals Insurance 112

Fierce Healthcare

MAY 13, 2024

The gap between insurance plans and Medicare's payments to hospitals for inpatient and outpatient services widened over the course of just a couple of years, a new study from RAND Corporation | A new report from RAND Corporation highlighted just how much more employers and private insurers are paying hospitals for inpatient and outpatient services. (..)

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Insurance Hospitals 132

STAT

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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Hospitals 118

Fierce Healthcare

JULY 16, 2024

A bipartisan quartet of House representatives have introduced a bill peeling back restrictions on new or expanded physician-owned hospitals. Advocates and sponsoring legislators say the Physician Led and Rural Access to Quality Care Act would increase access to care in rural areas and increase care affordability.

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Hospitals 107

STAT

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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Hospitals 138

Drug Topics

JULY 14, 2023

A Western Australian study found the influenza vaccine has a possible protective effect against hospitalization for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).

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Hospitals Vaccines 182

Fierce Healthcare

MAY 6, 2024

The Hospital Insurance Trust Fund will be fully solvent for longer than previously projected, according to an annual Medicare Trustee report. | The Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund won't run out of money as quickly as expected. Here's how federal officials are reacting.

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Hospitals Insurance 122

STAT

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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Insurance Hospitals Insurance Processing 145

Fierce Healthcare

MAY 1, 2024

The latest batch of Hospital Safety Grades from independent watchdog The Leapfrog Group suggest that patients’ care experiences, which deteriorated during and since the pandemic, may finally be tur | New data from the watchdog reflecting CMS-reported patient safety measures show that hospitals are, on average, working their way back from patient experience (..)

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Hospitals Patient Care 124

Fierce Healthcare

MAY 9, 2024

A slew of bills targeting enhanced access to care within rural communities have, to the applause of the hospital industry, passed through committee to the full House of Representatives. | A handful of bills sent to the full House Wednesday would extend or expand greater funding for various types of rural hospitals.

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Hospitals 122

Fierce Healthcare

MAY 28, 2024

Hospital lobbies have signed onto a multi-sector letter of 230 industry associations and chambers of commerce urging the Federal Trade Commission to bump the effective date of its ban on employee n | The American Hospital Association and the Federation of American Hospitals are among 230 groups urging the regulator to put the final rule on hold pending (..)

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Hospitals 124

Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 27, 2024

Nineteen rural Minnesota hospitals and their 50-plus clinics have banded together to form a clinically integrated network (CIN) serving more than 750,000 people. Headwaters High-Value Network aligns 19 independent hospitals for greater care coordination, cost savings and other efficiencies of scale.

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Hospitals 88

Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 3, 2024

Amid a relatively strong first quarter for the sector, hospitals’ financial performance improved from March to April, per a new Kaufman Hall report. | Margins, outpatient revenue and operating room minutes all increased in April, the report found.

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Hospitals 117

STAT

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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Hospitals 119