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Inside UnitedHealth's doctor empire STAT

WEBThis is the first in a periodic series about how UnitedHealth Group wields its unrivaled physician empire to boost its profits and expand its influence. UnitedHealth …

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It’s time to change the definition of ‘health’

WEBThe WHO defines health as a state of “complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”. The Centers for Disease …

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Kamala Harris healthcare positions are more liberal than Biden's

WEBPresident Biden is backing Vice President Kamala Harris to take the Democratic presidential nomination, he announced Sunday. She's taken more liberal …

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Reinventing health care in 2023 STAT

WEBDo the math and it’s easy to see that realigning health care incentives in the U.S. is inevitable. The average family insurance premium was $6,348 in 2000. By 2020 …

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Hospital at home shows how to bring innovation to health care

WEBA s a health care economist who studies innovation, and as a management consultant who helps health systems and insurers adopt new technologies, we have had …

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A look at Kamala Harris' mother, a noted breast cancer researcher

WEBA s Vice President Kamala Harris emerges as the likely Democratic candidate in the U.S. presidential race, her background on health care issues ranging …

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Confronting a legacy of scarcity in U.S. funding for public health

WEBThis overall decrease in funding for public health is emblematic of an American willingness to pay more later than invest upfront — of the 18% of the federal …

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STAT health tech: Stories on AI, new medical devices and more

WEBBoston Scientific to buy vascular device maker for $1.16 billion. Telehealth, digital healthcare, virtual medicine, medical AI: Stay up to date with the latest health tech …

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The pandemic has helped engage people with their health STAT

WEBA surprising pandemic side effect: People are more engaged with their health. A bout a month ago, one of our patients, a man in his mid-40s, came to the clinic …

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How the LGBTQ+ community can improve health care for …

WEBLong Covid and monkeypox are very different diseases from HIV, but the lessons of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, many of them learned through suffering and death, …

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Health care’s high rollers: As the pandemic raged, CEOs

WEBHealth care CEOs made an average of $15.3 million last year, while the median was around $7 million. Several inordinately large pay packages skewed the …

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Digital health is overlooking its biggest opportunity for disruption

WEBElectronic health records for patient information that are really designed to help providers’ employers get paid; Picture archiving and communication systems which …

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Public health needs fewer medical doctors and more DrPHs

WEBNearly two-thirds of state public health officers, who ultimately oversee each state’s Covid-19 response, are medical doctors. The nation’s top public health officer, …

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The 39 best health and science books to read this summer

WEBS ummer is officially here, and so is STAT’s annual book list, chock full of great health, medicine, and science reads to dive into on vacation or during a relaxing …

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To fix U.S. public health, physicians need to take a backseat

WEBFixing U.S. public health will require a health-systems revolution — and for physicians to take a backseat. A classic warning in public health goes like this: “A …

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Microsoft global outage forces hospitals to cancel appointments

WEBOn Thursday, a widespread outage to Microsoft systems took down computers in health systems around the globe, leading many to cancel non-urgent …

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Kamala Harris' health care views win backing from progressives

WEBHarris was the first vice president to visit an abortion provider during her time in office. Unlike Biden, who expressed anti-abortion views as a senator, Harris has been …

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Sanford Health to acquire Marshfield Clinic STAT

WEBThe $7 billion, 45-hospital system plans to absorb Marshfield Clinic Health System, a $3 billion system of 11 hospitals across Wisconsin and northern Michigan. …

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How insurers can use medical codes to profit from Medicare …

WEBInsurers like UnitedHealth are profiting off of the Medicare Advantage system, and it's causing problems for both doctors and patients. Watch to learn more.

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Ascension sells hospitals to improve finances STAT

WEBAscension has lost almost $4 billion on operations from fiscal 2020 through fiscal 2023, triggering deals to offload almost 30 hospitals. Just last week, Ascension …

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Health websites are notoriously misleading. So we rated their

WEBOf all the sites with red ratings, 37% publish false or unfounded health claims. These sites accounted for more than 49 million engagements (shares, likes, comments, …

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