The outbreak at a California prison — described by inmates to STAT — show how a piecemeal response and prison conditions have fueled the virus' spread. More
The COVID-19 patient, from West Seattle, has insurance and so isn't on the hook for the vast majority of the charge. But the gold-plated cost highlights one reason why American health care is so hard to reform. More
TeamHealth, a medical staffing firm owned by private-equity giant Blackstone, charges multiples more than the cost of ER care. All the money left over after covering costs goes to the company, not the doctors who treated the patients. More
The critical questions the Stanford professor is raising about Covid-19 have gotten lost amid partisan bickering, write Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer.
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America has failed the Covid-19 test, and it’s the accumulated result of policy and market decisions. More
Twenty-six drug manufacturers were sued on Wednesday by the attorneys general of most U.S. states and several territories, which accused them of conspiring to reduce competition and drive up generic drug prices. More
Dozens of top recipients of government aid have laid off, furloughed or cut the pay of tens of thousands of employees. More
Recent analyses by multiple think tanks indicate that tens of millions of Americans could lose their employer-sponsored health coverage. More
Deploying these corrosive, inhalable chemicals could harm people in several ways: exposing more people to the virus, compromising the body’s ability to fight off the infection and even causing mild infections to become more severe illnesses. More
Rural Oklahoma communities are desperate to protect their vulnerable hospitals and hand the reins to management companies that say they’re turnaround experts. Instead some companies failed the hospitals, bled them dry and expedited their demise. More
In the past two years, the Mayo Clinic has provided de-identified patient data to 16 digital companies eager to create health AI products and services. More
Twenty minutes after leaving his job at a Brooklyn hospital on Saturday night, 32-year-old Rayne Valentine was lying in the fetal position on the sidewalk. More
A Bellingham, Wash., emergency physician is suing PeaceHealth and TeamHealth, claiming he was wrongfully terminated for publicly criticizing his hospital's COVID-19 response. More
Watchdog groups want President Trump's new coronavirus vaccine czar to disclose all of his ties to drug companies. More
Across Texas, a growing number of poor, unemployed or unsuspecting patients are being sued for uncollected medical debt in a trend that some see as predatory. More
New details emerge in a lawsuit asserting that chains including CVS, Rite Aid and Walgreens sold millions of pills in small towns but rarely flagged suspicious orders to authorities. More
Critics say the government deserves more credit for tens of millions in public money spent to develop the coronavirus treatment. More
During this unprecedented health crisis, what will it take for hospitals to put aside their rivalries and work together? Shannon Brownlee and Vikas Saini discuss in the latest edition of "Lown Hospitals Q&A." More
Twenty large chains received more than $5 billion in federal grants even while sitting on more than $100 billion in cash. More
A dad in Denver tried to do everything right when COVID symptoms surfaced. Still, he ended up with a huge bill from an insurer that had said it waived cost sharing for coronavirus treatment. More