Supplies of critical medical products in the Strategic National Stockpile are still well below federal targets more than 18 months after the coronavirus first emerged in the United States, according to internal data obtained by POLITICO. The federal government has built up the stockpile significantly over the last year. There are more than 35 times […]

The nation’s hospitals and health systems continued to see gains across key metrics in May compared to dramatic losses experienced in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Volumes and margins both increased compared to 2020 levels, but remain down compared to 2019. Total expenses and revenues, however, rose above both pandemic and pre-pandemic performance. […]

Hospital mergers and acquisitions are often imbued with the promise that they will transform healthcare. But executives spend less time on the process and consequences of unwinding if the deal sours. Several notable hospital transactions have fallen apart over the past year, as the acquired hospital or system claims that expectations weren’t met, cultures clashed, […]

Hospitals started the year with new requirements to post information they had long sought to obscure: the actual prices negotiated with insurers and the discounts they offer their cash-paying customers. The change is part of a larger push by the Trump administration to use transparency to curtail prices and create better-informed consumers. Yet there is […]