Hospitals Archives

Hospitals Scooping Up Physician Practices Drives Health Care Prices Up

Aditi Sen shares new research that examines whether hospital consolidation increases health care prices.

We explore cascades of care — how a clinician’s desire to be thorough can snowball into a harmful spiral of unnecessary care.

Paula Chatterjee shares new research on the whether a popular discount drug program is reaching the patients it was designed to support.

Ishani Ganguli shares new research about a care intervention that didn’t work and why it still matters.

We talk with a Michigan OB-GYN determined to make sure her hospital is ready if abortion becomes illegal in her state.

Medical respite — a decades-old way of caring for homeless people — is on the rise.

Michael Barnett shares research on why female physicians spend more time working in the electronic health record than their male counterparts.

Amal Trivedi shares research looking at what happens to veterans who get emergency care at VA vs. non-VA hospitals.

We explore health care’s role in the climate crisis and what policies are needed to shrink its carbon footprint.

Katie Keith shares a new study looking at the distance to hospitals for zip codes with high percentages of people of color.