Jordan Rau, Kaiser Health News

The new guidelines discourage regulators from levying fines and aligns with Trump's promise to reduce bureaucracy, regulation and government intervention in business.

Despite the collapse of the latest Senate effort to repeal the ACA, Republicans are still keen on shrinking the amount of Medicaid money Washington sends to states.

Medicare is punishing 2,573 hospitals starting in October by as much as 3 percent a year according to federal records released Wednesday.

Sixty-one percent of the public (up 6 points from June) said they did not like the GOP health care effort, now undergoing a revised push in the Senate.

A subset of Medicare Advantage plans are designed for people who require at least 90 days of skilled services from nursing homes or long-term care institutions.

Several million children won't meet Senate's new highly restrictive definition of "blind and disabled" under new Medicaid guidelines.

Of the facilities with reported violations prior to 2014, 52 percent slid back into dangerous care according to a Kaiser Health News analysis of federal health inspection data.

Out of 1,010 large medical groups that Medicare evaluated under the physician value-based payment modifier, just 14 are getting payment increases this year. But at the same time, only 11 groups will be getting reductions for low quality or high spending.

The bacterial outbreak at a Los Angeles hospital highlights shortcomings in the federal government's efforts to avert the most lethal hospital infections, which are becoming increasingly impervious to treatment.

Medicare is penalizing 721 hospitals with high rates of potentially avoidable mistakes that can harm patients, known as "hospital-acquired conditions." Penalized hospitals will have their Medicare payments reduced by 1 percent over the fiscal year that runs from October 2014 through September 2015.