Medicare & Medicaid
Alaskan Senator Lisa Murkowski is worried about effects on Indian health care system if Congress were to accept GOP health plan to replace the ACA.
The pharmaceutical industry could see windfall profits from a little-noticed tweak to the insurance market tucked into the Trump administration's draft executive order on drug prices.
State projects the program will reduce premiums by 20 percent in 2018, and more consumers may have coverage.
In most cases, PCMHs resulted in cost reduction, quality improvement and utilization, although in some areas results were mixed.
Overlapping surgery, when a doctor operates on two patients at same time, has prompted debate in medical community, and in Washington.
Employment in healthcare would be hit especially hard, with 919,000 fewer jobs.
Several million children won't meet Senate's new highly restrictive definition of "blind and disabled" under new Medicaid guidelines.
Republican administration calls 38 percent decline in number of plans proof the Affordable Care Act is failing.
Only 7.5 percent of the more than 1.8 million COPD patients analyzed were receiving any form of PAP therapy.
The provision would amend an obscure Medicaid funding rule that limits the number of beds for mental illness but health groups say its no reason to celebrate.