With large insurers like UnitedHealthcare and Humana announcing their departure from the health insurance marketplaces and some remaining insurers proposing bigger-than-expected increases in premiums, some health experts are predicting the Affordable Care Act is sending the industry into a so-called death spiral. UCLA Center for Health Policy Research Director Gerald Kominski, PhD, would argue otherwise.

As California’s law legalizing physicians aiding in ending the life of the terminally ill goes into effect, Lonny Shavelson, MD, is opening a practice in Berkeley, California, specifically dedicated to serving patients who want to die.

Here’s a roundup of healthcare news from New York, California, North Carolina, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Texas.

The Office of Inspector General's Semiannual Report to Congress has found that the total amount of expected recoveries reported between October 1, 2015 and March 31, 2016, is $2.77 billion, including $555 million in recoveries found through audits and $2.2 billion through investigations.

Physicians will have to fill out a new form to request access to investigational drugs for patients with terminal illnesses, which the Food and Drug Administration said will take 45 minutes to complete.

States can use Medicaid funding for items like condoms and mosquito repellent to prevent the spread of the Zika virus, according to a new letter from CMS.

Measuring interoperability as required by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) calls for a “patient-centric” and flexible strategy, wrote the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA).

California insurance officials have confirmed UnitedHealthcare won’t be offering health coverage of the state’s Covered California marketplace in 2017