Seeking to ease the fears for small and rural practices of being penalized under the new Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), CMS plans to soon release its request for proposals for the $100 million in technical assistance provided for those practices.

Pfizer’s “unanticipated manufacturing delay” involving the recommended treatment for syphilis will pose problems for the growing number of patients with the sexually transmitted infection.

Despite being vetoed by Republican Okla. Gov. Mary Fallin, state legislation to imprison and strip medical licenses from physicians who perform abortions isn’t dead yet.

Here are some highlights of healthcare news in Illinois, Oklahoma, Oregon, New Hampshire, Kansas and Mississippi.

The Senate approved $1.1 billion in funding to federal agencies for anti-Zika virus efforts a day after the House passed its own $622 million bill, setting up negotiations between the two chambers.

A judge has granted United Healthcare’s motion to partially dismiss a participant's claim to recover benefits under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).

John Hopkins University School of Medicine announced it will no longer use live pigs to train surgical students, leaving the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga as the only medical school in the U.S. or Canada to allow the practice.

New legislation introduced in the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee contains several changes for Medicare policies most affecting hospitals, including allowing “mid-build” off-campus outpatient facilities to be reimbursed at current rates under the Medicare outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS).