Three days of federal mediation failed to produce a deal with hospital administrators.

After many seemingly “routine” doctor’s appointments, many Americans receive their bill and try to make sense of the many ins-and-outs of deductibles, co-pays, reimbursement rules, and paperwork. They face a whirlwind of complexities that have nothing to do with buying healthcare.

Gov. Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas vetoed part of a Medicaid budget bill that that would have ended the subsidized insurance for more than 250,000 people, saving the first-in-the-nation hybrid Medicaid expansion.

State legislators have passed a bill which would define performing an abortion as “unprofessional conduct” by a physician.

Safety standards and oversight need to be overhauled, according to an agency-appointed task force.

The American Medical Association’s internal medicine journal is asking for papers on gun violence and firearm injuries.

People affected by hearing loss are increasingly turning to devices found at electronics stores, rather than going through an audiologist.  

In a report published by JAMA Internal Medicine, it was found that the demographics of patients seen at Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) from 2005 and 2014 have shifted to where the population of young, low-income, uninsured or Medicaid-insured, racial and ethnic minority Americans increased more rapidly than other demographic groups.