HHS has estimated 13.8 million people will purchase coverage on Affordable Care Act (ACA) insurance exchanges during the next open enrollment period.

The sharp increase in opioid abuse and the resulting deaths hasn’t led to a strong response from primary care physicians, even though they could recognize problems in patients earlier.

The top trade group representing long-term care facilities is suing CMS for its new rule banning mandatory arbitration agreements in cases of patient harm.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has successfully blocked the merger of Pennsylvania’s Pinnacle Health System and Penn State Hershey Medical Center as the two nixed their consolidation plan after the courts sided with the FTC.

Drug manufacturers would have to justify price increases over 10 percent, along with disclosing research and development costs, under new legislation which the sponsors admitted is only the first step in reforming the pharmaceutical industry.

Part of Donald Trump’s plan to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is to allow insurers to sell across state lines in order to increase competition. One problem: States can already enable them to do so, but insurers don’t seem interested.

HHS has released the highly anticipated final rule, nearly 2,400 pages long, implementing the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) to overhaul Medicare reimbursement, with the agency saying significant changes were made from the proposed rule.

Four regional medical center groups will receive $5.5 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to begin implementation of the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) Cohort program.