Hospitals, physicians and health insurers are hoping the Supreme Court rules in favor of the defendant in the King v. Burwell case, NPR reports.

With the Supreme Court hearing oral arguments in the King v. Burwell case on March 4, the Washington Post reports the case is the biggest challenge to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in three years.

The federal government made mistakes in sending tax information to 800,000 people who received subsidies to help pay for their health insurance, the Associated Press reports.

A former claims director filed a lawsuit against HCA Holdings alleging the company performed unnecessary cardiology procedures and submitted false claims, the Wall Street Journal reports.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services made changes to outpatient rates and ambulatory surgical center payments for 2015, Healthcare Finance reports.

The Department of Health and Human Services revealed that health plans without hospital benefits do not qualify as satisfying the minimum value requirement, Kaiser Health News reports.

A judge in Chicago upheld a government lawsuit against IPC The Hospitalist, a firm that employs physicians and acute-care specialists in 27 states, Bloomberg reports.

By some estimates, healthcare is only responsible for 10 percent of the factors related to longevity; the rest is dependent on genetics, socioeconomic circumstances and healthy habits. That means care alone is inadequate, and public policy should change to reflect that reality, a health policy expert contends.