Republicans in Congress are under pressure from President Donald Trump to quickly push forward on a bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), according to multiple news sources, but for each comment saying the majority party is close to an agreement, there seems to be another denying it.

In an interview with CNN, HHS Secretary Tom Price, MD, continued to defend Republican alternatives to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), calling the American Health Care Act (AHCA) “a significantly better program than the one we currently have.”

Oncology community professionals are concerned about the ability of their patients to access cancer screening and treatment under the proposed American Health Care Act, according to a survey conducted March 23–24, 2017 at the National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®) 22nd Annual Conference: Improving the Quality, Effectiveness, and Efficiency of Cancer Care™ at the Rosen Shingle Creek in Orlando, Florida.

Insurance companies that are members of America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) made their case to CMS for billions in cost-sharing reduction subsidies under the Affordable Care Act to continue—but left with no promises the administration would maintain funding.

Hundreds of emergency and mobile healthcare professionals, representing emergency medical services (EMS) in almost every U.S. state, will assemble on Capitol Hill to request support from congressional leaders on issues vital to the health and safety of every community in our nation.

The final rule aimed at stabilizing the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance exchanges doesn’t appear to have won the perception battle with insurers debating whether to participate in the marketplace.

Having a checklist for chores or exercise goals help in lining up what needs to be completed and the same should go for safety in hospitals. A recent study, set to be published in August in the Annals of Surgery, found that having a safety checklist program implemented in hospitals in South Carolina reduced post-surgical deaths by 22 percent. 

CMS released the 2018 Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) proposed rule on April 14, promising “transparency, flexibility, program simplification and innovation to transform the Medicare program” in the first IPPS rule under a new CMS and HHS administration.