President Donald Trump’s selection to run HHS, US. Rep. Tom Price, MD, R-Georgia, dealt with Democrats’ accusations of ducking policy questions while criticizing the Affordable Care Act (ACA), mandatory CMS programs and meaningful use of electronic health records in the second hearing on his nomination.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham has received a five-year, $16.6 million renewal grant from the National Cancer Institute for the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center, Morehouse School of Medicine and Tuskegee University partnership to address cancer disparities among African-Americans.

On the first day of his presidency, Donald Trump signed an executive order suggesting federal agencies offer as many exemptions as possible to the Affordable Care Act (ACA)’s individual mandate.

A surgeon from Loyola Medicine has improved the 2016 guidelines for preventing surgical site infections (SSI) for the 300,000 patients in the United States affected each year.

While plenty of industry attention has been paid to President Donald Trump’s pick to run HHS, Georgia Rep. Tom Price, MD, another politician from the state will also have an impact on healthcare as Trump’s Secretary of Agriculture.

While the individual mandate would be eliminated under the current plans to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a separate idea to keep more people in the risk pool has emerged: auto-enrollment in a “bare-bones” health plan. 

Replacing the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Medicare reform, malpractice lawsuits and differing definitions of “coverage” versus “access” were all discussed in the first Senate hearing of President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to run HHS, U.S. Rep. Tom Price, MD, R-Georgia.

If the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is repealed without being replaced, 18 million people would lose health insurance and non-group market premiums would increase by as much 25 percent in the first year, according to a Congressional Budget Office (COB) analysis.