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If the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is repealed without being replaced, 18 million people would lose health insurance and non-group market premiums would increase by as much 25 percent in the first year,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

State-by-state, physicians will find differing standards on when they’re required to check prescription drug monitoring databases before prescribing opioids, even as their professional organizations continue to fight mandatory requirements. 

You don’t have to go back too far to find out what U.S. Rep. Tom Price, MD, R-Georgia, may favor as a replacement to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) if he’s confirmed as HHS Secretary under President-elect Donald Trump.

President-elect Donald Trump said his replacement for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will be “insurance for everybody,” potentially putting him at odds with his own party’s healthcare proposals in Congress.