Hennepin County, the most populous county in Minnesota, said it will be forced to hire 92 new employees because of new requirements involving the MNSure health insurance exchange, which the county labels “an ineffective system,” reported the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.

Here are some highlights of healthcare news from Vermont, Oklahoma, Minnesota and Arizona.

Individual members of state medical boards can be sued for antitrust violations thanks to the Supreme Court’s decision in North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners v. Federal Trade Commission, which has now led to at least five such suits against health licensing boards across the country,

Seeking to ease the fears for small and rural practices of being penalized under the new Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), CMS plans to soon release its request for proposals for the $100 million in technical assistance provided for those practices.

Pfizer’s “unanticipated manufacturing delay” involving the recommended treatment for syphilis will pose problems for the growing number of patients with the sexually transmitted infection.

Despite being vetoed by Republican Okla. Gov. Mary Fallin, state legislation to imprison and strip medical licenses from physicians who perform abortions isn’t dead yet.

Here are some highlights of healthcare news in Illinois, Oklahoma, Oregon, New Hampshire, Kansas and Mississippi.

The Senate approved $1.1 billion in funding to federal agencies for anti-Zika virus efforts a day after the House passed its own $622 million bill, setting up negotiations between the two chambers.