John Hopkins University School of Medicine announced it will no longer use live pigs to train surgical students, leaving the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga as the only medical school in the U.S. or Canada to allow the practice.

New legislation introduced in the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee contains several changes for Medicare policies most affecting hospitals, including allowing “mid-build” off-campus outpatient facilities to be reimbursed at current rates under the Medicare outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS).

Susannah Fox, the chief technology officer of the Department of Health and Human Services, recently shared her efforts and advice on encouraging innovation in the healthcare space.

A lawsuit against HHS from the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) claims the current regulations allow insurers to underpay for emergency services when the hospital is out-of-network.

Legislation waiting for the signature of Vermont’s governor would make the state the first to require pharmaceutical manufacturers to justify raising drug prices.

The two states have enacted legislation adopting the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact and another three may soon be joining.

Though 28.6 million Americans remained uninsured in 2015, the number has decreased since the broadest provisions of the Affordable Care Act went into effect. In 2013, the total number of uninsured stood at 44.8 million people.

Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Edith Ramirez criticized the growing number of hospital mergers in a May 13 speech, according to The Washington Post.