In 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)’s individual mandate. With the mandate’s penalty now eliminated under President Donald Trump, 20 states are using the earlier ruling as the basis for a new lawsuit seeking to “effectively repeal Obamacare.”

Lack of motivation and increased levels of clinical staff stress could lead to hospitals shutting down during major incidents like a flood or earthquake, according to a study published in Procedia Engineering.

In an interview on CNBC, billionaire Warren Buffett said the healthcare-focused venture formed by his Berkshire Hathaway along with Amazon and JPMorgan has greater aims than trimmed some healthcare costs or cutting out middlemen.

Patients are getting fed up with healthcare organizations who haven’t made their payment processes and communications as convenient as other industries. With Silicon Valley giants like Apple and Amazon eyeing the healthcare space, the time to ditch old, inefficient methods is now, according to Deirdre Ruttle, vice president of strategy at payment networks company InstaMed.

Premiums on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchanges could be in for another double-digit increase if HHS moves ahead with a proposed rule to expand the availability of short-term insurance plans which don’t comply with the ACA.

HHS Secretary Alex Azar is set to meet this week with Idaho Gov. Butch Otter and the state’s insurance director, Dean Cameron, over their recently announced plans to allow insurers to offer coverage that doesn’t follow the Affordable Care Act (ACA), while Iowa is considering a similar move through its state legislature.

Over 30 percent of physicians working at the Cleveland Clinic Health System were found to meet the criteria for overall burnout, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

To help combat opioid addiction and abuse, the American Medical Association (AMA) suggested the Senate consider more than a dozen policies on everything from allowing Medicare to cover methadone in outpatient treatment programs to creating an addiction treatment-centered alternative payment model.