America’s Essential Hospitals has announced a new advocacy and advertising campaign seeking a delay in cuts to Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) payments, which are set to be reduced by $2 billion in the current fiscal year.

The expansion of Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) made hospitals less likely to close, especially in rural markets, according to study published in the January edition of Health Affairs.

In his first appearance before members of Congress as nominee for HHS Secretary, Alex Azar promised to deliver a report on how the agency can limit “gaming” of patents and exclusivity by pharmaceutical companies. But when Azar was working at pharma giant Eli Lilly, the company took advantage of the very methods he’s pledging to fight.

A STAT analysis pointed out a lack of gender diversity among company presentations at this week’s J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. Twenty female CEOs will be presenting corporate updates at the event in San Francisco—fewer than the 22 male presenters named Michael.

Extending the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) will cost the federal government $7.5 billion less than previously estimated because other options have become more expensive after the repeal of the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate. 

In a report touting the contributions physicians make to the U.S. economy, the American Medical Association said physicians were supporting more jobs, tax revenues, wages and generating more economic activity in 2015 than they were three years earlier.

Tenet Healthcare has reached an agreement with Baylor Scott & White Health to restructure their two-year-old joint venture involving five North Texas hospitals.

Minnesota hospitals may be paid anywhere from $6,186 to $46,974 for a knee replacement, raising questions about why the same procedures can have such wildly different prices within the same state.