The fiscal year 2019 budget proposal from President Donald Trump’s administration would cut nearly $18 billion in funding to HHS, while relying on repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and turning Medicaid into a state-administered block grant program to reduce healthcare spending by the federal government by $675 billion by 2028.

The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) received a $500 million commitment from the Helen Diller Foundation to help plan and build a new hospital, according to a Feb. 8 release from the university.

President Donald Trump is expected to release a budget proposal Monday, Feb. 12. This move is more of a wish list from the chief executive, because Congress controls federal spending, but the budget can convey priorities and policy ideas.

Measurements taken from projected 3D holographic models were able to match “gold standard” measurements in accuracy, according to a study set to be presented at the ARRS 2018 Annual Meeting.

IQVIA's annual report of the largest parent companies of medical groups has Kaiser Permanente remaining on top, beating the second-ranked system by nearly 10,000 unique physicians.

About 800 unionized registered nurses at the 302-bed Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, have warned they’ll hold a one-day strike on Feb. 27 unless quick progress is made in contract negotiations that have already lasted 17 months.

CVS Health president and CEO Larry Merlo downplayed the threat to its pending $69 billion acquisition of Aetna from the recently announced healthcare partnership between Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway, saying “what that group aspires to is what we're going to deliver.”

The second federal government shutdown of 2018 lasted only six hours, but the budget deal that ended it will have an impact on the healthcare industry for years to come through changes to Medicare payments, the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and repealing one of the most controversial parts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).