Evergreen Health Cooperative won’t be able to issue or renew plans for 2017 until regulators decide whether it can convert into a for-profit insurer.

CMS is asking for applications to test two different approaches to shared decision-making: one for accountable care organizations (ACOs) and another for care outside of office visits.  

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism is holding a competition to develop technology for wearable devices to measure blood-alcohol levels in real time. The first-place prototype winners will be awarded $200,000, with $100,000 going to second place.

The death of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has looked all but certain since the election of Donald Trump. Debate has focused on how and when, not if, the law would be rolled back, but one Democratic healthcare lobbyist is offering a different scenario.

Weimar Medical Center (WMC) in Texas has been closed since Nov. 26 when it didn’t have enough money to pay its employees. Several weeks later, workers are still waiting on checks.

The FDA has issued a release that details ways to improve access to hearing aids for the 30 million Americans currently suffering from hearing loss. The guidance document will take effect immediately.

The U.S. Senate has approved a bill aimed at speeding up regulatory approval for pharmaceuticals and medical devices, as well as providing extra funding for medical research, the Precision Medicine Initiative, and the cancer “moonshot.”

The number of uninsured people would more than double and the individual insurance market would collapse if the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is repealed through a fast-track process called budget reconciliation.