Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee have asked for U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to explain how the agency plans to settle lawsuits from health insurers over the multi-billion dollar shortfall in the Affordable Care Act’s risk corridor program.

The rising price for EpiPens since the autoinjector device was acquired by Mylan in 2007 can’t come close to the increase in how much Medicare Part D spends on it, according to an analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation.

While today’s physicians normally don’t swear to Apollo like in the original Hippocratic oath, even more modern versions are falling out of fashion, with some medical schools letting students craft their own vow to “do no harm.”

Rising premiums for coverage on the Affordable Care Act’s insurance exchanges have been labeled as a sign of the “death spiral” of the post-ACA market, but a report from the Urban Institute said those plans still offer lower premiums than employer-sponsored insurance.

Kindred Health Care, the largest provider of post-acute care services in the U.S., has paid a $3 million penalty for failing to comply with a corporate integrity agreement (CIA) with HHS’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG).

The investigation of the Northport Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Northport, New York, started with unsafe conditions in their operating rooms, but may have uncovered more widespread issues of fraud and abuse.

The FDA is offering a skilled coder $40,000 to make a mobile app that could help people experiencing an opioid overdose find a potentially life-saving dose of Naloxone. 

The evaluation of models 2-4 of Medicare’s Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) initiative highlighted mixed results on savings and quality in the first 15 months of the program.