The American Medical Association has spoken out against the proposed Anthem-Cigna and Aetna-Humana mergers before, but the organization went further in a new analysis on how the consolidation of major insurers could affect competition. 

According to Kaiser Health News, more and more people are buying gap insurance plans, or “insurance for [your] insurance,” as one customer described it. 

Only some doctors are qualified to prescribe certain drugs that help patients deal with withdrawal symptoms or overdose dangers from opioids. But they might not be treating as many patients as possible to make a dent in the nation’s opioid crisis.

The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) elected its board of directors for the next year at its annual meeting in Orlando.

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.