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.

Nearly four out of five (78 percent) Medicare Advantage (MA) prescription drug plan enrollees didn’t change their plan between 2013 and 2014, which the Kaiser Family Foundation said raises questions about whether seniors have what they need to compare coverage.

As people across the U.S. continue to struggle with opioid addiction and communities face fatal overdoses, the Associated Press and the Center for Public Integrity released a two-part report detailing the many facets of the crisis.