Modern Healthcare Breaking News

As the country heads toward midterm elections and red states look to overturn Obamacare in the courts, Repubilcan senators have introduced a bill to preserve some of the law’s most popular provisions.

Cook County Health & Hospitals System plans to boost spending by 5% next year, to $2.9 billion, while holding the line on taxpayer subsidies at $120 million.

Mission Health is planning to call bonds about a year after they were issued as part of its possible acquisition by HCA, leading to some sizable losses for investors.

The ONC issued a request for information calling for comments on the criteria that should be used in the new EHR Reporting Program, called for by the 21st Century Cures Act.

Cigna shareholders voted to approve the insurer’s proposed $67 billion merger with the No. 1 pharmacy benefit manager, Express Scripts.

Senate leadership quelled a Democratic amendment to protect Obamacare’s pre-existing conditions provisions and navigated Sen. Rand Paul’s move to defund Planned Parenthood for passage of the first HHS appropriations bill in more than a decade.

California emergency departments are starting to see urinary tract infections caused by drug-resistant bacteria, and it may be nearly impossible to identify risk factors that would inform clinicians to use alternative treatments.

Healthcare associations are trying to make their membership prices and structures more attractive by adding cheaper, a la carte membership options.

In a largely procedural decision, Maine’s high court ruled that Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s administration must move forward and implement the state’s voter-mandated Medicaid expansion even if it continues to fight the plan in court.

Community opponents of two pending healthcare mergers need to ask themselves whether antitrust enforcement is really the best approach for lowering healthcare costs.