Category: Modern Healthcare

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.

Six states will receive a combined $389 million back from the Internal Revenue Service after a federal judge in Texas said the fee on the states’ Medicaid program was unconstitutional.

A congressional watchdog said the Trump administration needs to step up its management of sign-up seasons for former President Barack Obama’s healthcare law after mixed results last year in the throes of a failed GOP effort to repeal it.

Is Medicaid buy-in the Democratic Party’s coverage-expansion alternative to “Medicare for all”? Advocates are making the policy case to states but have to convince hospitals, which are always wary of potential payment cuts.