When a patient shows up in a hospital with chest pain, there’s an established, step-by-step pathway for how physicians, nurses, and other clinicians direct their cardiac care. Unfortunately, the same isn’t true for people grappling with addiction. Core…
Few states have expanded Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) since 2016, but a new trend may accelerate the pace of adoption. Last year, voters in Maine used their state’s citizen-initiated ballot referendum process to pass Medicai…
“Although the repeal of the individual mandate penalty will have negative effects across our health care system, the states can act to keep their health insurance markets stable and affordable by offsetting the expected coverage losses and premium incr…
When Medicare’s open enrollment period begins on Oct. 15, the private insurers that underwrite Medicare Advantage plans—which already lure seniors with things traditional Medicare can’t cover, like eyeglasses, hearing aids, and gym memberships—will be …
The heated debate over how Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh would vote on the Affordable Care Act might not matter. As long as five past defenders of the health care law remain on the nation’s highest court, the odds tilt in favor of it being allo…
The heated debate over how Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh would vote on the Affordable Care Act might not matter. As long as five past defenders of the health care law remain on the nation’s highest court, the odds tilt in favor of it being allo…
A federal judge’s decision to bar Kentucky from imposing a work requirement on Medicaid recipients won’t discourage the Trump administration from considering similar requests from other states, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administr…
A workaround by states to counter Trump administration cuts to Affordable Care Act subsidies has largely succeeded in protecting consumers from higher costs, California and 17 other states said. The assessment came late Monday in a court filing asking …
It has been two months since the president released his road map for lowering drug costs that seems to lead nowhere, and about a month since he predicted the “big drug companies” would announce “voluntary massive” price cuts. Here’s where things stand:…
President Donald Trump handed an influential business advocacy group what should have been a historic lobbying victory when he recently rolled out new rules encouraging small businesses to band together to offer health insurance. Trump, who’s touted th…
