Hospitals Will Have to Disclose Treatment Costs Upfront
President Trump signed an executive order Monday that calls for upfront disclosure by hospitals of actual prices for common tests and procedures to help keep costs down.
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Insurers to Get High Court Audience on $12B Obamacare Fight
Taking up what could be a key case for the next term, the Supreme Court said Monday it will decide whether the government owes $12 billion to insurance companies that lost money as the health care law overhaul known as the Affordable Care Act.
Read moreCannabis Found Effective in Fighting Drug-Resistant Bacteria
For as long as modern medicine has treated infections with antibiotics, it has been entangled in an arms race against antibiotic resistant bacteria. Now scientists are considering a new weapon against these so-called superbugs: marijuana.
Read moreSpam Case Not Ready for Prime Time, Justices Say
The Supreme Court punted Thursday in a case where a chiropractic office that was faxed an advertisement for the Physicians’ Desk Reference, a staple of most medical offices, brought a class action decrying the message as spam.
Read moreUnion Fights for Retiree Benefits in Sixth Circuit
The United Auto Workers argued Tuesday before the Sixth Circuit for the implementation of minimum health care premium payments by Honeywell International to a group of over 4,700 retirees who claim they were promised lifetime benefits.
Read moreNew Maine Law Forces Insurers Public & Private to Cover Abortions
Maine Governor Janet Mills signed a bill Thursday that requires public and private insurance companies to cover abortion as part of prenatal care.
Read moreHouse Panel Debates Path to Universal Health Care
Rebecca Wood’s daughter was born three months premature, required a feeding tube and has relied on Medicaid waivers for critical treatment most of her life. The patient advocate told lawmakers Wednesday her daughter would not have survived if Wood had not put off her own serious dental procedure for an infection that cost her parts of her jaw.
Read moreAffordable Care Act
The Court of Federal Claims found that the government’s failure to make reimbursement payments to insurers, even after Congress failed to appropriate funds for cost-sharing reduction payments, violated the Affordable Care Act, so Maine Community Health Options is entitled to summary judgment and immediate payment.
Read morePlanned Parenthood, ACLU Sue Over ‘Refusal of Care’ Rule
Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union filed separate federal lawsuits Tuesday to block a rule that would let medical providers refuse or even withhold information about treatment based on so-called “conscience-based” objections.
Read morePatients Claim Health Care Provider Shares Private Info With Tech Companies
A class claims in a Monday lawsuit that one of California’s largest health care providers is secretly sharing patients’ private information to Facebook, Google and other companies.
Read moreCourt Quashes Bid to Prosecute Boris Johnson Over EU Claim
Britain’s High Court has quashed a bid to prosecute Conservative lawmaker Boris Johnson for allegedly lying during the country’s 2016 European Union membership referendum.
Read moreIn Reversal, Biden Opposes Ban on Federal Money for Abortion
After two days of intense criticism, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden reversed course Thursday and declared that he no longer supports a long-standing congressional ban on using federal health care money to pay for abortions.
Read moreSurvey Trumpets Fake News as Major Problem in America
Fake news outstripped racism, climate change and immigration for most Americans polled about problems confronting the country, a Pew survey unveiled Wednesday shows.
Read moreMaine Legislators OK Assisted Suicide; Bill Goes to Governor
The Maine Legislature voted Tuesday to legalize assisted suicide, passing a bill that would allow doctors to prescribe terminally ill people a fatal dose of medication.
Read moreFact Check: Trump Just Makes It Up Against John McCain
President Trump is making up facts about a veterans’ health care program in his latest dig at late Sen. John McCain. He says he’s no fan of McCain, a Vietnam War veteran and tortured prisoner of war, faulting him for failing to pass a program that gave veterans the option to see a private doctor at public expense–though McCain did successfully sponsor such a law.
Read moreDemocrats Curiously Silent About Immigration Policy
Democratic presidential contenders are in a feverish battle to one-up each other with ever-more-ambitious plans to beat back global warming, curb gun violence, offer universal health care coverage, slash student debt and preserve abortion rights. Largely left out of the policy parade is immigration.
Read moreMinnesota Sued Over Restrictive Abortion Laws
Reproductive health care advocates in Minnesota Wednesday filed a sweeping lawsuit challenging several state statutes that restrict a woman’s access to abortions and to care for sexually transmitted diseases.
Read moreTrump Claims Credit for Obama’s Work for Veterans
Boastful on Memorial Day, President Trump and his Veterans Affairs secretary are claiming credit for health care improvements that were under way before they took office.
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