Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a reconciliation package with significant changes for Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace as part of what President Donald Trump's calls a "big beautiful" spending vision for his second term in office.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that the part...
The federal government's assault on LGBTQ people and their access to healthcare services continued this week as the Trump administration ignores an injunction, the Supreme Court accepts a case on conversion therapy and researchers sue over the removal of articles from a government website.
Beginning on day one of his second term,...National News
An August 2021 report from The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) pays new hospitals three times more for capital costs than established hospitals under the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Exemption rule established in 1991.
Established hospitals receive...