• HHS just deleted 20 years' worth of medical guidelines

  July 17, 2018
  

  A spokesperson for HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality says budget cuts led the agency to remove from the internet a database containing nearly 20 years of evidence-backed medical guidelines for thousands of conditions and procedures.

• Hey Alexa, you don't provide great medical advice, providers say

  July 17, 2018
  

  An analysis of tools used by Amazon's Alexa to diagnose symptoms and suggest treatments shows Alexa does not provide patients with adequate medical advice.

• Your food label—decoded

  July 17, 2018
  

  Food label experts shed light on what consumers can ignore and what they should not miss when reviewing a product's nutrition label.

• Doc groups urge CMS to reinstate ACA's risk-adjustment payments

  July 17, 2018
  

  A coalition of six physician groups are urging the Trump administration to reverse its decision to freeze billions of dollars in risk-adjustment payments, and House Ways and Means Committee Chair Kevin Brady (R-Texas) says he is talking with the administration about restoring the payments.

• Why do women freeze their eggs? It might not be why you think.

  July 17, 2018
  

  The stereotype that women who freeze their eggs usually are doing so to focus on their careers might be misguided, according to a study presented this month at the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology's conference in Spain.

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• Trump might stop cost-sharing reduction payments. What would that mean?

  August 7, 2017
  

  President Trump has repeatedly threatened to halt payments that reimburse insurers for reducing out-of-pocket costs for low-income enrollees on the Affordable Care Act's exchanges. Here's what you need to know about the payments and what could happen if Trump halts them.

• Amid uncertainty on health care reform, three insurers announce exchange exits

  August 4, 2017
  

  The insurers say uncertainty surrounding the Affordable Care Act's cost-sharing reduction payments are a reason for their exits from exchange markets in California, Nevada, Utah, Washington, and Wisconsin.

• Insurers attribute proposed 2018 premium increases to ACA uncertainty, KFF finds

  August 10, 2017
  

  Larry Levitt, a senior vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation, says, "In most of the country, the [individual health insurance] market would be stable if not for significant uncertainty about what the ...Trump administration will do."

• US News names 152 'Best Hospitals'

  August 8, 2017
  

  Mayo Clinic tops U.S. News & World Report's "Honor Roll" for the second year in a row.

• ACA repeal has been declared 'dead' countless times. What would really mean it's failed?

  August 1, 2017
  

  The conventional wisdom is that under Senate rules, the GOP's effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act will be officially "dead" if it doesn't pass by the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30. But a former Senate parliamentarian tells American Health Line that things aren't so simple.

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