• Weekly Line: The stem cell industry is booming—and trying to regulate it is 'like playing whack-a-mole'

  June 14, 2019
  

  Across the United States, hundreds of clinics are offering stem-cell therapy treatments for everything from joint pain to more serious diseases like Parkinson's and diabetes. 

• The Trump admin just finalized changes for employer-sponsored health plans. Here's what you need to know.

  June 14, 2019
  

  The Trump administration on Thursday finalized a rule that will allow U.S. workers to use employer-funded health reimbursement arrangements to purchase private health coverage.

• HHS OIG: Elder abuse often goes unreported in nursing facilities

  June 14, 2019
  

  Nursing facilities often fail to report serious cases of potential abuse and neglect of Medicare beneficiaries, according to two new reports from HHS' Office of Inspector General.

• CMS OKs Washington's 'subscription' payment model for hepatitis C drugs

  June 14, 2019
  

  CMS on Wednesday approved Washington's plan to negotiate value-based drug agreements with the makers of hepatitis C treatments under a subscription-like model.

• This doctor's dying wish: Teach his peers to talk about death

  June 14, 2019
  

  When Ron Naito, who had been an internist for nearly 40 years, saw the results of his blood test last August, he knew he had terminal cancer—yet none of his providers knew how to break the news.

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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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