• AHL feature: Rx drug prices are causing ‘financial toxicity.’ Here’s how to address it.

  October 19, 2017
  

  Prescription drug prices continue to rise placing an increasing financial burden on patients and families—but industry experts outline three key steps providers can take to ease out-of-pocket costs for patients and reduce uncompensated care costs.

• States file emergency motion to reinstate CSR payments

  October 19, 2017
  

  Nearly 20 attorneys generals in the motion say a temporary restraining order "is necessary by 4:00 p.m. on Oct. 19, 2017, to prevent immediate and irreparable harm to the … [s]tates and the millions of Americans who benefit from affordable health care coverage under the [Affordable Care Act]."

• VA proposes bill to overhaul Veterans Choice Program

  October 19, 2017
  

  The draft bill, called the Veterans Coordinated Access & Rewarding Experiences (CARE) Act, aims to improve health care quality and access for veterans by building on Veterans Affairs' existing community care programs and offering veterans greater flexibility to choose where they receive care.

• At hearing, sens. call for action to curb rising Rx drug prices

  October 19, 2017
  

  Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) says, "We have to make more progress to get at the root of the problem facing patients, which is the high prices set by drug manufacturers."

• Anthem to launch PBM in a partnership with CVS Health

  October 19, 2017
  

  Anthem says it has signed a five-year contract to partner with CVS Health to launch its own pharmacy-benefit manager after its contract with Express Scripts expires at the end of 2019.

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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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