• Young adults are most likely to be uninsured, CDC data show

  November 19, 2018
  

  CDC says about 28.5 million U.S. residents—or 8.8% of population—were uninsured during the first six months of 2018, marking no "significant change" from the previous year.

• Pfizer to resume price increases in 2019

  November 19, 2018
  

  Pfizer says it plans to increase the list prices of 41 of its medical treatments in January, with price increases ranging from 3% to 9%.

• Why all adults should be screened for unhealthy drinking (and just what 'unhealthy' means)

  November 19, 2018
  

  The United States Preventive Services Task Force has updated its recommendations on alcohol screening, saying primary care providers should routinely screen adults for unhealthy alcohol use.

• Gawande: Why doctors 'viscerally, volubly hate' their EHRs

  November 19, 2018
  

  Electronic health records are supposed to make doctors' workdays easier, but instead, they have reached "a point where people in the medical profession actively, viscerally, volubly hate their computers," Atul Gawande writes in the New Yorker.

• DOJ reaches proposed settlement with Atrium over anticompetitive insurer contracts

  November 19, 2018
  

  The Department of Justice says it has reached a proposed settlement with Atrium Health that would prohibit the health system from using anticompetitive clauses in its contracts with insurers.

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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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