• Weekly Line: Earlier this year, public health officials stopped Ebola in its tracks. Can they do it again?

  August 17, 2018
  

  Public health officials from the United States and abroad scored a significant victory in the global fight against Ebola last month, stopping an outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in less than three months.
  

• The best states for health care, ranked

  August 17, 2018
  

  Vermont ranks at the top of WalletHub's Best & Worst States for Health Care.

• NYU School of Medicine to offer full-tuition scholarships for all students

  August 17, 2018
  

  Rafael Rivera, the associate dean for admission and financial aid for NYU School of Medicine, says, "This is going to be a huge game-changer for us, for our students and for our patients," adding, "There's really a moral imperative to reduce the amount of debt people have."

• EpiPen gets its first direct generic competitor

  August 17, 2018
  

  FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb says the agency's "approval of the first generic version of the most-widely prescribed epinephrine auto-injector in the U.S. is part of [its] longstanding commitment to advance access to lower cost, safe, and effective generic alternatives once patents and other exclusivities no longer prevent approval."

• CMS paid at least $434.4M in improper payments to exchange insurers in 2014, OIG estimates

  August 17, 2018
  

  HHS' OIG estimates that CMS in 2014 authorized a total of nearly $434.4 million in improper financial assistance payments for 461,127 exchange policies that did not meet federal requirements, as well as a total of nearly $504.9 million in potentially improper payments for 183,983 exchange policies.

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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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