Maryland’s Health Enterprise Zone Initiative aims to attract primary care providers to underserved communities and reduce emergency department visits, health care costs, and hospital admissions while improving health care access and promoting healthy behaviors.

American Health Line rounds up the latest health care news in the states.

The Trump administration this week announced new efforts to combat the U.S. opioid epidemic, as President Trump signed into law a sweeping, bipartisan bill to address opioid misuse.

HHS' Health Resources and Services Administration is awarding $293 million in funds to programs that provide financial assistance to primary care clinicians and students who plan to work in underserved communities.

The number of U.S. residents enrolled in Medicaid managed care plan has grown to more than 54 million, but experts say the federal and state governments have not been properly monitoring the plans.

More than a dozen health care organizations are seeking to block the Trump administration's rule expanding short-term health plans, but the Department of Justice argues that such groups do not have standing to file the suit.

A few health care providers say they support some provisions of CMS' proposed rule to overhaul the Medicare Shared Savings Program, but many providers are voicing concerns.

Health insurance is intended to protect patients from high health care costs—but it does not always do so, according to a new survey of 1,495 seriously ill adults and caregivers.

Time's inaugural Health Care 50 list recognizes the industry's most influential movers and shakers—including FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb and other policymakers.

U.S. fertility rates are falling, and new research suggests hospitals are responding by cutting obstetrician units, particularly those in rural areas.