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The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals said today that it will hear oral arguments in July in the appeal of a district court decision that struck down the entire Affordable Care Act.
The Trump administration has appealed a federal judge’s recent ruling that blocked Medicaid work requirements in Kentucky and Arkansas.
The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations today held the second part of a hearing on the rising cost of insulin, which featured witnesses from the nation’s three insulin manufacturers as well as three pharmacy benefit managers.
The Food and Drug Administration yesterday announced changes to the prescribing information included in outpatient opioid pain medication labels.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is accepting comments through April 25 on a draft report on treatment for acute pain.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has named the AHA’s American Society for Health Care Engineering an ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year.
At the AHA Annual Membership Meeting today, Reps. Donna Shalala, D-Fla., former Health and Human Secretary, and Michael Burgess, R-Texas, ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, discussed health care issues facing the new Congress, particularly reducing the high cost…
Congress must strengthen the Affordable Care Act, rein in the high price of drugs and ease the Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital cuts, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said today at the AHA Annual Membership Meeting.
Addressing the AHA Annual Membership Meeting this morning, Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means, told hospital and health system leaders “the idea ought to be to improve on the Affordable Care Act,” and not sabotage it, as the law led to 20 million more…
“Medicare for All” is a “raw deal” for the American people and taxpayers, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said today during a plenary session at the AHA Annual Membership Meeting.