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The opioid epidemic has sparked a huge growth in the extremely profitably addiction treatment industry -- but there is little regulation around these centers that are making a lot of money off sick and needy patients. The New York Times offers a deeper look.
Few undocumented residents are able to obtain help for chronic aging issues before their problems become bad enough to send them to the ER, where they are guaranteed emergency care. The financial burden of treating an aging, uninsured population in the coming years will put stress on a system that is already struggling with high costs.
Alex Azar, who has been tapped to replace former Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, has been criticized for his close ties to the pharmaceutical industry.
Hospitals and big pharma are waging a war over the 340B program, which requires pharmaceutical companies to give steep discounts to hospitals and clinics that serve high volumes of low-income patients.
News that Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) will retire after this year sent ripples through the health care industry.
Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) said that getting rid of the health law and tackling Medicaid regulations would be top priorities for the coming year. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton has called on Congress to fully re-fund the CHIP program, saying that the lawmakers' short-term solution isn't good enough.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
A selection of opinions on health care from news outlets around the country.
Media outlets report on news from California, Maryland, Illinois, Ohio, Colorado, Arizona, Minnesota, Texas, Pennsylvania and North Carolina.
Many cannabis dispensaries in the state opened Jan. 1 with longer-than-usual lines, though some owners expressed disappointment with the numbers. Meanwhile, a new study looks at increasing prenatal exposure to marijuana in California. And more "pot churches" are opening.
In other hospital news, some hospitals score high quality marks while one with a tarnished reputation works to regain trust. Outlets also report on developments in Rhode Island, Louisiana and Texas.
Not all books are created equal when it comes to boosting babies' brains. In other public health news: a secret psychiatry experiment; suicide at colleges; excessive screening; the hazards of rushing off to the gym in the new year; Zika; needle-phobia; and much more.
This flu season is expected to be particularly vicious and peak early.
Hospitals are starting to recognize how much their workers can be affected by not only events of mass violence but just the day-to-day duties of working in an high-pressure, high-stakes environment.
Some caution that the huge amount of data could bring more confusion than clarity.
In the past, few providers took advantage of the systems that were put in place to track prescribing practices. Now states want to use them as a key tool to fight the crisis. Media outlets also report on news from New England, Maryland, Minnesota and Illinois.
Technology companies are revolutionizing the health landscape as they vie for a piece of the $3-trillion-a-year pie.
Benefits are terminated when people are jailed, but advocates hope to change that so enrollment is just suspended and can be reinstated more easily when incarceration is finished. Also, news outlets report on Medicaid developments in Mississippi, New Hampshire, D.C., Massachusetts and Ohio.
Hospitals had sought to block $1.6 billion in Trump administration cuts to the program, which lets some hospitals buy drugs at discounted prices.
Veterans Affairs hospitals are limiting the number of patients they take in and cherry-picking cases to avoid complicated ones so that their quality ratings are better, some accuse.
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