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The day-long session will explore whether the state should expand Medicaid to cover the estimated 78,000 residents who don't qualify for Medicaid or for subsidies to help buy insurance on the health marketplace. Also, Alaska officials and Xerox have settled a dispute over the complaints that the company, which set up a payment system for the state, was slow to reimburse doctors and other health providers.
Polls have shown the "yes" side leading in most states with a marijuana-related ballot measure.
In other state hospital news, Georgia's rural hospitals are hopeful about tax credit program, a Massachusetts watchdog agency raises a red flag about Boston Children's planned expansion and a surprise inspection of a Pennsylvania hospital finds shortcomings.
In other news related to head injuries, an analysis of regional insurance claims shows that concussion rates among young boys and girls are on the rise in many states.
Among the possible causes cited by suicide experts is a decline in the use of psychiatric medicines and the rise of cyberbullying. In other public health news, 92 percent of the world is breathing bad air, the Americas are declared free of endemic measles, C. diff is on the rise and a look at a mysterious lymphatic disease.
Police departments have started releasing photos and videos of parents who overdose in front of their children. Some say they're what's needed to finally get people outraged enough to act on the crisis, but others say it's demoralizing and only makes it harder for those who want to get help.
One expert weighs in on that and other questions about flu vaccine science.
The controversial procedure replaces the mother's faulty mitochondria with donor mitochondria to produce a healthy baby while preserving the vast majority of its mother's DNA.
Advocates envision a world in which technology allows office visits to be transcribed in real time or compares patient records to determine a diagnosis. But, in a situation where a glitch could have fatal consequences, moving away from human scribes could be a grave mistake.
Starting next year, Aetna will give an Apple Watch to its employees for free as part of its wellness program and subsidize a “significant portion” of the Apple Watch cost for some large employers and groups.
House leaders came to an agreement late Tuesday night on how to get funds to the water crisis in Flint.
The Food and Drug Administration hasn't updated its recommendations on what is considered healthy since the '90s when low fat content was the main focus of health professionals and sugar wasn't even really on the radar. It will still be years before there's significant movement, but the agency is finally taking steps toward updating it.
More than half of the hematology-oncology assessors who reviewed drugs between 2001 and 2010 went on to work for the biopharmaceutical industry after leaving the agency.
Robert Lanciotti says the test the agency recommends misses nearly 40 percent of Zika infections. He has since been reinstated after filing a whistleblower retaliation claim.
Social media and other digital strategies are at the center of the effort. Also in the news, the House passes a bill to exempt customers of failed insurance co-ops from the health law's coverage mandate, some people shopping for plans get help from brokers and more fallout from insurers leaving the marketplaces.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
A selection of opinions on health care from around the country.
Outlets report on health news from Washington, Ohio, Minnesota, Connecticut, California, New York and Massachusetts.
Jeff Myers tells The Hill, "It seems to me that the exchange products that work best are ones that, rather than just open up a giant network and provide lots of services, really look at, are there services that we can open up and drive that will improve health outcomes and reduce cost?” News outlets also report on Medicaid developments in Kansas and Nebraska.
At first, many officers had to be ordered to attend. But they say they walked away with a better understanding of how to de-escalate situations involving someone with a mental illness. Advocates say there's still more work to do.
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