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Concerns for those coordinating patient care in the programs include whether or not to risk penalties when they offer services that could result in a financial loss -- like homebound health care. Elsewhere, Medicare data reveals spending habits in Minnesota, and presidential-hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders makes a "Medicare-for-all" proposal a part of his campaign.
Personal information on as many as 4 million current and former federal employees may have been compromised in the latest cyberattack, believed to have been carried out by hackers based in China. An earlier government computer break-in was linked to attacks on insurer Anthem Inc. and health care services provider Premera Blue Cross.
Meanwhile, an Accenture survey of patients reveals that health insurance customers are willing to accept narrower networks of providers for better control over their medical information.
The drugs include several to treat hepatitis C and breast cancer. Elsewhere, the Food and Drug Administration is speeding new cholesterol drugs to trial, a closer look at kids drugs in the "Cures" bill and painkiller abuse still worries some officials, despite efforts to stem their abuse.
News outlets examine the central issues involved in the Supreme Court's upcoming ruling in this health law challenge. The decision will determine whether millions of Americans who use the federal online insurance marketplace are eligible to use federal subsidies for their coverage.
Meanwhile, Hawaii announces it will shut down its state-based health insurance exchange and transition enrollees to healthcare.gov, the federal exchange.
The measure, which had passed the Republican Senate by a wide margin, was designed to help low-income residents without insurance and hospitals in the state, which face high costs from uninsured patients and an expected cut in federal funding.
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News outlets report on health issues from California, Kansas, Missouri, Oregon, Arizona, Florida, Colorado, Illinois, Maryland and Massachusetts.
A provision of the law requires doctors to tell patients that drug-induced abortions are reversible, which the group says "writes junk science into law." In Texas, state lawmakers adjourn after delivering mixed results for anti-abortion advocates. Elsewhere, GOP presidential-hopeful Scott Walker's comments on abortion and ultrasounds are scrutinized, and Iowa lawmakers pass a bill that requires providers to offer women seeking abortions an ultrasound image of their fetus.
In other hospital news: A N.C. hospital closes down. In Ohio, a children's hospital gets $10 million to study genomics, which examines tailored genetic treatments for diseases. And protesters are arrested at a Chicago trauma center.
A Florida Republican's attempts to reform the VA might have repercussions for other federal workers. Meanwhile, a Massachusetts congressman and former Marine Corps officer is using his own experience with the VA as a guide.
The drugs in question include costly and revolutionary drugs to treat cancer and other intractable diseases, Politico reports. In other pharmaceutical news, CMS allows drug and medical device companies access to Medicare data, and a new HPV-vaccine shows greater cancer protection.
A final rule published Thursday attempts to strike a balance between maintaining the program's demands on participating health providers while making sure they continue to participate.
The Republican Study Group plan would repeal the existing health law and replace its subsidies for low- and middle-income Americans with tax breaks, among other changes. However, GOP lawmakers are divided about how to proceed if the Supreme Court strikes down the health law's subsidies, which are a target of the pending challenge in King V. Burwell.
KHN examines the growing pains being experienced in certain states that are running their own online insurance marketplaces. Meanwhile, the Seattle Times offers an update in action from Washington.
With a decision expected in just a few days from the high court, many wonder why the Obama administration has not offered a backup plan, even as HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell warns that the number of uninsured could spike if the subsidies are struck down. Delaware joins Pennsylvania, however, in moving to save the health coverage subsidies if they are ruled out.
Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell says state regulators can lower the proposed increases. Insurers, in the meantime, are defending their requested premium cost increases in Minnesota, Ohio and New Hampshire. In Washington state, however, health coverage prices are dropping for some.
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