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The insurers respond to Medicare's announcement of a slight decline in payment rates for Advantage plans. Meanwhile, Tenet recorded higher admissions and revenue as newly insured patients sought treatment.
The Senate Finance Committee chairman is readying a "short-term" proposal to help those who could lose subsidies if the Supreme Court strikes them down in a challenge to the health law. Elsewhere on Capitol Hill, some push to tie funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program to a Medicare doctor pay fix, and changes are in store for the top leadership at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Although state-run exchanges in California and New York led the nation in enrolling consumers in health coverage in 2014, that was not the case this year, reports Bloomberg News. Other stories look at enrollment tallies in Florida, Massachusetts, Minnesota and Connecticut.
Since the health law took effect, 10.8 million more people are covered by the federal-state insurance program for low-income residents. Meanwhile, Utah's hospitals offer to pay for the state's share of Medicaid expansion.
News outlets examine various arguments that could factor into the Supreme Court's consideration of a pending challenge to the health law.
A nationwide Gallup survey found the nation's uninsured rate dropped in 2014, with those states that fully implemented the health law leading the decline in adults without coverage.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
A selection of opinions on health care from around the country.
A selection of health policy stories from California, New York, Virginia, Connecticut, Florida, Pennsylvania and North Carolina.
More services are being delivered in clinics, at home or in doctors' offices. Hospitals are being forced to cut back their beds, and some face the prospect of closing down. However, children's hospitals appear to be doing fine.
In 1980, 1.4 million jobs in health care paid a middle class wage: $40,000 to $80,000 a year in today’s money. Now, the figure is 4.5 million, according to The New York Times. But for home health care workers, wages still lag, USA Today reports.
The ratings of nearly a third of the nation’s nursing homes were lowered on Friday, as federal officials toughened scoring as a result of criticism that the ratings were often inflated. Federal officials said they hoped the changes would make it easier for consumers to compare facilities.
The New York Times reports that at a closed-door meeting in Iowa, Walker -- who is said to be considering a run at the presidency -- highlighted his support for a “personhood amendment,” which defines life as beginning at conception.
Federal officials are also finalizing new instructions on how to sterilize the medical instruments responsible for spreading the drug-resistant pathogens.
The move aims to streamline regulation for food, which now falls under the purview of more than a dozen government agencies. Elsewhere, The Wall Street Journal offers five things to know about new federal food guidelines.
Officials said the rate proposal would trim payments an average of 0.95 percent for 2016 but most insurers would see a revenue increase as a result of billing for more intensive services.
A proposal to accept federal money to expand the health program in Wyoming dies in the state House of Representatives, as it already had in the Senate. In Kansas, the lawmaker overseeing the committee with jurisdiction over the issue declines to hold hearings. Medicaid also makes news in Ohio, Georgia and Illinois.
Open enrollment for 2016 plans will start Nov. 1, 2015 and end Jan. 31, 2016, a three-week shift from the 2015 enrollment period, according to new regulations issued Friday. Other rules laid out new prohibitions on plans that don't cover hospital care and delayed a provision affecting small businesses.
Between 3 million and 6 million households that face tax penalties for not having health insurance in 2014 will have 45 extra days this year to get coverage and avoid the penalty for 2015.
A healthcare.gov glitch has officials urging those who got bad tax information regarding health insurance subsidies to wait to file their taxes until they get the correct guidance. Those who have already filed will likely have to submit amended returns.
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