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The Congressional Budget Office forecasts that the red ink will start flowing again in 2017, and by 2025, deficits could again top $1 trillion.
The goal, officials say, is for the health care program for the elderly and disabled to pay providers based on quality and frugality. HHS officials say 50 percent of all Medicare pay would be made this way by 2018.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
A selection of opinions on health care from around the country.
The data comes from a 2013 survey by the American Hospital Association. Other stories look at how hospitals are faring under the law's new incentive programs to boost quality and at the vice president's call for renewed focus on patient safety.
Following its slow start in battling the Ebola epidemic in Africa, the World Health Organization unanimously approves a resolution designed to overhaul its capacity to respond to and stop outbreaks and other health emergencies.
As of late last week, 78 cases of the illness had been reported in seven states and Mexico.
News outlets report on the health policy impact of budget blueprints advanced by the governors of California, Georgia and Maryland.
A selection of health policy stories from California, Kansas, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, Iowa, New Hampshire, New Mexico and Florida.
The president is also requesting hundreds of millions of dollars to develop personalized medical treatments. Elsewhere on Capitol Hill, Rep. Ron Kind, D-Wis., pushes to repeal the medical device tax and lawmakers debate the definition of rape.
In the meantime, a "Night Ministry" in Illinois boosts enrollment efforts. Elsewhere, New Hampshire officials are torn over whether a proposed change to the health law's enrollment period could be good or bad for consumers.
Gov. Asa Hutchinson's decision to continue the state's "private option" program while exploring other options opens him to criticism from his party.
This marks the first failure of one of the nonprofit health insurance co-ops created by the health law, which provided $146 million in federal grants and loans.
The administration is making changes to boost privacy protections on the health insurance portal used by millions of Americans, a week after the Associated Press reported that details such as consumers' income and tobacco use were going to private companies with a commercial interest in such data. Meanwhile, a government audit confirms the agency responsible for developing the website did not properly vet contractors.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
A selection of opinions on health care from around the country.
George Health News and The St. Louis Post-Dispatch take a look at how their hospitals rate on new quality metrics put in place by the Affordable Care Act and whether those metrics are meaningful. Meanwhile, Modern Healthcare explores how payment spats between providers and insurers continue despite the move away from fee-for-service systems.
The measles outbreak originated in California at Disneyland and has since been tracked to include 70 infected people in six states.
Federal health officials say nearly one-third of women who might get pregnant are getting opioid painkiller prescriptions such as Vicodin and Oxycontin, even though such prescriptions carry birth defect big risks.
A selection of health policy stories from Maryland, Idaho, Wisconsin, Colorado, Rhode Island and New York.
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