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Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports that New York seniors are experiencing reduced prescription coverage and more California patients are being added to the health insurance rolls.
News outlets began 2012 by looking ahead at what is promising to be a busy health care year, especially because of the law.
The Pennsylvania health care system announced it won't be hiring smokers, though the policy won't apply to current employees.
In year-end message, Supreme Court chief justice addresses growing controversy about whether Justices Thomas and Kagan should participate in the health law case.
The extra payments will go to states which have streamlined the enrollment for their Children's Health Insurance Programs.
Republicans have pledged to "repeal and replace" the 2010 overhaul, but they haven't formulated the replacement yet, The Washington Post reports. Meanwhile, others examine prospects of a long-term Medicare fix for doctors' payments.
Romney says an insurance mandate is fundamentally a conservative principle, The Hill reports. Meanwhile, recent news accounts have found past statements by Gingrich praising Romney's health law efforts in Massachusetts.
The long process of negotiation between House and Senate ends as both chambers pass a bill to prevent a cut in Medicare payments, a payroll tax increase and reduced unemployment benefits for two months. But in the new year, Congress must resume talks about a longer-term solution.
Article reveals that psychotropic medications, which alter the brain's chemistry, are often dispensed sloppily, without rigorous or regular review, by general practitioners with little expertise in the area.
News outlets report on state health policy developments in Georgia, California, Missouri, New Jersey, Colorado, Wisconsin, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Oregon.
Medicare spending growth is slowing, even as enrollment rises, The Washington Post reports. Meanwhile, several large Medicare Advantage plans turned a mighty profit in 2011, despite the volatility of the larger economy.
Editors at the journal Science have retracted a study that linked a virus in mice to chronic fatigue syndrome in humans after the Cleveland Clinic said some data came from a contaminated lab.
News outlets report on a variety of hospital issues.
House Republicans question the tax-exempt group's involvement in the sales of health insurance products.
A roundup of hospital news from around the country.
The chairman of the Senate HELP Committee wants the HHS inspector general to investigate whether a $1 million federal grant was misused.
Nurses at one hospital in New York are planning a walkout in January unless they can hammer out an agreement with leaders there. In California in the meantime, nurses who staged a one-day walkout Thursday over a contract dispute and staffing issues will not be allowed back to work today, officials said.
The state's Democratic House members urge HHS to reject the Perry administration request to give Texas insurers more time to meet medical loss ratio standards in the health law.
"Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee are looking into a $433 million contract awarded by the Health and Human Services Department to purchase a yet-to-be-approved smallpox drug" known as ST-426, CQ HealthBeat reports. "The lawmakers raised questions about several issues, including the cost of the contract"; "asked for evidence supporting the assumption that the [FDA] will approve the ST-426, which was one of the requirements of the contract"; and "requested documents describing the actual threat of smallpox, the cost of the contract, and the decision to award it" by January 11, the news service notes (Ethridge, 12/21).
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