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Better digital systems are to be discussed at national cabinet, while the AMA will call for stronger safeguards to protect patient data

The public health emergency created an array of health flexibilities, impacting everything from Medicaid to telehealth coverage.

WASHINGTON — When Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., meets President Joe Biden on Wednesday to discuss the debt limit, there are some structural advantages in favor of emerging from the fight this summer without tanking financial markets that didn’t exist in 2011, a similar moment in U.S. political history.

Telehealth use among Medicare beneficiaries grew from less than 1% pre-pandemic to more than 32% in April 2020

Kevin McCarthy reportedly promised many things to Republican hardliners en route to clinching his job as speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. One of them was a “balanced budget” in 10 years.

Health plans will be allowed to pocket hundreds of millions of dollars in overcharges for audits before 2018

Among the many concessions Kevin McCarthy agreed to in order to become speaker of the House is one that would give the so-called Fair Tax Act a full hearing on Capitol Hill. To describe the bill as radical would be an understatement. Not only would it abolish the Internal Revenue…

The government's new urgent care clinics are designed to ease pressure on hospital emergency departments but doctors have cast doubt on whether they will.

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration will send its budget for the next fiscal year up to Capitol Hill on March 9, according to a memo from top White House aides.