A senior citizen advocacy group is suing the Trump administration for details on how it's going to implement a new policy that prohibits certain legal immigrants from receiving Medicare benefits.
Why it matters: Last year's GOP tax-and-spending law stripped coverage from an estimated 100,000 immigrants covered by Medicare.
Every hospital in North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming is in a highly concentrated market, according to a blog post from Yale's new Health Care Affordability Lab.
Why it matters: As rising health care costs put more financial strain on Americans, "one major and underappreciated factor driving price increases is rising consolidation among U.S. hospitals," the blog post argues.
Two years after the seismic Change Healthcare cyberattack, Congress is advancing a plan to safeguard against the kind of hacks that can expose millions of people's private data and cripple health systems.
Why it matters: The bipartisan plan puts the burden on the government and providers to prevent the kind of breach that reverberates across the entire industry, jeopardizing patient access to needed treatments and costing hospitals billions.
