Congestive heart failure within the last year can automatically qualify a Medicaid beneficiary as medically frail enough to be exempted from meeting work requirements but some other conditions will ...

National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya is inviting prospective participants in a new vaccine injury clinic to contact the agency as it finalizes protocol ahead of its upcoming launch, ...

Pennsylvania’s health department issued an alert Monday (Oct. 19) on rising cases of measles in pregnancy and congenital measles, saying infections in infants who caught the virus from their mothers ...

Seniors are estimated to spend significantly more out-of-pocket annually on certain oncology and immunotherapy drugs under the “One Big Beautiful Bill” Act provision blocking all types of orphan drugs ...

Glucose monitoring device company Dexcom is trying to quell a firestorm on social media after telling patients to leave the app unless they agree to the company’s new terms that adjust provisions on ...

Congress has so far rejected many of President Donald Trump’s proposed cuts to federal health agencies and programs, but a new report warns steep workforce losses and other disruptions across HHS have ...

The deadline for state Medicaid agencies to finalize their decision on whether to participate in the Trump administration’s model testing the ability of "most favored nation” pricing to bring down the ...

Health care for women during and after menopause was in the spotlight this week with a Senate Special Committee on Aging hearing on the topic and an FDA workshop on testosterone therapy, which is ...

Ranking Senate Finance Committee Democrat Ron Wyden (OR) blasted the administration for draining the $2 billion Medicare Improvement Fund by sending one-time $90 payments, to nearly 21 million seniors ...

The administration said Friday (Oct. 16) it completed a review of recertification applications from five of the existing Independent Dispute Resolution (IDR) entities and determined that they meet ...

HHS Tuesday (Oct. 20) unveiled a national kidney care plan focused on disease prevention, improving dialysis care and strengthening the transplant system.