As the U.S. Department of Justice works to help nullify the Affordable Care Act, recent comments by President Donald Trump directly contradict his administration’s stance.

The Trump administration’s efforts to roll back regulations that limit radiation levels could take a significant step forward this week.

Medicare Advantage (MA) provider HealthCare Partners Holdings has agreed to pay $270 million to resolve its False Claims Act liability after providing inaccurate information that caused MA plans to receive inflated Medicare payments, the Department of Justice announced this week.

Baylor Scott & White Health and Memorial Hermann Health System announced plans to merge their systems on Monday, Oct. 1.

The U.S. is edging ever closer to a nursing crisis, news magazine The Week has reported, citing staffing shortages, security concerns and insufficient pay among the reasons American RNs are becoming restless.

GE Healthcare still plans to separate into an independent company after General Electric named a new chairman and CEO, according to a report by CNBC.

Immigrants to the U.S. accounted for nearly 13 percent of premiums paid to private insurers in 2014, according to a study published Oct. 1 in Health Affairs. But they’re spending more on those premiums than they’re receiving in benefits, creating a deficit that’s hard to ignore as the country wrestles with immigration policy.

A collaboration between New York-based Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) and the Kuwait National Mammography Screening Program (KNMSP) allowed for the successful implementation of a national mammographic screening program. Program highlights were published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.