Medicare Diabetes Prevention: Enrollment Short Of Projections.

After years of research, Medicare agreed to pay for diabetes prevention programming, but few beneficiaries and providers have enrolled.

Prevention benefits at risk.

ACA repeal puts free cancer screenings and other prevention benefits for seniors and many privately insured patients at risk, though political pressure could make paring benefits hard.

What did the media miss in the CBO report?.

Everyone reported the top-line numbers from the analysis of the House Republicans' American Health Care Act, a bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation estimated the bill would drive up the number of uninsured Americans by 24 million over the next decade and reduce the federal deficit by $337 billion.

Can Republicans compromise with each other to pass ACA repeal bill?.

House conservatives want to scale back the bill's coverage while Senate Republicans want to improve it, which would raise the bill's price tag.

Self-employed fear repealing ACA will bring back'job lock'.

Would-be entrepreneurs may hesitate to cut ties with employer-based health coverage with the ACA's insurance protections up in the air.

Obamacare Lite looms as alternative for GOP.

GOP leaders may decide an ACA deal with Dems would save them a lot of trouble, but they'll have a hard time convincing their right wing.

The battle to repeal Obamacare: Winners and losers.

After seven years and many promises, Republican leadership failed to get enough votes to pass legislation that would repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. The American Health Care Act was pulled before a single vote was cast. The move received mixed reactions from many who had a lot at stake under the bill. Here's a quick list of who won and who lost as a result of the failed attempt to repeal Obamacare.

Fate of Medicaid expansion rests with senators from drug-torn states.

Two senators who represent states at the epicenter of the nation's opioid addiction crisis find themselves at the turbulent center of the Republican drive to repeal and replace Obamacare.

'Too much money is going into correctional costs for people with untreated mental illness'.

For nearly 20 years, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Steven Leifman has coordinated the work of state and local agencies in diverting mentally ill people from the jail system and getting them into comprehensive residential and outpatient recovery services. He was a top contender for the new HHS assistant secretary position in charge of mental health and substance abuse policy. In an interview with Modern Healthcare senior reporter Harris Meyer, Leifman described the structural reforms he believes are needed in mental healthcare and what the federal government must do to achieve those improvements. The following is an edited transcript.

GOP senators likely to pass ACA repeal bill because failure is not an option.

The challenge for Senate Republicans is to make their bill less politically toxic than the House version, but that will require tough calls on taxes and spending.

'Willing to take the hits' for speaking out against the GOP repeal bill.

Robert Doherty, the long-time chief lobbyist of the American College of Physicians, has drawn attention for his outspoken criticism of the House Republican legislation to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Doherty is senior vice president for government affairs at the Philadelphia-based ACP, which represents 148,000 internists and internal medical subspecialists. He spoke with Modern Healthcare senior reporter Harris Meyer on May 4, minutes after the House passed the American Health Care Act, or AHCA. He described his organization's objections to the House bill and its plans to lobby the Senate to preserve the ACA's insurance coverage expansions. The following is an edited transcript.

New HHS Secretary Price faces a crushing inbox.

AS HHS secretary, Dr. Tom Price may be torn between orders to repeal the ACA and pressure from insurers to stabilize the marketplace in order to maintain coverage for 20 million people.

GOP anxiety rises as conservatives and moderates split on ACA repeal.

After seven years of promising to repeal and replace the ACA, Republicans have yet to coalesce around a plan, and more party members are facing the consequences of pulling coverage from nearly 20 million Americans.

What insurance market fixes can the GOP cram into an ACA repeal bill?.

Insurers are still nervous about committing to ACA plans in 2018, but they're also quietly optimistic that a GOP 'repeal and delay' bill will include 'replace' provisions to prop up the markets.