Steven Allen has been named the Deputy Executive Director of the Department of Mental Health, stepping into the role vacated by Matt Armstrong, who retired in November 2016.  

North Mississippi Medical Center-West Point has begun accepting applications from graduating high school seniors in Clay County for two $1,000 medical career scholarships.  

Along with crisp, cool breezes and bright, beautiful flowers, spring months in Mississippi also bring pollen and other allergens that can send many residents rushing to the doctor’s office. Forrest General’s Family Medicine Residency Clinic offers a convenient solution for the entire family including children and infants.

The Hancock County Board of Supervisors on Monday delayed a decision to seek proposals for the potential lease or sale of Hancock Medical Center.

The HHS Office of the Inspector General’s early review of the Quality Payment Program implementation highlighted key points that CMS must get right.

Trump has not made a decision on keeping the IRS chief amid big changes to the agency.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released a mapping tool that allows users to view the prevalence of certain chronic conditions, behaviors and risk factors that have a substantial effect on people’s health for 500 of the nation’s largest cities. The application is part of the 500 Cities Project, a partnership with the CDC Foundation and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.  

The AHA’s Physician Leadership Forum will host a free webinar March 17 on “Preventing Physician Burnout - What Hospital Leaders Can Do to Make a Difference.”  

Telehealth, which is frequently touted as an effective strategy to decrease healthcare spending, may actually be driving up costs, according to a new study by the RAND Corp.

“We cannot support The American Health Care Act in its current form,” hospitals say.

Before the bill has even reached House committees, conservative senators and groups have come out against the plan to replace the Affordable Care Act.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday backed House Republicans’ proposal to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, but emerging conservative opposition threatened to derail the contentious plan.

House GOP leadership faced mounting opposition Tuesday after introducing an Obamacare repeal and replace bill that was rejected by small government

The Affordable Care essentially needs a tune up, not the overhaul Republican lawmakers are pushing, the chief of the American Medical Association told an audience of health care executives in Florida on March 3.

Americans in their 50s and 60s would be especially likely to find coverage unaffordable in a system providing tax credits of $2,000 to $4,000 per year based on age.

The GOP’s proposal reflects its fundamentally different vision of government’s role.

The long-awaited House Republican plan to replace the Affordable Care Act faces likely opposition from hospitals, Democrats and even Republican Senators from states that have expanded Medicaid to all of its lowest-income residents, policy experts sa

There’s plenty for the health-care industry to like in the latest Republican proposal to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which would lower taxes and eliminate rules. There’s also plenty not to like because the plan would funnel less money into helping people pay for insurance and hospital visits.

Leading House Republicans have included a number of transformative and consequential reforms in Obamacare replacement. But those reforms are overshadowed by the bill’s stubborn desire to make health insurance unaffordable for millions of Americans, and trap millions more in poverty.

“He knows Obamacare is a disaster!” Trump tweets.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellMitch McConnellRight revolts on ObamaCare bill AARP rips GOP’s ‘harmful’ healthcare legislation Healthcare bill faces steep climb in Senate MORE (R-Ky.) has only three weeks to unify conservatives and moderates in his conference behind an ObamaCare repeal and replacement bill.

Conservative lawmakers said Tuesday they’ll introduce their own ObamaCare repeal plan, a challenge to the proposal House GOP leaders released Monday.

Facing the start of a conservative revolt over the GOP healthcare plan, Speaker Paul Ryan vowed Tuesday that the ObamaCare replacement bill would pass the House.

President Trump on Tuesday threw his support behind the House’s plan to repeal and replace ObamaCare, launching the administration’s push to sell the proposal to skeptical lawmakers and the public.

The Republican plan to repeal and replace ObamaCare could lead 6 million to 10 million people to lose coverage, according to an analysis from Standard & Poor’s.

“It’s a complicated process, but actually it’s very simple. It’s called: good healthcare,” Trump tells house members in Obamacare meeting pic.twitter.com/rLKXf3kkcV

The GOP bill maintains tax credits to encourage consumers to purchase coverage, but would configure the program much differently than the current law.

What’s in the House GOP’s new scheme to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act

The proposed health-care bill has a different name for penalizing uninsured people.

Though most old and sick people will be worse off under the GOP bill, it might be a boon—real or perceived—for people earning just above the Obamacare subsidy cutoff.

Insurance companies are calling on the Trump administration to rethink a proposal to shorten the open-enrollment period over their fears that it will result in only the sickest individuals signing up for coverage.

HHS Secretary Tom Price has tipped his hand and revealed some potentially controversial stances on his preferred measures for repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act.