Daily Briefing

Tom Price, a member of Congress who worked as an orthopedic surgeon for about two decades, is reportedly being considered for HHS secretary in President-elect Donald Trump's administration. More

A pregnant woman arrived at Johns Hopkins Hospital after being hit by a bullet that also hit the fetus—but both the woman and fetus survived, becoming possibly the first child born at the hospital with gunshot wounds, Tim Prudente reports for The Baltimore Sun. More

"There's now this undeniable rising tide where, in the next year or two, every organization across the country has got to be putting a price transparency strategy and solutions in place," Advisory Board Managing Director Jim Lazarus tells the Daily Briefing. More

There are conflicting reports on whether Republicans would seek to repeal the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansions as part of their efforts to repeal the ACA. More

Hospital industry officials are pressing Congress to pass legislation before the end of the year that would change CMS' Hospital Readmission Reduction Program to account for patients' socioeconomic statuses in its calculations. More

In addition to showing how much Medicare and Medicaid spent on prescription drugs in 2015, the data also show which drugs experienced the largest price increases last year. More

Research has found that fiction—particularly literary fiction—can foster empathy in its readers, Susan Pinker writes for the Wall Street Journal. More

Many of Natividad Medical Center's ED patients were farm workers who knew Mexican indigenous languages, in today's bite-sized hospital and health industry news from California, Michigan, and New Mexico. More