Health Care Reform

The effort will focus on staffing, surgical outcomes and patient experience in facilities that are performing increasingly complex procedures and seeing more aging patients.

In the states that didn't expand, almost 20 percent of low-income residents said they skipped getting necessary care in the past year.

Medicare Part B premiums will increase to about 1.1 percent, but some high-income enrollees will see a 7.4 percent increase.

Drugmakers have said that disclosing list prices without additional context would be confusing to patients.

Overall prices are 12 percent higher for monopoly hospitals than for hospitals with four or more competitors.

Federal law will soon ban drug cost 'gag clauses' in commercial and Medicare drug plans.