The Supreme Court late Friday removed one of the final barriers to nationwide enforcement of a controversial federal rule penalizing legal immigrants for using Medicaid and other public benefit programs.

HHS leaders have had harsh words for critics of interoperability and information-blocking proposals in recent weeks, calling industry pushback on the rules hypocritical and an “embarrassment.”

Veterans Affairs Department officials will get a chance to explain why they pushed back end-user training of a new electronic health record system, which was slated to start in early February.

Election campaigns were linked to higher healthcare costs in Taiwan, where researchers found healthcare use and costs rose by 17% to 19% for presidential elections for young adults.