Shares of Universal Health Services and other large U.S. hospital chains fell sharply Monday. The moves appeared to be in response to a directive Friday by President Trump telling the government to scrutinize Medicaid payments more closely.

Internal memos and emails show that Medicaid officials unsuccessfully sought to block the data transfer, citing legal and ethical concerns.

Top advisers to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ordered the details of millions of Medicaid recipients, including names, addresses and health information, given to the Department of

The Trump administration withdrew a federal directive that required emergency rooms to provide abortion care in an urgent medical crisis. Now hospitals are scrambling to figure out what it means.

In the days since the Trump administration rescinded federal guidance tied to the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, EMTALA, a wave of alarming headlines has swept across social media: “Trump just made it legal for hospitals to let pregnant people die.

President Donald Trump’s proposal to peg American drug costs to prices paid in other countries risks upending Medicaid’s drug rebate program and could hamper beneficiaries’ ability to obtain needed medications,

In 2022, the Biden administration issued the existing directive to hospitals in an effort to preserve abortion access for extreme cases in which women were experiencing medical emergencies and needed an abortion to prevent organ loss, severe hemorrhaging, or other serious complications, the AP reported.