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.

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.

President Donald Trump's administration has released to deportation officials the personal data for millions of Medicaid enrollees, including their immigration status.

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

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.

The Trump administration on Tuesday rescinded guidance telling health providers who perform abortions in emergency cases that they're protected under federal law, despite any bans that might exist in their states.

The Trump administration is giving the personal data of Medicaid-enrolled immigrants to the Department of Homeland Security, according to the Associated Press. The Department of Homeland Security forced the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services—which is part of Robert F.