It is in these tenuous conditions that Alaska lawmakers passed the child care legislation. The proposed law expands eligibility for families to get financial assistance for child care, offers tax ...

The Alaska Legislature has adopted a bill that would legalize subscription-based health care in the state. The bill would allow primary care providers to offer care to patients based on a monthly ...

In a case that highlights the political realities of health reform’s growing pains, Alaska is poised to take extreme measures to stabilize its struggling Affordable Care Act marketplace, ...

The Alaska State Medical Board is requesting that the state legislature ban transgender medical treatments for minors due to insufficient safety and efficacy data. The seven-member medical panel ...

A new legal analysis finds a Dunleavy administration executive order to divide the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services contains numerous errors and adds ambiguity to state statute. The ...

Mar. 26—Editor's note: This story was updated Wednesday to add comments from Alaska State Medical Board member Dr. Matt Heilala. The Alaska State Medical Board is asking the Legislature to ban ...

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Alaska Gov. Bill Walker about his concerns with the American Health Care Act. With its remote rural communities, Alaska has some of the highest insurance costs in ...

The home state of a key undecided senator could receive hundreds of millions of dollars under an updated Senate GOP bill to replace ObamaCare. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) has withheld her support ...

The Alaska legislature has passed a bill that would allow physicians to diagnose or provide a prescription for patients either online or over the phone, according to a news release from the bill ...

In 2025, the Alaska Legislature will appropriate tens of millions of dollars for the care of people with an acute mental illness. Without at least an annual report card outlining ...

An Alaska bill making physician apologies and expressions of compassion toward patients regarding the healthcare provider's actions inadmissible in medical malpractice cases has been passed by the ...