The Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace is having a wild time lately.

The biggest, most obvious twist? Enhanced premium tax credits expired, to kick off the year. Enrollment dropped by 1.2 million and counting, per Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) data.

There was another important change, though, happening at the same time.

Millions more marketplace enrollees are now eligible to open health savings accounts (HSAs) thanks to a provision of the 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) Act that made all bronze and catastrophic marketplace plans eligible.

Wait, what’s an HSA? HSAs are a type of personal savings account established in 2003 that allows people with high-deductible health plans to save money and collect dividends and interest without paying taxes. They’re similar to a health flexible spending account, or FSA, except all the savings roll over.

Find out more on how they work here.—CC

Hospitals are integrating AI tools into their workflows at breakneck speed. Roughly 66% of physicians said they used AI in 2024, up from just 38% in 2023, according to data from the American Medical Association, the country’s largest lobbying group for physicians and medical students.

But many healthcare workers say they aren’t getting an adequate amount of training when it comes to AI, according to Morning Brew Inc. research: 50% of respondents said they felt their training was lacking, and 64% said they received minimal or no training on AI tools.

Brandon Robinson, managing associate general counsel and chief legal counsel for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, told Healthcare Brew it’s “absolutely a priority” for the Little Rock-based health system to train its workers on AI. But with more than 11,000 employees, “it’s a daunting task.”

See more insights from Chapter 4 of our report here.—MA

Andrew Ferguson, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), directed the agency’s staff to form a new task force focused solely on the healthcare industry, according to a March 20 memo.

“The underlying purpose of the task force is, one, to promote information sharing, and then two, to really take tangible, concrete steps to advance these goals of making healthcare more affordable,” an official from the consumer protection bureau told Healthcare Brew.

The task force will consist of representatives from the FTC’s Bureaus of Competition, Consumer Protection, and Economics, Office of Policy Planning, and Office of Technology. It plans to later expand to include members of the Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Justice, according to the agency’s press release.

“The issues in this space are incredibly complex and really require solutions and thinking that isn’t isolated in one division of the FTC,” the official said.

Learn more about the task force here.—MA

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