Private health insurance plans, which cover the majority of people in the U.S., paid higher rates to hospitals compared to public plans such as Medicare and Medicaid, according to a recent report from RAND.

A Los Angeles-based startup, GumGum, has raised $11 million in financing and spun out a new healthcare startup focused on the dental industry, according to TechCrunch.

Fewer hospital CEOs are leaving their jobs, according to a report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas on CEO turnover. During the first four months of 2019, 26 hospital CEOs left their jobs, compared to 35 departures during the same time period in 2018.

Combing through insurance claims and other health data on more than 72 million U.S. residents, a machine learning algorithm was able to quite accurately identify more than 222,000 individuals who have very early stage Alzheimer’s disease.

AI has the potential to disrupt the healthcare industry and improve healthcare outcomes of patients through faster diagnosis and more accurate, targeted treatment. But how AI algorithms are trained needs some improvement, according to Naga Rayapati, founder and CEO/CTO at online marketplace GoGetter, which penned an article for Forbes.

President Trump announced principles to address the issue of surprise billing in healthcare, the White House announced May 9.

The savings that Medicare Advantage plans can bring to the table may have been over-weighted after a recent study revealed seniors who switch from traditional Medicare plans already have lower healthcare costs before they join an MA plan.

As medical devices are increasingly being touched by new AI innovations, the FDA will soon have to grapple with reality of regulating “living things” in a new way, according to a report from Roll Call.

The global excitement around healthcare’s embrace of AI and other developing technologies is not misplaced, but it needs to be tempered by an ongoing watchfulness for misuse.

The FDA is putting an end to a program that allowed medical device companies to keep the public in the dark about reports of harm and malfunction. The program, called alternative summary reporting, was established in 1997 and its data has not been publicly available.