CMS has pushed back the deadline for insurers to file their final 2018 rate requests for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchanges until Sept. 5, giving companies extra time to decide what plans and prices to offer.

Illinois has been ordered to prioritize paying down a $3 billion backlog of overdue Medicaid bills, but those paymentsmay  not get to providers in time to stop some of them from closing their practices.

Orbita, providers of voice-first software, and Libertana Home Health, a California-based health and housing waiver management company, have teamed up to develop a home care system that uses Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant technology.

A study published in Liver Transplantation examined a common tool used in everyday evaluations and its efficiency in predicting patients in need of additional support after a liver transplant.

Paul Levy, the former president and CEO of Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, argues the move towards value-based care is “likely to be an energy-sapping distraction” based on false assumptions about providers' behavior.

It's Never 2 Late®, the leader in providing person-centered digital engagement, content and technology solutions for seniors, announced the expansion of its leadership team with the addition of Matt Miller as Vice President of Product Development. This addition underscores iN2L's commitment to providing personalized engagement solutions that include interactive multimedia, cognitive based gamification and adaptive devices to keep seniors active, connected and engaged.

Cash incentives improve the rate of low-income adults making an initial appointment when they become newly covered by a primary care program, according to a study published in Health Affairs.

An appeals court has sided with hospitals in California by ruling the federal government wrongly approved a 10 percent payment cut for outpatient services in Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program, for an eight-month period beginning in July 2008.