Diagnosing Alzheimer’s in its early stages is key to providing patients with proper delaying or preventive drugs. A new study, published in Scientific Reports, explains how a machine learning algorithm could be used to predict the onset of the disease.

If payment of cost-sharing reduction subsidies, or CSRs, for insurers offering coverage on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace are terminated, premiums would be 20 percent higher on average in 2018 and federal spending would increase, but the ACA market would remain stable, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

Illinois has selected six insurers for the state’s Medicaid managed care program, down from the 12 which were currently participating.

Tweeting could one day be used by public health officials to predict the spread of influenza in populations. Research, published in EPJ Data Science, conducted at the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, outlined how future public health workers could utilize social media to identify trends of influenza or other health issues.

When it comes to finding waste in their labor costs, healthcare leaders need to sweat the small stuff, according to Chip Newton, senior manager at Deloitte Consulting LLP.

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.