CMS is offering a more modest 0.25 percent increase in payment rates for Medicare Advantage (MA) insurers, one year after a 0.85 percent hike, in its proposed MA update for 2018. 

John Holland, a former senior vice president for Tenet Healthcare’s southern region, has been charged with allegedly taking part in a scheme to pay bribes in exchange for patient referrals and resulting in $400 million in fraudulent Medicaid billings. 

Individuals with anxiety or social disorders such as Asperger syndrome experience difficulties communicating with others. Researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Institute of Medical Engineering and Science (IMES) have developed a wearable device capable of predicting if conversations are happy, sad or neutral to improve communication.

Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini said the uncertainty surrounding the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and its insurance marketplace is too big of a risk for his company, saying it has “no intention of being in the market for 2018.”

Solution Enables Long-Term and Post-Acute Care Providers to Achieve Higher Ratings

For many people, “bootcamp” may make one think of an intense workout. But for eight health-tech startups, the phrase means an opportunity to grow. Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, California has selected eight health-tech startups, out of 650, to join its three-month bootcamp to develop innovations and products to improve patient care.

Hill-Rom has introduced the TruSystem 3000 Mobile Operating Table, a mobile table equipped with ergonomic handling, long-term reliability and patient safety. The conventional head and leg sections are detachable through a coupling system.

The rapid adoption of electronic medical records and cheapening computing power opened the floodgates for health data, creating a wealth of new sources and applications. A roundtable discussion at HIMSS17—led by James B. Golden, PhD, of PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC)— aims to investigate how this new emphasis on data can benefit patients.