Insurance companies offering coverage on the individual market have requested a 24 percent average increase in premiums for 2017, according to a new analysis.

The rate review mechanism enacted by the Affordable Care Act was intended to shame health insurers that asked for large premium hikes, but as the New York Times reports, insurers are trying to use it to their advantage for 2017.

Pathway Health, a post-acute consulting firm, and Virtual Health, a population health management technology provider, have entered into a partnership that will provide Pathway with strategic consulting services to improve technology and payment models.

When public figures act or speak differently than usual—or differently than anyone else around them—some people (and the media that cater to them) look for medical or mental-health related explanations. But the American Psychiatric Association (APA) has issued a reminder to its members: Don’t engage in such public analysis diagnostics when you don’t actually know the person in question. 

Here’s a roundup of the latest state healthcare news, including a deadly bacteria closing down a Maryland neonatal intensive care unit and why one state lawmaker in Missouri has been blocking efforts to create a prescription drug monitoring database.

With enrollment in Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) increasing by 60 percent in the past five years, CMS is proposing changes to “modernize” the team-based home care services program for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries.

STAT News reports hospitals are increasingly reluctant to perform transplants involving extremely ill patients or less-than-perfect organs, fearing poor surgical outcomes could lead to reduced hospital ratings and Medicare funding.

In two separate announcements from HHS, the agency said while the risk pool for the health insurance exchanges has improved, it’s “exploring options” to adjust the Affordable Care Act’s risk adjustment program to account for sicker, more expensive enrollees.