UnitedHealth Group, the largest health insurer in the U.S., has announced a shuffle in the upper echelons of its leadership with CEO Stephen Hemsley stepping down and President David Wichmann assuming the role next month.

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.

When ranking integrated health systems by the total number of facilities they own or manage, there’s a new No. 1: St. Louis, Mo.-based Ascension Health.

Groups which have previously partnered with HHS to promote open enrollment on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchanges say there have been no signs that work will continue in the first enrollment period under President Donald Trump.

Venkat Bhamidipati came into his new role as CFO at Renton, Wash.-based Providence St. Joseph Health having no prior experience at a hospital or health system. His background was in technology, having spent 13 years at Microsoft, which he feels will serve him well with “dramatic improvements” that tech can bring to the industry.

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

September to set to be a busy month for Congress, with deadlines approaching on the next federal budget, the debt ceiling and the question of continuing insurer subsidies under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). President Donald Trump wants to add another item to that large agenda: another try at repealing the ACA.