The American Hospital Association (AHA) and dozens of doctors and hospitals have asked CMS to delay proposed cuts to Medicaid disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments, arguing reductions would hamper safety-net hospitals and criticizing how the payments would be calculated.

Rising out-of-pocket costs and the shift towards high-deductible health plans will cause admissions to be weak at for-profit hospitals through 2018, according to Reuters.

The largest hospital system in New York, Northwell Health, announced it will wind down operations of its CareConnect insurance division due to financial losses caused by the Affordable Care Act’s risk adjustment program.

The shuttered Mineral Area Regional Medical Center in Farmington, Missouri, was sold for just $13, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

John Popovich, MD, president and CEO of Detroit’s Henry Ford Hospital, has announced he’ll be retiring from the role at the end of the second quarter of 2018.

Iowa has submitted a plan to CMS to change Affordable Care Act regulations in the state, which would create a new reinsurance program, eliminate the metal-tiered benefit structures of ACA plans as well as end payment of cost-sharing reduction (CSR) subsidies to insurers.

Researchers from the University of Waterloo and the Sunnybrook Research Institute in Toronto have developed machine learning software capable of detecting melanoma skin cancer. This early detection method aims to provide tools necessary to catch and treat skin cancer in its early and most treatable stages.

An expanded vendor hall is one of the draws for repeat attendees at this year’s American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) conference, being held in Los Angeles from Oct. 7-11. Attendees are expecting to find “anything that makes their job easier,” according to group’s vice president of health information management (HIM) practice excellence, Lou Ann Wiedemann, MS.