The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released its “Digital Health Innovation Action Plan” to provide guidance on medical devices and software in the 21st Century Cures Act. The Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) was launched as a pilot precertification program for the development of digital health technology.

A proposed rule from CMS offered greater detail on the methodology for implementing the Affordable Care Act’s $43 billion in cuts to Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) payments between 2018 and 2025.

The largest Medicare Advantage insurer, UnitedHealth, allegedly concealed hundreds of complaints about fraud and misconduct among its MA sales staff from the federal government to receive payments to which it wasn’t entitled, according to a newly unsealed whistleblower lawsuit.

Brian Gragnolati, president and CEO of Morristown, New Jersey-based Atlantic Health System, has been selected to become chairman of the American Hospital Association’s board of trustees beginning in 2019.

Nucleus 7, a device from Apple and Cochlear, a hearing assistance company, is a surgically implanted sound processor connected to the iPhone to improve the quality of life for impaired patients.

The decisive vote to repeal and/or replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) ended in an early-morning defeat for Republican opponents of the law, as three GOP senators—Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and John McCain of Arizona—voted no on the so-called “skinny repeal” plan.

In 2016, physician-owned practices spent between $2,000 and $4,000 more on IT expenses per full-time-equivalent (FTE) physician, according to Medical Group Management Association’s (MGMA) annual DataDive Cost and Revenue Survey.

Researchers at IBM and the University of Alberta have developed artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms capable of predicting schizophrenia with 74 percent accuracy.