Medicare payments to physicians and hospitals should increase in 2018, but a planned payment bump for ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs) should be scrapped, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC).

Aura Labs has agreed to settle charges from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) relating to its Instant Blood Pressure (IBP) mobile application, which came under fire for claims that is was as effective as a conventional blood pressure cuff.

Massachusetts’ largest health network, Partners Healthcare, lost $108 million on operations for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, reversing a $106 million profit a year earlier.

If pre-Affordable Care Act (ACA) health insurance regulations returned with a repeal of the law, 52 million people under the age of 65—27 percent of the U.S. population—could be denied coverage on the individual market due to pre-existing conditions.

A study, by University of Maryland business professors Ritu Agarwal and Guodong Gao, examined if online communities were measured on whether they could reduce disparities in healthcare among rural and urban popoulations.

Researchers are attempting to minimize errors caused by confusing labels on over-the-counter medications by incorporating changes in fonts and text colors. The team was able to drop error rates from 68 percent to 16 percent in elderly patients.

Humana indicated it doesn’t expect to receive the $591 million its owed by the federal government under the risk corridor program of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

The nominee to run HHS under President-elect Donald Trump has a history of putting doctors’ interests first.