The annual report card from the Boards of Trustees for Medicare paints a grim financial picture for the future of the program.

Just a day before congressional Republicans introduced a plan to replace the ACA, HHS released a study saying Medicaid expansion under the law has been beneficial to the vast majority of its users. 

McKesson Corp. has been in talks about merging its information technology unit with Change Healthcare Inc., reports Reuters.

In what the Department of Justice (DOJ) is calling the “largest takedown ever” of Medicare fraud, 301 people, including 61 physicians, nurses, pharmacists and physical therapists, have been charged with approximately $900 million in false billings.

A study released by Frank R. Lichtenberg of the Montreal Economic Institute said while the price of prescription drugs remains high, the implementation of medical innovation leads to more savings in the long run.

One way to improve the risk pool on the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance marketplaces is to get more young adults to purchase coverage on the exchanges, so HHS has laid out some of its strategies to court younger people who haven’t enrolled in prior years.

With everyone and their mother trying to make a name for themselves in the technological world of app creation, why can’t physicians try it out too? Well now they are, by helping to develop applications from the minds on the front lines of healthcare, reports Forbes.

Repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a cap on Medicaid funding, medical liability reform and loosening restrictions on insurers denying coverage based on pre-existing conditions are among the features of the new House Republican health care plan.