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MA star ratings improvements can help plans expand their share of an increasingly saturated market.

Saving lives can save hospitals money but challenges remain, according to experts who will be speaking at the HIMSS Precision Medicine Summit in Washington D.C. on May 17-18, 2018.

Lack of access to nutritious food is a social determinant of health linked to high healthcare costs; about 13 percent of U.S. households report food insecurity.

Welltok, the Denver-based software-as-a-service company that built the CafeWell Health Optimization Platform, has pulled in $75 million in a Series E2 funding round.

CHS, already facing financial troubles, has been accused of breaching contractual obligations with the tech giant, by continuing the use of Microsoft products at some of its recently sold hospitals.

For those in a recent MGMA poll who say they are already on it, implementing technology plays a major role in their success.

Paying hospitals a fixed global budget reduced their prices but individual physicians continued to be paid on a fee-for-service basis.

Humana is challenged to improve the health of its Medicare Advantage population but got a boost in MA payments this week.

The number remained high even as the agency cut costs for the most cost effective and successful open enrollment to date, CMS says.

"The survey strongly suggests that the majority of physicians would like to move away from the Medicaid status quo," Merritt Hawkins EVP says.