The individual health insurance marketplace experienced a 12 percent decline in enrollment during the first quarter of 2018 compared to the same time period last year.

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced this week that it is unveiling CT scanners at airports throughout the United States to scan carry-on luggage and improve the detection of “critical explosives and other threat items.”

Considering healthcare will be a central topic in the run up to the 2018 mid-term elections, “Medicare for all” is a concept that is gaining traction among left-leaning politicians. A recent study, though, found that implementation of such a program would cost $32.6 trillion over 10 years.

Alan Andrew Beauchamp, Dallas-based Forest Park Medical Center’s co-founder and former manager, pleaded guilty in a $200 million healthcare fraud case. Beauchamp recruited high-volume specialty doctors and paid them $40 million in bribes and kickbacks to perform surgeries.

A new study funded by the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute in Virginia found that dense breast notification policies were associated with an increase in follow-up ultrasound.

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced a four-year, $300 million deal with 23andMe, a personal genomics and biotechnology company based in Mountain View, California. The British pharmaceutical company will have access to genetic information of 23andMe’s five million customers.

CMS released the 2019 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (HOPPS) proposed rule and 2019 Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System proposed rule this week, pushing for site-neutral payments and updating OPPS payment rates by 1.25 percent.

CMS released its plan to reduce paperwork and improve patient care on Friday, July 27, that could have implications for 40 percent of Medicare payments. The plan combines four levels of paperwork and four levels of reimbursement to be combined in a single form and one flat fee for each physician appointment.