Medicare
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Feb. 20 issued a rule proposing changes to the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) model, which bundles payment to acute care hospitals for hip and knee replacement surgery.
The number of Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized with sepsis increased 40% between 2012 and 2018, according to a study by Department of Health and Human Services researchers.
President Trump today submitted to Congress his budget request for fiscal year 2021.
President Trump today submitted to Congress his budget request for fiscal year (FY) 2021. The budget request, which is not binding, proposes hundreds of billions of dollars in reductions to Medicare and Medicaid over 10 years.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released toolkits highlighting care coordination and patient engagement strategies from Medicare accountable care organizations.
AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack provides perspective on Medicaid and details potential cuts to the program which threaten millions of America’s most vulnerable patients.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Feb. 5 issued a proposed rule and the second part of the Advanced Notice, which would make policy and technical changes to the Medicare Part C and D programs, including the Medicare Advantage (MA) Program, the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today proposed changes to the Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D programs, including implementing various provisions of the SUPPORT Act and 21st Century Cures Act.
The House Committee on Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations held a hearing on potential changes to the annual inflation factor that the Census Bureau uses to measure poverty, which would have eligibility implications for a number of federal programs including Medicaid.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a national decision to cover diagnostic laboratory tests using next generation sequencing for certain Medicare patients with inherited ovarian or breast cancer.