Providers who fail to meet the standards of the Physician Quality Reporting System in 2016 will get a pass from CMS in 2017 and 2018, the agency has announced. CMS said it will not penalize providers ...

Proposed rate changes to Medicare Advantage rates in 2018 would result in an estimated 2 percent reduction in MA insurer net revenues, which could mean cuts to beneficiary coverage and benefits, ...

Retirees are paying more for their healthcare than ever before, and that makes knowing the costs associated with Medicare's monthly premiums critical to retirement planning. Will these costs break ...

Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Medicare& Medicaid Services issued the following fact sheet:. On August 2, 2017, the Centers for Medicare& Medicaid Services issued a final rule ...

CMS released an updated tool to help clinicians determine if they must participate in this year’s Merit-based Incentive Payment System, according to the American Hospital Association. The tool ...

A new Trump administration report found that 2.5 million unsubsidized customers left the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA's) exchanges from 2016 to 2018, a 40% decrease. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ...

The number of clinicians achieving qualifying APM participant status also nearly doubled from 2017 to 2018. A version of this article was first published July 13, 2020, by HCPro's Revenue Cycle ...

With Medicare’s main trust fund projected to run out in just seven years, the Trump Administration is working hard to lower health care costs and increase quality to protect the Medicare program for ...

CMS issued its update to the 2018 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule on Thursday, which includes a proposal to cut Medicare payments by half for services provided by certain provider-owned, off-campus ...

The Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program (MDPP) is a milestone of innovation. First, it was the first Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) model test to be expanded as a standard benefit ...