In a recent roundtable, the Department of Health and Human Services and executives from top insurance providers pledged to address longstanding concerns around prior authorizations, aiming to reduce ...

Becker’s reported on six developments in CMS and Medicare news affecting spine surgery and physicians. 1. Some fee-for-service spine procedures in traditional Medicare will have prior authorizations ...

About 68.5 million Americans are currently enrolled in some type of Medicare plan, with about 90% of enrollees being over age 65, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services July 15 issued a proposed rule ( that would increase Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system rates by a net 2.4% in calendar year 2026 ...

In an about-face, the administration is cracking down on so-called skin substitutes, overused treatments that cost Medicare ...

Funneling money to for-profit companies by rewarding them for denying health care coverage through using unproven, manipulable AI models is not the answer. The Trump Administration is bringing prior ...

The sweeping regulation proposes notable changes to how Medicare pays physicians, but overall results in a modest bump to ...

CMS is proposing changing the Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program to allow more people to access coaching and peer support, as well as practical training in dietary change, physical activity and beha ...

Trump admin to use AI for Medicare authorization denials, raising concerns about access to care and increased denials for ...

In a recent joint statement, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz, MD, announced health ...

Many in the MAGA movement are in a state of anger and disbelief over the Justice Department and FBI’s memo disclosing that ...

The Big Beautiful Bill that was signed into law on July Fourth, has bet the nation's future on whether the BBB will work as ...