Over the last three years, under the Trump Administration, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has been advancing innovative payment and service delivery models to help move our health ...

Following CMS’ announcement of proposed rules for the 2019 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, Community Oncology Alliance (COA) released a statement calling the proposals “puzzling.” The statement ...

The Community Oncology Alliance (COA) announced their support of CMS’ 2019 Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) Proposed Rule. The Community Oncology Alliance (COA) announced their support of ...

The Next Generation Accountable Care Organization program saved Medicare $559 million in 2019 as the program’s future remains in doubt. The National Association of ACOs released an analysis on the ...

Healthcare spending in the U.S. increased 4.6% in 2019 — on par with previous years and accounting for 17.7% of the nation's total gross domestic product compared with 17.6% in 2018, an analysis from ...

Buried within the latest issue of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) MLN Connects, dated January 14, 2021, is an announcement from the agency that hospitals with excepted hospital ...

The savings represents a $940 million increase over the $1.7 billion saved in 2018. Medicare's Shared Savings Program generated $2.6 billion in savings in 2019, and netted $1.2 billion after paying ...

The FY 2019 Medicare FFS estimated improper payment rate is 7.25 percent, representing $28.91 billion in improper payments, compared to the FY 2018 estimated improper payment rate of 8.12 percent, ...

In 2019, 541 accountable care organizations in the Medicare Shared Savings Program generated $1.19 billion in total net savings to Medicare, the largest annual savings for the program to date, ...

Starting in 2019, Medicare Advantage plans will have the flexibility to target non-medical health-related services to members who have chronic care conditions. MA insurers will be able to target ...

New government data puts in stark relief how dramatically telehealth use exploded last year, with the share of Medicare visits conducted virtually skyrocketing from just 840,000 in 2019 to 52.7 ...

Mireille Jacobson ([email protected]) is an associate professor at the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology and codirector of the Aging and Cognition Program at the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for ...