Contractors working to modernize a provider enrollment system have been shown the door, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced. Instead, CMS will work with the highly influential ...

When everyone has health insurance, providers aren’t burdened with bad debt, charity care and overcrowded emergency ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued the final rule updating Medicare payment policies and rates for skilled nursing facilities under the Skilled Nursing Facility Prospective ...

Since the mid-2000s, the Medicare system has dramatically transformed. Enrollment in Medicare Advantage – the private alternative to the traditional Medicare program administered by the government – ...

For many small business owners, getting a reliable and efficient content management system (CMS) in place at a reasonable cost is high on the list of priorities. A good CMS can help with the smooth ...

Medicare is a mess. Our federal politicians need to take a hard look at the big three entitlement programs, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, to find reforms to those programs so our nation does ...

hat do you think of when you encounter the term “content management system” or “CMS”? I flashback to my first few office jobs where, upon first signing into their publishing systems, I was bombarded ...

The grading system for Medicare Advantage (MA) doesn’t give consumers the information they need to compare health plans, and that can result in poor outcomes, especially for more vulnerable enrollees, ...

Yet another glitch in Medicare system computers is starting to grab the attention of lawmakers. The latest problem involves Medicare taking extra money, sometimes for months in a row from ...

Donald Berwick, MD, MPP, a pediatrician, was the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) during the Obama administration and is president emeritus and senior fellow at the ...

Most people over a certain age are familiar with going in for a colonoscopy, a routine method of screening for and preventing colon cancer. What they might not know is that the cost of the procedure ...

In any career, 25 years of dedicated work is a lot to let go of. In medicine, it amounts to hundreds of patient relationships, and the blood, sweat, and tears that go into starting and maintaining a ...