In 1972, Congress – moved by the plight of patients dying from lack of access to dialysis – approved comprehensive health care coverage through Medicare for people living with End-Stage Renal Disease ...

The health spending statistics and forecasts from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Office of the Actuary are central to health policy evaluation. The current release, which ...

CMS' first bundled payment model, Medicare saved $112.7M but saw no quality improvements in joint replacement care.

Sooner or later, tech leaders learn that it's far easier to screw up a content management system (CMS) project than to get it right. CMS is a risky endeavor because it is complex, costly, and involves ...

Does Medicare’s draft decision to restrict coverage of Aduhelm (aducanumab) to those who enroll in clinical trials - under the coverage with evidence development model - hold lessons for future ...

Background: Medicare beneficiaries without prescription drug coverage consistently fill fewer prescriptions than beneficiaries with some form of drug coverage due to cost. ESRD patients, who are ...

When the annual Government Health IT conference (GHIT11) takes place next month in Washington, D.C., Jessica Kahn, technical director for health IT at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, ...

As Medicare reaches age 50, we see periodic signs of limited efforts to move beyond its youthful exuberance as a full-fledged pay-as-you-go, fee-for-service, universal entitlement program and toward a ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Each year, Medicare makes changes to its health and drug plans that can alter the cost, ...