Vermont regulators are pressing to fix a Medicare rule that makes some rural seniors pay more for the same outpatient care ...

Portland stood out in a new study of how hard it is for Medicare patients to find a primary care doctor — and not in a good ...

CMS’s 2025 Advanced Primary Care Management program pays monthly per-patient fees for care already delivered, yet most ...

Fix Prior Authorization. In traditional Medicare, there is virtually no prior authorization, the equivalent of an insurer’s permission slip, to provide medical services. Instead, doctors are simply ...

Some social media users misinterpreted the announcement and believed the moratorium was on patients receiving supplies, not ...

CMS announced a new initiative to improve care for Medicare beneficiaries with end-stage renal disease. The Comprehensive ESRD Care initiative, which is being run through the CMS Innovation Center, ...

In its 2026 Physician Fee Schedule, CMS finalized a mandatory payment model that will begin Jan. 1, 2027, and hold certain outpatient specialists financially accountable for how they manage chronic ...

CMS is increasingly relying on a relatively new regulatory tool to quickly remove clinicians and companies from the Medicare system when they are even loosely affiliated with other organizations being ...

Researchers found median wait times varied from eight days to 61 days, with Portland clinics offering the longest wait.

Stroke patients with Medicare Advantage health insurance plans are less likely to be discharged to highly rated post-acute ...

Medicare's 2025 APCM billing update pays primary care physicians a monthly per-patient fee for care management; no ...