Avanos (AVNS) Medical announced that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued its final Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Medicare Ambulatory Surgical ...

As we near the turnover of administrations, Health Affairs Forefront offers a series of articles from leaders at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services providing their thoughts on the major ...

On July 15, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Calendar Year (CY) 2026 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems ...

Medicare vouchers are a proposed change to the Medicare system that would involve giving beneficiaries funds, in the form of a voucher, that they can use to buy private insurance. The voucher system, ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment Systems proposed rule, which suggests updates to ...

Emanuel is vice provost for global initiatives and co-director of the Healthcare Transformation Institute at the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

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 – ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Since the mid-2000s, the Medicare system has dramatically transformed. Enrollment in Medicare Advantage – the private alternative ...

CMS has improved its online enrollment system, formally the Medicare Provider Enrollment, Chain, and Ownership System, to allow providers to see if they need to revalidate their data and digitally ...

Physicians treating Medicare patients have seen their real income drop by more than 33% since 2016, fueled by stagnant reimbursement, growing Medicare Advantage enrollment and surging operating costs, ...