The net inflation adjustment for ASCs is 2.9% in 2024, nearly a full percentage point higher than the average since 2023, according to the VMG Health 2025 Healthcare M&A Report. The lowest the net ...

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As of Dec. 31, 7,718 areas in the U.S. were designated as health professional shortage areas, affecting 76.3 million people. While this marks a decrease of 271 shortage areas since 2021, only 47.2% of ...

Under a managed care arrangement, Medicaid MCOs determine the rates they pay providers for inpatient hospital services.

AHA urges Congress to reject reductions to the Medicaid program that would not only strip access to health care from some of ...

Improper payments by the Health and Human Services Department have decreased since 2021, but some programs have seen ...

Rural America faces many challenges that Congress and the federal government could help alleviate under the new Trump ...

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) last year finalized its 2025 payment rule for home health providers, marking a critical moment for ...

Representatives of billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have turned their focus to the Centers ...

As a result, since 2020, Medicare has cut physician pay each year, despite rising costs for physicians to run their practices. Congress has introduced special legislation four times since 2020 to try ...

The difficulty that stakeholders face in comparing contracts with different structures could be solved by a standardized ...