A new national analysis of hospital data shows that older adults in the United States increasingly are spending more time in emergency departments (EDs) than federal guidelines recommend — delays that ...

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services posted the draft home health rule for calendar year 2026, which includes a proposal to subject continuous glucose monitors and insulin pumps to ...

The so-called "One, Big Beautiful Bill," spanning over 900 pages, includes the largest cuts to Medicaid in the program's 50-plus years. What to know.

House Republicans passed their budget reconciliation omnibus — the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” — which would cut ...

The model will leverage AI and machine learning for prior authorization of services vulnerable to fraud or inappropriate use, CMS says.

A Raymond James analyst is warning that a just proposed 6.4% cut in Medicare payments to home health care agencies in 2026 ...

Officials said they had "identified suspicious activity related to unauthorized creation of certain beneficiary online ...

Shares in leading medical device makers declined sharply Tuesday after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled a proposal to reduce payments to home health agencies, potentially ...

As the contract between UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage and Brown University Health's Rhode Island hospitals is set to ...

Glenn Medical Center, a 25-bed hospital in Willows, Calif., is on the verge of losing its “critical access hospital” designation due to a geographic classification dispute with CMS. Hospital leaders ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is the federal agency that oversees health coverage programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

These are not duplicate programs; they are complementary. Medicaid pays for what Medicare does not: Medicare premiums, co-pays and other out-of-pocket costs, and vital services like nursing home care.