The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is set to roll out risk-based surveys on a more broad basis, with final ...

CMS intends to use the $1.2 trillion in provider payment it controls to push whole menu of value-based care programs.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has pulled information on health equity for the Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) through Section 1115 waivers. Now, CMS is ...

The agency is looking at “testing new approaches and really being able to think outside of the box” to claw back improper ...

The history of HCBS demonstrates that its growth is not, in fact, evidence of massive undetected fraud, but rather is based on decades of federal policy response to major demographic change, guided by ...

Healthcare spending reached nearly $5 trillion in 2023, growing by 7.5% from the prior year, according to new data from the federal government. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently published its Proposed 2026 Physician Fee Schedule Rule (Proposed Rule), with extensive implications for drug pricing, Average Sales Price ...

On Nov. 21, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS or Agency) released the calendar year (CY) 2026 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is continuing to pay Medicare Advantage (MA) plans more -- $76 billion more in 2026 -- than if those same patients were enrolled in traditional ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...

The incident was related to a vulnerability in the MOVEit file transfer software, which was linked to data breaches at thousands of organizations last year. The vulnerability in the MOVEit software ...