Medicare has announced plans to change the way it calculates fees for doctors, signaling that it will rely less on American ...

The proposed rule would increase the conversion factor used to set physician payments by more than 3%. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the proposed rule for the 2026 ...

CMS has released a proposed rule on value-based purchasing, which involves paying hospitals for performance on quality measures, according to a release by CMS. Currently, CMS pays hospitals simply for ...

The HHS sends a newly proposed drug pricing rule for review at the White House, marking its latest efforts to address soaring ...

Fifteen years after the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA) directed the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to implement intermediate sanctions for noncompliant home health agencies ...

The White House announced on Thursday that a proposed drug pricing rule drafted by the Department of Health & Human Services ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Monday issued a proposed rule on payments for inpatient stays and long-term care that lifts payments for hospitals and rolls back payment cuts under ...

CMS suggests a modest 2.4% payment update in the 2026 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System proposed rule on top of changes to site-neutral payments, price transparency, and 340B funds. CMS ...

Despite an underwhelming 2.8% Medicare Part A proposed pay raise, nursing home advocates found reason to be encouraged on several other fronts after the fiscal 2026 SNF PPS rule was released late ...

ASHP noted that the draft rule includes several concerning proposals that would reduce Medicare funding for patient care services. The proposed rule also includes provisions addressing the elimination ...