CMS issued the 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, or PFS, proposed rule on July 14.It includes a 0.75% increase to the ...

CMS proposed a 2.4% Medicare payment increase for hospitals’ outpatient departments and ambulatory surgery centers in 2026, ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services July 15 issued a proposed rule ( that would increase Medicare hospital ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on July 15, 2025, issued the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment (OPPS) and Ambulatory ...

Becker’s reported on six developments in CMS and Medicare news affecting spine surgery and physicians. 1. Some fee-for-service spine procedures in traditional Medicare will have prior authorizations ...

CMS has extended the window for nursing homes to file off-cycle Medicare revalidation documents until Jan. 1, 2026.

The programs don’t do what they claim to. If they were drugs, regulators would pull them from the market.

Civil monetary penalties against payers for improperly delaying or denying coverage, hitting members with higher cost sharing ...

CMS proposed removing 285 mostly musculoskeletal procedure codes from the inpatient-only list over three years, a move spine surgeon Christian Zimmerman, MD, is watching. Dr. Zimmerman, of St.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has introduced a transformative payment rule proposal aimed at reducing healthcare costs, improving chronic disease management, and modernizing ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services unveiled a proposal on Tuesday that would alter how Medicare reimburses ...