CMS has unveiled a proposed rule for the 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, targeting higher quality care, improved chronic disease management and cost savings. “We are taking meaningful steps to ...

A proposed payment rule unveiled Monday by CMS aims to reduce unnecessary spending and boost quality measures, as well as ...

Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act created federal work requirements for Medicaid recipients, which amount to 80 hours a ...

Hospitals are bracing for the impact from the Medicaid cuts in President Trump's sweeping spending and tax cut law. While most of the cuts won’t happen immediately, rural facilities in particular say ...

The proposed rule would close a loophole that has allowed several states to get around the requirement that provider taxes redistribute Medicaid funds to a range of providers, not just the ones that ...

CMS has unveiled the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction model, a new Innovation Center initiative that will add prior authorization for some traditional fee-for-service Medicare services ...

Proposed cuts to Medicaid could undo advances in treatment for opioid use disorders, risking more overdoses, deaths and stress on the U.S. health system ...

Some states used Medicaid funding mechanisms to plug holes created by Medicare funding flaws and insurer payment denials. It's necessity, not waste.

Senate Republicans are taking a bigger swing at Medicaid in their version of legislation to fund President Trump’s domestic policy agenda and extend his first-term tax cuts.

Proposed Medicaid cuts in the House Republicans’ sprawling domestic policy bill could cause an estimated 7.6 million Americans to lose health insurance.

Senate Republicans are still trying to hammer out a version of President Trump's budget package known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

Long-term care providers have several clear courses of action to take now that the haggling is over and the new federal budget is law. Above all, nursing home leaders must not be passive, experts say.