Medicare & Medicaid

The new rule hopes to drive the mass transition to value-based reimbursement, with doctors getting paid based on the quality of their work and the steps they take to improve their practices.

Three participating providers in Next Generation have dropped out, with two citing financial targets as the reason for the departure.

Backers of Montana's seven-month-old Medicaid expansion say they're pleased with the first set of financial data released this week.

Medicaid expansion is making a difference as to whether hospitals are investing in clinics, new equipment and hiring new staff, or looking at the status quo and layoffs, according to a recent report by Georgetown University Health Policy Institute.

With Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt announcing to the Senate Finance Committee Wednesday that the implementation of MACRA may be delayed, physician groups are weighing in, generally agreeing that a delay would benefit smaller practices in particular.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt told the Senate Finance Committee Wednesday that the agency would consider delaying the implementation of MACRA, the industry-overhauling bi-partisan legislation set to go into effect January 1 of next year.

Americans in their 80s and 90s are not the ones amassing the largest medical bills to hold off death, according to a new analysis that challenges a widely held belief about the costs of end-of-life care.

California voters will be asked to weigh in this November on a hospital financing measure called Proposition 52 that is so politically and financially complicated that they might be tempted to avoid it altogether.

New estimates from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services project that health spending growth will outpace the expected average growth in gross domestic product for almost the entire next decade.

A new study by the Brookings Institution claims physicians would earn more in Medicare reimbursements under the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System mandated by MACRA legislation than with the alternative payment model.