On September 8, 2016, CMS announced in a blogpost that new physician payment model reforms, established in the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), will begin implementation ...

A new U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) draft Strategic Plan for 2018 through 2022 contains verbiage defining human life as "beginning at conception" (i.e. with the fertilization of ...

CMS has issued its inpatient prospective payment systems final rule for fiscal year 2017, which does away with the two-midnight rule’s inpatient pay cuts. The 2,434-page rule also includes rate ...

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released proposed updates to its Calendar Year (CY) 2017 Home Health Prospective Payment System (HH ...

The Office of Inspector General has the National Institute of Health's security and data control in its crosshairs. Its recently released 2017 agenda highlighted the need to ensure protection and ...

Amid early signs that insurance premiums under Obamacare might rise significantly next year, administration officials Tuesday previewed their plans to increase enrollment in the marketplaces, ...

A new report released by the Department of Health and Human Services highlights the greatest hits of the Trump administration in 2017, including its responses to the opioid crisis and the devastating ...

Medicaid improper payments, including fraud, have spiked in recent years, reaching $37 billion in 2017, according to a government watchdog agency. And the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS ...

CMS also established a Federal Health Insurance Exchange special enrollment period, allowing certain individuals impacted by these hurricanes who experienced a qualifying life event to select a new ...

With a critical mass of legacy IT and a plan to modernize, HHS represents a wealth of opportunities for government contractors. Around 40 percent of the systems of record at the Department of Health ...

Insurers began filing their 2017 qualified health plan (QHP) proposals with the federally facilitated marketplace on April 11, 2016 and will continue to do so through May 11. QHP insurers must submit ...