When a person first signs up for Medicare, they may come across many terms and abbreviations. Learning the definitions of these terms can help make it easier to understand and navigate Medicare.

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022 has brought new urgency to defining the phrase “unmet medical need,” or UMN. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will consider the extent to ...

The U.S. CMS has confirmed that it will cover renal denervation as a treatment for hypertension in a final coverage memo that ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, “Health Policy at a Crossroads.” Articles in this topic will offer timely analysis of regulatory, legislative, and judicial ...

ICD-10 doomsday is Oct. 1, 2014, for physicians, hospitals and all other providers, and CMS is ramping up its guidance on how providers should prepare for the transition. CMS released two articles in ...

If you have a bacterial infection, you need to take antibiotics. If health care providers need to determine that you have a broken bone, you’ll need to have an X-ray. Those are some examples of ...

Some Medicare Advantage (MA) plans do not intend to abide by the 2024 CMS rule that prohibits them from denying coverage of services that traditional Medicare would cover. Instead, the private plans ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently announced a delay to new long-term acute care reimbursement rules. This has been a bright spot for Select Medical Holdings (SEM) and has driven ...