Several changes in Medicare health and drug plans are scheduled to take effect next year. The Part D coverage gap, known as the doughnut hole, is closing in 2020, but people with high drug costs face ...

On August 25, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released performance results for the eighth performance year (2020) of the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP). The results for ...

During the 2020-2021 pandemic year, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools elementary students often saw dramatic drops in proficiency. The percent of Latino fourth graders proficient in math, for instance, ...

Insurers gave out approximately $2 billion in rebates for 2020 to nearly 10 million consumers under the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA's) medical loss ratio provision. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ...

On January 16, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) & the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) withdrew an appeal to a recent copay accumulator court decision, HIV and ...

This week four years ago, I was working for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, helping lead the national Medicaid program. The Affordable Care Act was hitting its stride. The number of ...

Medicare's largest alternative payment model produced its highest annual savings to date in 2020, as shown by performance data released this week by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The ...

Medicare’s Skilled Nursing Facility Value-Based Purchasing Program, which awards value-based incentive payments based on hospital readmissions, distributed its first two rounds of incentives during ...

Medicare premiums and other costs will increase in 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced. But the CMS reported earlier that premiums for the private sector ...