Dr. Mehmet Oz, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, told senators Friday that Medicare should cover newly approved medical devices more quickly to ...

A new bill aims to require Medicare cover new breakthrough medical devices for four years as the agency prepares for its own regulation on the issue. A bipartisan group of House lawmakers introduced ...

Imagine dying of thirst with a glass of water just out of reach. The analogy is extreme, but that is how helpless some patients feel when they can’t access therapies approved to treat their deadly ...

Neumann is director of the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk (CEVR) at Tufts Medical Center. Crummer is a research assistant at CEVR. Kaltenboeck is a principal and head of prescription drug ...

Medicare will speed nationwide payment decisions for as many as five promising new medical devices a year, a move that could get some products to patients earlier and spare companies from a ...

WASHINGTON, June 18-- The office of Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts sent a letter to Food and ...

Hearing loss affects one in three people ages 65 to 74, according to the National Institutes of Health. And while hearing aids can greatly improve quality of life, they're often expensive. If you're ...