Medicare & Medicaid
Measures helped lower these payments by $6.03 billion in 2016, federal agency says.
What Pence did with Indiana's Medicaid program may place him in a conciliatory middle ground in the political battles to come over Obamacare's future.
Until the case is resolved, insurers will continue to be paid funds on a monthly basis for covering low-income consumers on the ACA exchanges.
CMS is considering new measures for nursing homes, hospitals, clinician practices, and dialysis facilities, among other settings.
Kentucky's enrollment has doubled since late 2013 and today almost a third of its residents are in the program.
Marie Neba, 52, of Sugarland, Texas, will be sentenced early next year for conviction on charges including health care fraud.
The hospital has a model 2 bundled payment program for its congestive heart failure patients.
The CMS Medicare Star Rating system ranks the performance and quality of Medicare Advantage and Medicare prescription drug plans.
4,465 providers participated in the insurer's provider quality rewards program for improved outcomes for Medicare members.
Providers worry they will shoulder more of the cost of care due to cuts in Medicare reimbursement, elimination of subsidies.