Stakeholders have expressed longstanding concerns with how the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has ...
CMS rulemaking or Congress should remove the outdated coverage exclusion on obesity treatment for Medicare beneficiaries.
The delayed implementation of the model in Medicare gives CMS, plans, and manufacturers an opportunity to address key ...
Nearly two decades ago, Congress passed the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Amendments Act of 2007 , partially in response to several high-profile safety-related concerns ab ...
HIPAA was not designed to protect patients in a world where their medical samples can be repurposed as a full forensic ...
CMS and states can take practical, near-term policy actions to strengthen whole-person care for dual-eligible beneficiaries ...
The Camden Coalition’s Community Ecosystem Alignment Tool can help diagnose coordination gaps, improve performance, and ...
Can the model generate sufficient clinical improvement to justify the likely distortions that accompany large-scale payment ...
States are now required to suspend Medicaid benefits for incarcerated adults instead of terminating them outright. But the ...
Presenteeism, or attending work despite being ill enough to warrant absence, is endemic among working Americans. Although research suggests that paid sick leave mandates reduce presenteeism, it has ...
Tobacco use drives large health and fiscal costs for Medicaid, yet few enrollees who use these products receive cessation pharmacotherapy. We estimated that 10.4 percent of daily tobacco or nicotine ...
The hospital wage index standardizes Medicare hospital payments for labor cost differences, paying otherwise equivalent hospitals more when they operate in areas with higher labor costs than in areas ...