Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) news and information

Like partners choosing up for a dance—or, depending on one's outlook for the healthcare industry, teams forming for a game of dodgeball—providers organizations aiming to be early adopters of Big Data and large-scale analytics programs are busy picking out their advisers and IT providers.
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Medicare patients who have been treated for prostate cancer and other solid tumors will continue to have access to PET scans to guide subsequent therapy. Physicians, patients and medical imaging companies talked the CMS out of virtually ending payment for post-treatment PET scans.
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From industry media to your hometown newspaper, news about the push for transparency in healthcare pricing is hard to miss these days.
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Federal officials are looking to scale back the use of long observation stays believed to be a response to Medicare auditors cracking down on inappropriate admissions.
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Physicians, patients and medical imaging companies talked the CMS out of virtually ending Medicare payment for post-treatment positron emission tomography scans for solid tumors.
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The latest release of CMS charges and payments—this time for hospital outpatient services—drew renewed scorn last week from hospital officials.
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The Obama administration and health policy experts have been touting last year's decline in Medicare 30-day hospital readmissions as evidence that delivery and payment reforms designed to prevent unnecessary repeat visits were starting to succeed.
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Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have asked CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner to delay the second-round implementation of Medicare's DMEPOS competitive-bidding program.
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Less than a month after the CMS released data on what hospitals charge for inpatient procedures, the agency has released similar information about prices for outpatient care.
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After nearly three years at the helm of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, Dr. Richard Gilfillan will leave his position at the end of June, according to an internal announcement from CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner.
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