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 ...

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 ...

At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Medicare spending on lab tests increased overall, despite spending for non-COVID-19 tests falling for the first time since 2016, according to the Office of the ...

A new report from the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) found that about 4 in 10 Medicare patients in nursing homes likely contracted COVID-19 in 2020. "We knew ...

Congressional Democrats are looking at options to allow Medicare drug price negotiations. Savings generated by the drug price negotiations would be used to offset the cost of expanding Medicare ...