CMS updated key timelines for public reporting changes that affect nursing homes, including delaying a quality measure recalculation.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday issued guidance on state-directed payment quality evaluations, ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) submitted a regulation to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that could upend Medicaid provider tax program financing. The regulation is ...

The proposal threatens states’ ability to fund state supplemental payment programs for Medicaid, which providers rely on as a boost for revenues. Provider taxes have been around in some form since the ...

The Trump administration is moving forward with tighter oversight of Medicaid state-directed payments. CMS issued preliminary guidance on Sept. 9 on implementing the new limits tied to the One Big ...

The guidance is meant to give states more time to meet requirements laid out in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

The Rural Health Transformation Program — which includes $50 billion in funding — is being positioned as a possible solution ...

This article is part of a new Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, Medicaid Financing. The featured topic includes analysis, proposals, and commentary that will inform policies on the state and ...

Thursday called on federal lawmakers to reauthorize Medicare coverage for telehealth services, which is set to expire at the end of September. “We are still working on ...

Planned Parenthood said Thursday’s ruling means that more than 1.1 million patients can’t use their Medicaid insurance at its ...