Emanuel is vice provost for global initiatives and co-director of the Healthcare Transformation Institute at the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

CMS has announced major 2026 updates spanning the Physician Fee Schedule, PECOS 2.0 migration, and revised CMS-855 forms, aiming to modernize Medicare payment and oversight. The changes bring dual ...

The American Hospital Association comments on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ fiscal year 2027 IRF prospective payment system proposed rule.

In the United States, politicians routinely debate issues relating to the Medicare system, and some offer proposals to change it. One proposal that has arisen in different forms over the years is the ...

Avanos (AVNS) Medical announced that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued its final Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Medicare Ambulatory Surgical ...

Medicare is a mess. Our federal politicians need to take a hard look at the big three entitlement programs, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, to find reforms to those programs so our nation does ...

Donald Berwick, MD, MPP, a pediatrician, was the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) during the Obama administration and is president emeritus and senior fellow at the ...

CMS administers critical functions that support the nation’s entire health system, including guaranteeing the safety of hospitals and nursing homes, setting the coding and data standards for health ...

In any career, 25 years of dedicated work is a lot to let go of. In medicine, it amounts to hundreds of patient relationships, and the blood, sweat, and tears that go into starting and maintaining a ...

Most people over a certain age are familiar with going in for a colonoscopy, a routine method of screening for and preventing colon cancer. What they might not know is that the cost of the procedure ...