The Medicare Shared Savings Program generated $1.8 billion in savings for Medicare in 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Thursday. This is the sixth year in a row ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will offer nursing students up to $40,000 in tuition reimbursement or $10,000 outright to work for a nursing home or state survey agency, the agency ...

Dive Brief: The CMS won’t approve or extend federal Medicaid funding requests for certain state health programs, the agency said last week.; In a press release, the regulator said designated ...

CMS is brokering outcomes-based agreements on behalf of Medicaid programs. Thirty-three states, along with Washington, D.C., ...

Medicare’s value-based programs are penalizing inpatient hospitals for community-level health equity factors that impact outcomes but are largely out of hospitals’ control, ...

According to CMS, these types of programs accounted for roughly $886 million in the federal Medicaid budget in 2019 but that has since increased to $2.7 billion, “representing increasing costs ...

The new programs build on previous outreach from CMS, including 1.2 million targeted mailers sent out to seniors and disabled people about Extra Help and other Medicare Savings Programs that they ...

A Path to Better Care for Older Adults: Optimizing Medicare and Medicaid Payments Through Implementation of the CMS Age Friendly Hospital Measure, INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization ...

The Medicare Shared Savings Program enables providers to form ACOs that promise higher-quality coordinated care for fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries.

CMS was unable to respond to an interview request about how many nephrologists and other providers will be impacted by the delay in the Kidney Care Choices program.