Trump Administration Announces Historic Price Transparency Requirements to Increase Competition and Lower Healthcare Costs for All Americans
As directed by President Trump’s Executive Order on Improving Price and Quality Transparency in American Healthcare, today the Department of Health and Human Services is announcing that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is issuing two rules that take historic steps to increase price transparency to empower patients and increase competition among all hospitals, group health plans and health insurance issuers in the individual and group markets.
Newsroom Press ReleaseTrump Administration Strengthens Medicare by Reducing Provider Burden and Valuing Time Spent with Patients
Today, the Trump Administration and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized major policy changes that implement key provisions of President Trump’s Executive Order on Protecting and Improving Medicare for Our Nation’s Seniors that will reduce clinical burden, ensure appropriate payment for clinicians, and enable them to provide their patients with high quality care.
Newsroom Press ReleaseTrump Administration takes Steps to Expand Access to Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder
The CY 2020 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule (CMS-1715-F) establishes Medicare Coverage for Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Services Furnished by Opioid Treatment Programs.
Newsroom Press ReleaseTrump Administration Strengthens Medicare by Fostering Innovation and Modernizing Payment Methodologies to Provide Kidney Patients with Better Value and Results
Today, the Trump Administration and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized changes to the Medicare rules for Durable Medical Equipment Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Supplies (DMEPOS), the End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Prospective Payment System (PPS), and the ESRD Quality Incentive Program (QIP).
Newsroom Press ReleaseTrump Administration Delivers on Promise to Strengthen Medicare with a New Home Infusion Therapy Benefit and Home Health Regulations that Put Patients Over Paperwork
Today, consistent with the direction of President Trump’s Executive Order on Protecting and Improving Medicare for Our Nation’s Seniors, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized significant changes to the Home Health Prospective Payment System (HH PPS), including a new home infusion therapy benefit that builds on the historic steps we have already taken to strengthen and protect the Medicare program by increasing choices and empowering patients.
Newsroom Press ReleaseTrump Administration Puts Patients Over Paperwork by Reducing Healthcare Administrative Costs
Finalized policy projected to save approximately $8 billion over 10 years, increases access to life-saving organ transplants
Newsroom Press ReleaseCMS Announces New Enforcement Authorities to Reduce Criminal Behavior in Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today issued a final rule that strengthens the agency’s ability to stop fraud before it happens by keeping unscrupulous providers out of our federal health insurance programs.
Newsroom Press ReleaseTrump Administration Finalizes Policies to Advance Rural Health and Medical Innovation
Historic changes to the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH) Prospective Payment System mean better quality and access
Newsroom Press ReleaseCMS Takes Bold Action to Implement Key Elements of President Trump’s Executive Order to Empower Patients with Price Transparency and Increase Competition to Lower Costs for Medicare Beneficiaries
Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) & Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) proposed rule advances CMS’ commitment to increasing price transparency and strengthening Medicare
Newsroom Press ReleaseTrump Administration’s Patients over Paperwork Delivers for Doctors
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is proposing major policy changes to ensure clinicians spend more time providing high-value care for patients instead of filing cumbersome paperwork.
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