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Trump Administration Announces Expanded Coverage for Essential Diagnostic Services Amid COVID-19 Public Health Emergency
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CMS Launches Groundbreaking Model to Lower Out of Pocket Expenses for Insulin
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CMS Expands Coverage of Next Generation Sequencing as a Diagnostic Tool for Patients with Breast and Ovarian Cancer
Final decision provides new access to Next Generation Sequencing tests for certain Medicare patients with cancer to enable more tailored and personalized care
Newsroom Press ReleaseCMS finalizes decision to cover Acupuncture for Chronic Low Back Pain for Medicare beneficiaries
Decision adds new access to acupuncture for Medicare beneficiaries as a potential pain treatment alternative to opioid use
Newsroom Press ReleaseCMS Statement on Extended Comment Period for Transparency in Coverage Proposed Rule (CMS-9915-P)
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CY 2020 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) Policy Changes: Hospital Price Transparency Requirements (CMS-1717-F2)
On November 15, 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized policies that follow directives in President Trump’s Executive Order, entitled “Improving Price and Quality Transparency in American Healthcare to Put Patients First,” that lay the foundation for a patient-driven healthcare system by making prices for items and services provided by all hospitals in the United States more transparent for patients so that they can be more informed about what they might pay for hospital items and services.
Newsroom Fact SheetTrump 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.
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