The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission Jan. 15 voted to recommend that Congress update Medicare payment rates for hospital ...

The advisory group wants Congress to approve a 0.5 percentage point increase for doctors in Medicare next year. But some ...

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has voted to approve a draft recommendation that would reduce the Medicare base payment rate for home ...

A Congressional advisory group on Thursday voted to recommend a 4% pay cut for skilled nursing providers next fiscal year, ...

In 2025, Medicare-certified home health providers faced dramatic uncertainty. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ...

HHS announced a 5.06% average increase in the government's final reimbursement rates for 2026 Medicare Advantage health plans run by private insurers, more than double the increase it proposed in ...

Medicare fee-for-service payment rates under the PFS have struggled to keep pace with inflation. According to the American Medical Association (AMA), between 2001 and 2025, Medicare physician pay ...

Physicians are asking for greater certainty around Medicare reimbursement, arguing that compounding payment decreases over time have drastically increased the pressure on practices. Industry ...

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission recently proposed a policy to equalize Medicare payment rates for evaluation and management services between hospital outpatient departments and freestanding ...

Physicians in the U.S. are doing more work than ever before — but they’re getting paid less. This month, consulting firm Kaufman Hall released new research on work relative value units, or wRVUs, for ...

In the healthcare finance world, it’s conventional wisdom to believe lower Medicare payment rates to hospitals lead to higher rates, or cost-shifting, to private health insurers, but according to a ...