Care Compare aims to give Medicare patients and family caregivers a user-friendly online tool to make informed decisions about healthcare based on location, cost, quality of care, volume of services, ...

Procedure Price Lookup provides Medicare patients with price differences for some surgical procedures in hospital outpatient and ambulatory surgery center care venues. The Centers for Medicare & ...

CMS should provide additional guidance to the states regarding a Medicaid eligibility tool designed to reduce improper payments, according to a report from the HHS Office of Inspector General. The ...

Though the tool is live on the site, CMS is still accepting feedback so that it can work out glitches and help make the resource more useful to patients and families. Q: CMS recently updated its Care ...

The scorecard aligns with CMS' stated goal of avoiding micromanaging state Medicaid programs and instead holding states accountable for outcomes. It's also the latest push from the agency in a string ...

Several plans under California’s new cost-saving Medicaid initiative have started using a new tool that’s pushing to create new pathways to transition residents away from skilled nursing facilities ...

CMS updated its Opioid Prescribing Mapping Tool to give users a more in-depth look at opioid prescribing rates across the U.S., the agency announced Feb. 22. 1. CMS launched the tool in 2015, which ...

October 15 marked the start of another Medicare open enrollment period when Medicare’s roughly 60 million beneficiaries have the opportunity to make changes to their Medicare coverage. Beneficiaries ...