CMS has finalized a 2.6% payment increase for inpatient services, boosted DSH payments, established new interoperability rules for prior authorization, and confirmed the launch of a controversial ...

Recently, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued all the fiscal year (FY) 2026 Medicare final regulations for different facility types: hospice facilities, inpatient psychiatric ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule (CMS-0057-F) sets a new standard for how payers exchange data and respond to authorization ...

A new CMS final rule increases IPPS payment rates by 2.6% for 2026 and finalizes several key policy changes, including the launch of a mandatory bundled payment model, new e-prescribing standards, and ...

Healthcare and technology groups want Medicare Advantage plans included in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' proposed rule to expand access to health information and improve the prior ...

After the 2026 SNF PPS proposed pay rule was unveiled in April and revealed an underwhelming Medicare pay hike and a broad range of other issues, regulators could have expected a wide range of ...

The American Hospital Association provides comment on the “Health Data, Technology and Interoperability: ASTP/ONC Deregulatory Actions to Unleash Prosperity” (HTI-5) proposed rule.

This past month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology put out a request ...

Arpan Saxena is the COO/CIO at basys.ai (based out of Harvard University), a leading healthcare AI solutions company. When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its Prior ...

The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services has finalized a series of new rules related to the use of technology for electronic prescribing and prior authorization. In the rules, the Assistant ...