Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Older adults participate in a fall prevention event last year in Fort Worth, Texas. Medicare, the government health insurance ...
Nursing homes are facing major new Medicare cost reporting changes that will require more intense data-collection efforts and enable additional regulatory oversight ...
The Medicare program effectively reduced insulin costs, improved adherence, and increased plan enrollment, benefiting both patients and the federal government. The initiative involved major insulin ...
A key goal of the Medicare Advantage program was to promote competition to improve health benefits and lower costs for seniors. However, a new report from KFF reveals that this may not be happening.
Many skilled nursing providers will soon be plunged into one of the most significant data submission changes in recent memory, with cost report season getting underway for the majority of providers ...
On September 2, 2025, OIG published the results of an audit that found obvious errors and/or inconsistencies with Medicare requirements in all 122 of the cost reports reviewed (i.e., cost reports for ...
Medicare Advantage, a private alternative to traditional Medicare, offers extra benefits and low monthly premiums. However, prior authorizations and claim denials complicate this increasingly popular ...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is proposing major changes to the cost report form that hospitals must submit annually to Medicare. According to the American Hospital Association, these ...
Indiana ranked 32nd out of the states and the District of Columbia. Its ranking includes data on access to care, quality of care, costs and affordability and population health. Its best ranking was ...