Latest Medicare News
Fri 16 May 2025
ICYMI: Trump Leadership: If You Want Welfare and Can Work, You Must
As Originally Published in the New York Times Opinion by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mehmet Oz, Brooke Rollins, & Scott TurnerAmerica’s welfare programs were created with a noble purpose: to help those who needed them most — our seniors, individuals with disabilities, pregnant women and low-income families with children.
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Fri 16 May 2025
Making America Healthy Again: Innovation for Healthier Lives
By Abe Sutton, Director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation and Deputy Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesMaking America Healthy Again: Innovation for Healthier LivesTransforming our health system for prevention, patient empowerment, and competition
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Fri 16 May 2025
CMS Seeks Public Input on Improving Technology to Empower Medicare Beneficiaries
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is taking bold steps to modernize the nation’s digital health ecosystem with a focus on empowering Medicare beneficiaries through greater access to innovative health technologies. The agency, in partnership with the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ASTP/ONC), is seeking public input on ho...
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Fri 16 May 2025
CMS Releases Draft Guidance for the Third Cycle of Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program to Lower Drug Prices for American Patients
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is issuing draft guidance for public comment on the third cycle of negotiations under the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program (Negotiation Program). The draft guidance includes policies that will improve the transparency of the Negotiation Program, prioritize the selection of prescription drugs with high costs to the Medicare program, and minimize any negative imp...
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Fri 16 May 2025
Preserving Medicaid Funding for Vulnerable Populations - Closing a Health Care-Related Tax Loophole Proposed Rule
Section 1902(a)(2) of the Social Security Act (the Act) requires states to share the responsibility of financing the Medicaid program with the federal government, by providing at least 40 percent, depending on the state, of reimbursement for expenditures under the state plan. There are several ways states can finance the non-Federal share, including health care-related taxes under section 1903(w) of the Act. States have h...
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