The U.S. spent 7.2% more on healthcare in 2024. Most of the acceleration was because of greater use and intensity of medical ...

"One of the things we also learned about is that hospitals need other funding to make good use of these additional residency ...

Healthcare spending in the United States reached $5.3 trillion and increased 7.3% in 2024, according to a report published ...

On July 15, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released an Audit and Enforcement Report summarizing its annual Medicare Advantage (Part C) and Prescription Drug (Part D) program ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) no longer will require states to report childhood and adolescent immunization statuses as it explores “alternative immunization ...

In the letter, CMS announced that the Child and Adult Core Set of Health Quality Measures for Medicaid and the Children's ...

The nursing home industry has another weapon in its arsenal to fight against a pending federal staffing minimum regulation: A report the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services itself commissioned ...

A major consumer advocacy group is urging federal regulators to use newly expanded nursing home ownership data to block owners associated with other poorly performing facilities from obtaining ...

Continuing the development of equity scores, including refining the Health Equity Summary Score, is just one of the ways CMS aims to improve data and thereby advance a fairer health system, a new ...