Explore PECOS, the Provider Enrollment, Chain, and Ownership System, a streamlined online tool for healthcare providers to manage Medicare enrollments.

From CMS developments to device coverage, here are 10 payer updates spine surgeons should know headed into 2026: 1. Some fee-for-service spine procedures in traditional Medicare will have prior ...

To learn more about the new verification process, including what documents you will need to confirm your identity, keep ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued the final rule updating Medicare payment policies and rates for skilled nursing facilities under the Skilled Nursing Facility Prospective ...

As we near the turnover of administrations, Health Affairs Forefront offers a series of articles from leaders at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services providing their thoughts on the major ...

Medicare is a mess. Our federal politicians need to take a hard look at the big three entitlement programs, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, to find reforms to those programs so our nation does ...

Since the mid-2000s, the Medicare system has dramatically transformed. Enrollment in Medicare Advantage – the private alternative to the traditional Medicare program administered by the government – ...

Donald Berwick, MD, MPP, a pediatrician, was the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) during the Obama administration and is president emeritus and senior fellow at the ...

Avanos (AVNS) Medical announced that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued its final Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Medicare Ambulatory Surgical ...

Yet another glitch in Medicare system computers is starting to grab the attention of lawmakers. The latest problem involves Medicare taking extra money, sometimes for months in a row from ...

In any career, 25 years of dedicated work is a lot to let go of. In medicine, it amounts to hundreds of patient relationships, and the blood, sweat, and tears that go into starting and maintaining a ...

hat do you think of when you encounter the term “content management system” or “CMS”? I flashback to my first few office jobs where, upon first signing into their publishing systems, I was bombarded ...