The final rule updated the OPPS payment rate by 3.8% for calendar year 2023, which CMS based on the 4.1% projected hospital market basket percentage increase and adjusted for 0.3 percentage points for productivity. 

Physicians are now bracing for payment cuts after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published its final rule for the 2023 Physician Fee Schedule.

Medicare Advantage plans face little in the way of competition, and Medicare consumers are worse off for it, according to a new study from the American Medical Association.

Claire Ernst, director of government affairs for the Medical Group Management Association, talked to us about why extending the federal COVID-19 health emergency was so important for healthcare providers.

Three major healthcare groups are taking a stand against threats of violence over gender-affirming care by asking the Department of Justice to get involved. 

The American Hospital Association (AHA) has claimed victory after the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) must immediately halt payment cuts to the 340B Drug Pricing Program.

Validation and testing of all algorithms is needed to eliminate any biases in the data used to train the AI, according to Julius Bogdan, vice president and general manager of the HIMSS Digital Health Advisory Team for North America.

More than 120 medical societies have joined the AMA in a letter urging congressional leaders to enact long-term solutions to the systemic problems in the Medicare physician payment system and to address cuts that are going into effect in 2023.