A federal judge in California has ruled that U.S. immigration authorities can access limited personal information from the ...

Medicaid and CHIP cover almost half of American children. A new CMS policy means we will know less about their health.

Groundbreaking research more than a decade ago showed that almost one-fifth of people enrolled in Medicare were being readmitted within 30 days after being discharged from the hospital, harming ...

Enrollment in Medicare Advantage (MA) is nearing 31.2 million following the annual enrollment period, about half of the total Medicare population, according to recent data from the Biden ...

The rule aims to free data from silos to promote interoperability between payers and providers. On July 1, a final rule by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) takes effect, and aims to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ge Bai is professor of accounting & health policy at Johns Hopkins. The Medicare and Medicaid programs cover more than 40% of ...

CMS said Friday it plans to remove reporting about unsubstantiated complaints from Nursing Home Care Compare next month.

A technology change is raising concerns about data access and worker privacy as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services transitions to a new, more secure data-reporting process. The agency has ...

The Biden administration is pushing to resolve big gaps in the quality and accuracy of data on health equity as it installs new requirements for payers and providers. The Centers for Medicare & ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are attempting to identify a central data source across government for collecting information on the most vulnerable populations to ensure health equity.

Nearly 1 million Medicare beneficiaries have recently learned that their personal information may have been compromised in a data breach last year. This incident comes on the heels of another incident ...