June 12th 2025
The Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2025 would add 14,000 Medicare-support training slots over seven years and codify rural residency support.
Reimbursement based on Medicare Economics Index will have a cost but ensure beneficiary access, commission says.
June 9th 2025
Physicians in supported, full-risk VBC models saw more new Traditional Medicare patients and kept panels open longer.
CMS Innovation Center leader outlines strategy for Making America Healthy Again.
June 5th 2025
Multi-cancer early detection screenings could get coverage, once approved by FDA.
The state of primary care: Where to start improvements
Primary Care Collaborative President and CEO Ann Greiner, MCP, discusses primary care in the U.S. health care system.
The state of primary care: A surprising finding
The state of primary care: Reasons why the system fails
The state of primary care: A tale of two cities in American health care
National Academy of Medicine Standing Committee on Primary Care: 12 Perspectives
A roundup of priorities, current trends, concerns and improvements in primary care around the United States.
HHS offers $25,000 buyout offers to majority of its 80,000 employees
The Department of Health and Human Services initiates voluntary separation incentives as part of federal cost-cutting measures.
House proposed budget would not restore Medicare reimbursement cuts to physicians
Restoring pay had majority support, but medical associations blast federal budget for ignoring that, jeopardizing patient access.
Americans borrowed $74 billion to cover health care costs last year
West Health and Gallup survey highlights growing concerns over medical debt across income and demographic groups.
MedPAC hammers out recommendation on doctors’ reimbursement in Medicare Physician Fee Schedule
Reimbursement based on Medicare Economic Index, updated cost data, settings all in play.
State medical associations plead to Congress: Don’t slash Medicaid
Doctors groups from 50 states join in missive to lawmakers.
House GOP Doctors Caucus throws support to restoring Medicare reimbursement
Physicians drumming up support to counter 2.83% cut that started in January.
Time ticks on telehealth as Trump, Congress mull health care policy
Legislation would extend flexibilities for Medicare; online petition gains 21,000 signatures of support.
Medicaid cuts explained: The history, changes and future of low-income health coverage
What physicians and patients need to know about Medicaid, its history, and Trump's plans to cut hundreds of billions from the program.
Trump plans for Medicaid come up as House subcommittee deliberates on PBM reform
Both sides support revising laws for PBM market, but Democrats and Republicans disagree on potential Medicaid changes.
Primary Care Scorecard: ‘We have to put primary care first’
A discussion about primary care with the president of the Milbank Memorial Fund.
Primary Care Scorecard: ‘More than enough money’ for good primary care
Primary Care Scorecard: Reforming graduate medical education
Saving primary care: Physician experts outline three approaches
NIHCM hosts online forum with prescriptions to help a sector of health care that is in crisis.
Primary Care Scorecard: Why primary care is losing physicians
Primary Care Scorecard: Medicare undervalues primary care
Primary Care Scorecard: A surprising finding
Primary Care Scorecard: How it started
Primary Care Scorecard: An introduction to the Milbank Memorial Fund
A discussion about primary care with the leader of the Milbank Memorial Fund.
Trump administration, Congress are working out details on telehealth flexibilities extension: ATA
Deadline is at end of March, but American Telemedicine Association notes telehealth has had strong bipartisan support.
Health care software exec pleads guilty to $1B in Medicare fraud
White House, HHS mull over new leadership for health care fraud enforcement.
‘Underfunded and undervalued’ — primary care dwindles as chronic disease booms
U.S. health care system gets failing grade for supporting primary care, say Milbank Memorial Fund and the Physicians Foundation.
CMS cuts funding to ACA Navigator program
Some enrollments were costing the government more than $3,000 per enrollee
Health care spending has wide variation, with Type 2 diabetes as top condition, according to major study
Research estimates health care spending by conditions, age, types of care, down to county level.
Leading physician groups call for the protection of Medicaid
Several leading physician groups issued a statement in support of the Medicaid program amid proposals to implement budget cuts, structural changes.
Medicare Drug Price Negotiations: Who really benefits?
Bargaining for widely used prescription drugs may save money for Medicare, but AAR wants seniors to see better prices at the pharmacy counter.