Humana (HUM) backs reforms on extra Medicare Advantage payments from home visits and chart review. Read more here.

The changes would limit how insurers add patient diagnoses that trigger lucrative extra payments.

Medicare Advantage One leading proposal for Senate Republicans is clamping down on private Medicare Advantage insurers to make it harder to game the federal subsidy system by exaggerating the health ...

Members of Congress reintroduced the Medicare Economic Security Solutions Act in Washington, D.C., proposing sweeping reforms ...

Going forward, the real issue is whether Congress will adopt bold or timid Medicare payment reforms. Lawmakers could merely tweak Medicare’s complex payment formula, or they could lay the ...

Physician payment reform has once again worked its way onto ... legislative activity has focused on discrete reforms to the Medicare physician fee schedule that attempt to improve the fee-for ...

There needs to be a systematic reform that makes Medicare payment rational, predictable and sustainable," Scott said. There are some provisions in the Medicare PFS that provider groups cheered ...

It is well past time for Congress to reform Medicare physician payments. Current law is not only failing the hundreds of thousands of doctors who participate in the giant program, but also the ...

A new chapter at the Grand Slams as an Australian player has left Daria Kasatkina feeling the love like never before after the Russian-born world number 17 took the bold decision to switch ...

KFF laid out five things to know about site-neutral payment reforms in a June 14 article: 1. Medicare pays more for procedures and services in hospital outpatient departments than ASCs or physician ...

The company is willing to back new limits on lucrative payments insurers can gain from diagnoses recorded by nurse ...