Today the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Senate’s version of the budget reconciliation legislation, which includes a one-year 2.5% increase for the proposed 2026 Medicare Physician Fee ...

On Monday, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled its proposal for the 2026 home health payment rule. Providers and industry ...

The American Medical Association on Wednesday said it strongly supports the Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act of 2025 that would temporarily reverse the 2.83% payment cut to ...

The CMS is proposing to raise Medicare payments for inpatient hospital services by 2.4% next year — the lowest rate since 2019, and one that comes at a time of acute economic uncertainty for ...

The increase proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is significantly less than the 4.2% pay hike that occurred for this year and 4.0% the year before.

Medicare proposes 2.4% pay hike for inpatient hospitals next year The rate increase is the lowest since 2019. The American Hospital Association slammed it as inadequate.

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) will recommend Congress bump Medicare pay rates for hospitals in 2026. | The committee voted in favor of a draft recommendation to Congress that ...

Medicare Advantage plans get a 4.3% pay hike in a proposal released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Friday. If finalized, the proposed 2026 Advance Notice would result in a net ...

Commissioners on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission also largely supported recommendations to increase pay for physicians and other health professionals slightly less than inflation in 2026.

Members of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) seemed favorable Thursday to a proposed recommendation to Congress that Medicare should pay physicians based on the rate of medical ...

A bipartisan bill introduced in the House aims to provide much-needed relief for physicians by proposing a pay increase to replace scheduled Medicare reimbursement cuts set to take effect in 2025.

The usual stuff happened: Medicare intends to increase hospital outpatient payments by $5.2 billion in 2025, but the hospital industry whined it’s not enough. Medicare also is decreasing the all ...