The government shutdown fight brought America’s outrageous health care costs back to the top of the news cycle. One of the fastest, most straightforward steps Washington can take to lower them ...

The problem is not that price transparency itself has failed, but rather that policy makers have focused their efforts on the wrong place. Over the past 2 decades, American policy makers have invested ...

This issue of Health Affairs covers price transparency, Medicare, Medicaid, and many other topics, including several entries in our ongoing series, The Practice Of Medicine, Age-Friendly Health, and ...

Starting in 2026, Medicare Advantage enrollees will face new referral requirements and expanded public access to provider network data, while hospitals must meet updated price transparency rules.

The government shutdown fight has brought America’s outrageous healthcare costs back to the top of the news cycle. One of the fastest, most straightforward steps Washington can take to lower them ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are required to update and publish payment policies and rates for hospital outpatient departments and ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) annually. In ...

Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) and other House Democrats on Wednesday sent a letter to Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), seeking to find out more information ...

CMS Updates Drug Pricing Dashboard, Calls for Affordable and Accessible Pharmaceuticals As the rising prices of pharmaceuticals continue to hurt Americans' pockets, the US Centers for Medicare & ...

On November 21, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published the CY 2026 Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center Final Rule (the Rule), which ...

CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz explains the new "TrumpRx" website, giving discounts to the uninsured on some prescription drugs, on CNN on Sunday morning: DANA BASH, CNN: I do want to start with ...