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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is a federal agency that administers the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Learn about its mission, programs, and how it impacts healthcare in the United States. We report on the latest CMS news, policy changes, and regulations that affect health care providers, patients, and payers.

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Business Brittany Trang

STAT Plus: Medicare announces loan program to aid providers affected by Change cyberattack

Health tech Mario Aguilar

STAT Plus: Medicare is a tricky market for telehealth companies. Why is Talkspace betting on it?

First Opinion Samyukta Mullangi

New federal guidance is hurting cancer patients, especially those in rural areas

Exclusive Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Medical device lobby says it’s tired of waiting on Medicare to cover breakthrough devices

Politics Nicholas Florko

STAT Plus: Why won’t Medicare deliver food to sick seniors, if it could get them healthy?

First Opinion Wendell Potter and Philip Verhoef

Medicare Advantage is bad for patients and bad for investors

D.C. Diagnosis Rachel Cohrs

Colorado could cap payments for Amgen’s Enbrel

D.C. Diagnosis Sarah Owermohle

Should ACA plans cover weight loss drugs?

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Health Care Inc. Bob Herman

Medicare Advantage’s 33 million club

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Medicare Advantage enrollment races past 33 million

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D.C. Diagnosis Rachel Cohrs

Long Covid research gets a big-time funding boost

Politics Rachel Cohrs

STAT Plus: Lawmakers eye partial increase for Medicare doctor pay

Politics Bob Herman and Casey Ross

STAT Plus: Senate Democrats push for stronger rules around AI in Medicare Advantage

Business Casey Ross and Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Government warns Medicare Advantage insurers not to deny care based on AI

Hospitals Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: Medicare threatens to pull funding from HCA’s embattled Mission Hospital

D.C. Diagnosis Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: CDC and social media: The new misinformation war

Insurance Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: Cano Health’s downfall offers a warning for Medicare Advantage

Politics Rachel Cohrs

STAT Plus: The lone Democrat willing to weaken Medicare’s power to negotiate drug prices

Health Care Inc. Bob Herman

Let the Medicare Advantage lobbying begin

Hospitals Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: New Medicare Advantage rule is boon for providers, drag on insurers

First Opinion Diana Zuckerman

Medicare has different standards than the FDA. That’s how it should be

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Medicare Advantage insurers face slight proposed cut to 2025 payments

Insurance Bob Herman

Cigna to sell Medicare Advantage plans to Blue Cross Blue Shield insurer for $3.3 billion

Health Care Inc. Bob Herman

CVS to Oklahoma: Let us steer people to our own pharmacies

Insurance Brittany Trang

STAT Plus: Biden changes will force health insurers to speed up and get more specific if they want to deny care

Politics John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: Copay coupons for some drugs must count toward deductibles, after Biden court move

First Opinion Jeff Goldsmith

The decline and fall of elite multispecialty medical groups

D.C. Diagnosis Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: Health care negotiations on Capitol Hill are clear as mud

D.C. Diagnosis Sarah Owermohle

Anthony Fauci talked Covid in Congress in a nine-hour, closed-door grilling — and that was just day one