CMS has finalized a 2.6% payment increase for inpatient services, boosted DSH payments, established new interoperability rules for prior authorization, and confirmed the launch of a controversial ...

The WEDI baseline survey shows many providers and payers have yet to start implementing the requirements of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Advancing Interoperability and Improving ...

Healthcare and technology groups want Medicare Advantage plans included in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' proposed rule to expand access to health information and improve the prior ...

CMS has proposed extending its interoperability and prior authorization requirements to include prescription drugs, aiming to speed approvals, improve transparency, and standardize processes across ...

As of February, a share of payers and providers had not yet started working toward the application programming interface requirements established by CMS’ interoperability and prior authorization final ...

The AHA provided comments June 15 to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on its proposed rule establishing ...

McDermott+ is pleased to bring you Regs & Eggs, a weekly Regulatory Affairs blog by Jeffrey Davis. November 4, 2025 – Trick or treat! On Halloween evening, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ...

The proposed rule on interoperability standards and prior authorization could lead to significant change in CMS. Prior authorization has become one of the clearest points where administrative ...

This past month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology put out a request ...

CMS published a final rule June 12 to increase oversight of the nine accrediting organizations that survey more than 9,000 healthcare organizations annually for compliance with federal health and ...