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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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Health Tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Key takeaways from AdvaMed, the world’s largest medical device conference

Health Care Inc. Bob Herman

The stability of $0 premiums in Medicare Advantage

Politics John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: Obama-era Medicare innovation initiative doesn’t save money after all

D.C. Diagnosis Rachel Cohrs

STAT Plus: Did you have Obamacare on your GOP debate bingo card?

Politics John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: Senate committee chair tries to spark negotiations to keep Medicare solvent

Insurance Simar Bajaj

STAT Plus: Medicare Advantage plans for dual-eligible enrollees set to get Senate scrutiny

Politics Rachel Cohrs

STAT Plus: Bernie Sanders, Bill Cassidy clash over proposal to increase primary care doctors, nurses

First Opinion Mariana Socal

How the drug price negotiation program could affect Medicare Part D beneficiaries

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D.C. Diagnosis Sarah Owermohle

Setting the September calendar in health care

First Opinion Deepti Babu

Medicare beneficiaries deserve access to genetic counselors

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Hospitals Tara Bannow and Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Medicare slashes safety net hospital payments on estimate that more people have insurance

First Opinion Maria W. Steenland, Rachel E. Fabi and Laura R. Wherry

Many immigrants are ineligible for important U.S. maternal health initiatives

First Opinion Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein

Enough with the health care policy patchwork. It’s time for universal insurance

First Opinion Tony Coelho

I introduced the ADA 35 years ago. Now Congress needs to act to ban a practice that devalues disabled lives

Politics John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: Hospitals struggle to make money on CAR-T cancer therapies, but their fortunes may change

Exclusive Rachel Cohrs

STAT Plus: Key House panel plots a new health care package — complicating the chamber’s agenda

Politics Rachel Cohrs, Sarah Owermohle and John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: Medicare details the structure of its new drug price negotiation program

First Opinion Lisa D. T. Rice

CMS must protect access to the ‘gold standard of breast reconstruction’

Politics John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: Protesters slam health insurance lobby for Medicare Advantage coverage restrictions

First Opinion Adam Shyevitch

CMS change could slow the crucial growth of ‘food as medicine’

First Opinion Aaron Birnbaum and Matthew Makansi

The staggering financial burden of giving birth — even with insurance

Politics Brittany Trang

STAT Plus: Congress explores changes to the way Medicare pays doctors

Politics Rachel Cohrs

STAT Plus: The strategy behind the pharmaceutical industry’s flurry of lawsuits challenging drug pricing reform

Politics Rachel Cohrs

STAT Plus: How drug pricing reforms are affecting Bayer’s investments

First Opinion Jason Karlawish

The FDA needs a risk evaluation and mitigation strategy for Alzheimer’s drug lecanemab

First Opinion Myechia Minter-Jordan

Medicaid adult dental benefits are shamefully — and dangerously — inadequate in most states

Health Elaine Chen

STAT Plus: Transplant patients say new Medicare guidance puts their donated organs at risk

Politics Rachel Cohrs

STAT Plus: Chamber of Commerce tries new legal arguments to challenge Medicare drug-price negotiation

Politics Rachel Cohrs

STAT Plus: Democrats blast Biden administration over Alzheimer’s drug plans