Care payment models CMS introduced in 2025 include six new initiatives targeting drug pricing, chronic disease, and specialty care payments.

CMS has launched the BALANCE Model, a five-year test to lower costs & expand Medicare access to GLP-1 weight-loss drugs while ...

CMS on Sept. 2 unveiled policy and operational updates to the Achieving Healthcare Efficiency through Accountable Design Model, a state total cost of care initiative launched in 2023 to curb spending, ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is terminating the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) model at the end of 2025 due to what it called the model's "substantial and ...

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) will stop certain payment models by the end of the year. Without going into specifics initially, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' ...

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Maryland became the first state on Friday to join a federal program designed to improve health care quality and equity while lowering costs for all health care payers, including Medicare, Medicaid and ...

In October, CMS announced the launch of a new prior authorization demonstration that would introduce new requirements for select services. This comes just four months after news of an agreement ...

A look at Western Maryland Hospital Center in Washington County. (File photo by Hannah Gaskill/Maryland Matters) The Trump administration has signaled an interest in reining in Maryland’s ability to ...

As Maryland prepares to transition to a federal health care model next year, some are raising alarms that a unique system that has given the state control over Medicare rates for decades could come to ...