With Medicare enrollment approaching, clients and potential newcomers have an upgraded online tool to help them compare the various plans. For the first time in a decade, the Centers for Medicare & ...

Care Compare aims to give Medicare patients and family caregivers a user-friendly online tool to make informed decisions about healthcare based on location, cost, quality of care, volume of services, ...

Procedure Price Lookup provides Medicare patients with price differences for some surgical procedures in hospital outpatient and ambulatory surgery center care venues. The Centers for Medicare & ...

This week the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services launched Care Compare, a streamlined redesign of eight existing CMS healthcare compare tools available on Medicare.gov. Care Compare provides a ...

October 15 marked the start of another Medicare open enrollment period when Medicare’s roughly 60 million beneficiaries have the opportunity to make changes to their Medicare coverage. Beneficiaries ...

The federal government recently redesigned a digital tool that helps seniors navigate complicated Medicare choices, but consumer advocates say it’s malfunctioning with alarming frequency, offering ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has broadened the scope of the Opioid Prescribing Mapping Tool, which was first launched three years ago to give insights into Medicare Part D prescribing ...

Several plans under California’s new cost-saving Medicaid initiative have started using a new tool that’s pushing to create new pathways to transition residents away from skilled nursing facilities ...

Individual nursing homes’ COVID-19 vaccination rates are more subject to public comparisons thanks to a tool that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services unveiled this afternoon. The goal is to ...

For the first time since 2005, CMS redesigned its Medicare Plan Finder, which helps seniors compare Medicare plan choices. However, consumer advocates say the tool is riddled with inaccurate cost ...

CMS launched an Application Program Interface that makes it easier to share electronic data for MACRA’s Quality Payment Program. In October, CMS revealed the program’s website. The new API, called the ...

After releasing enormous amounts of raw physician payment data to the public last month, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has introduced a more consumer-friendly--but apparently incomplete ...