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, ...

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 & ...

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 ...

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 ...

Though the tool is live on the site, CMS is still accepting feedback so that it can work out glitches and help make the resource more useful to patients and families. Q: CMS recently updated its Care ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...