The communications network used to transmit medical data for the U.S. government’s Medicare and Medicaid programs has security vulnerabilities that could expose patients’ medical data and other ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ge Bai is professor of accounting & health policy at Johns Hopkins. The Medicare and Medicaid programs cover more than 40% of ...

More than 100,000 individuals may have been impacted by a "data incident" where unauthorized Medicare beneficiary accounts were made using their information. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ...

Nearly 1 million Medicare beneficiaries have recently learned that their personal information may have been compromised in a data breach last year. This incident comes on the heels of another incident ...

Groundbreaking research more than a decade ago showed that almost one-fifth of people enrolled in Medicare were being readmitted within 30 days after being discharged from the hospital, harming ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. In January, the Biden administration pledged to increase ...

WASHINGTON -- The US Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday unveiled a pilot program for the National Institutes of Health to tap into Medicare and Medicaid data in its search for the ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday unveiled a pilot program for the National Institutes of Health to tap into Medicare and Medicaid data in its search for the root causes of ...

Just like in any other industry where ratings drive decisions, healthcare is no exception anymore. CMS star ratings influence consumers to choose healthcare plans that fit their needs. Higher ratings ...