Medicare telehealth flexibilities and the Acute Hospital Care at Home (AHCaH) program are teed up to receive multiyear extensions from Congress in its recently released funding package fo | In bill ...

House spending package includes hospital-at-home extensions through 2030 and telehealth policies through 2027, supporting ...

Lee Fleisher oversaw the development of the ‘hospital at home’ CMS waiver. Congress must update the program, he writes.

On May 15, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released a proposed rule, entitled “Preserving Medicaid Funding for Vulnerable Populations – Closing a Health Care-Related Tax ...

The Acute Hospital Care at Home Program could lapse on Jan. 30 without congressional action, creating significant ...

In ending the federal shutdown, Congress has extended telehealth and Hospital at Home waivers until the end of January 2026. For some providers, it’s difficult to celebrate. You can forgive healthcare ...

Explore Medicaid waivers, learn about eligibility criteria, and discover the various types, including home and ...

New CMS regulations are targeting so-called “mini-med” healthcare insurance plans, which cover routine and inexpensive healthcare needs but not catastrophic care, according to a Healthcare News report ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will restrict federal funds for state-based programs that go toward certain priorities like rural broadband and student loan repayments. The ...

CMS has issued blanket waivers (pdf) for hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, hospice and end-stage renal disease facilities in areas of New Jersey and New York affected by ...

Using section 1115 waivers, states can test different approaches to managing their Medicaid programs, in a bid to give states flexibility to improve the safety-net programs. The CMS has previously ...

Derek Caster, a 30-year-old Nebraskan with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, worries that proposed changes to how the State of ...