CMS issued multiple Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 final payment rules in late July 2026. These rules update payment rates, quality programs, and reporting timelines across acute care, long-term care, inpatient rehabilitation, skilled nursing, and hospice settings, generally taking effect on October 1, 2026.
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By Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez – As the Trump administration’s January deadline looms for states to enforce new Medicaid work requirements, some state lawmakers are turning the tables by pushing to publicly name the largest companies that have employees enrolled in the government program covering low-income and disabled people.
By Adam Wong – What started as a challenge to tame unwieldy single patient electronic health information (EHI) exports, often hundreds of pages long and hard to use, quickly became a nationwide surge of ingenuity, with nearly one hundred proposals pouring into the ONC EHIgnite Challenge.
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CMS is proposing transformational reforms to Medicare’s physician payment and value-based care programs that would expand accountable care, modernize physician payment, reduce administrative burden, and help shift the healthcare system’s focus from treating illness to preventing it.
By Shawn Spurlock and Liz Turi – We are excited to announce the 2026 standards approved by the National Coordinator through ONC’s Standards Version Advancement Process (SVAP). This year, we highlight two important groups of standards.
Currently the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid have announced the following open proposed rules, They include prospective payment rules, drug pricing, and drug negotiations. Proposed rules are open to comments once they have been printed in the federal registry.