Latest Medicare News
Fri 03 May 2024
CMS Roundup (May. 3, 2024)
Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) provides an at-a-glance summary of news from around the agency.CMS Extends MassHealth Demonstration Promoting Affordable Coverage, Continuous Eligibility to Additional Populations, and Health-Related Social Needs Services
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Fri 03 May 2024
Biden-Harris Administration Finalizes Policies to Increase Access to Health Coverage for DACA Recipients
As part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s ongoing commitment to ensuring affordable, quality health care for all, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), finalized a rule that will expand access to health care for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients. Today’s rule ensures DACA recipients will no longer be exclude...
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Fri 03 May 2024
HHS Releases New Data Showing Over 10 million People with Medicare Received a Free Vaccine Because of the President’s Inflation Reduction Act; Releases Draft Guidance for the Second Cycle of Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program
Over 10 million people with Part D Medicare received a free vaccine in 2023 thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act, up from just 3 million in 2021.
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Fri 03 May 2024
HHS Final Rule Clarifying the Eligibility of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Recipients and Certain Other Noncitizens
Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), is publishing a final rule to modify the definition of “lawfully present” applicable to eligibility for enrollment in a Qualified Health Plan (QHP) through the Health Insurance Marketplace and a Basic Health Program (BHP). With this modification, DACA recipients will no longer be excluded from...
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Fri 03 May 2024
CMS Statement on Proposed Local Coverage Determination (LCD) for Skin Substitute Grafts/Cellular and Tissue-Based Products for the Treatment of Diabetic Foot Ulcers and Venous Leg Ulcers
CMS is aware that on April 25, 2024, the Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) released a proposed Local Coverage Determination (LCD) to provide appropriate coverage for skin substitute grafts used for chronic non-healing diabetic foot and venous leg ulcers.
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