A CMS advisory panel is opposing a policy that would cut payments by 22.5 percent for drugs providers purchasing under the 340B drug discount program, according to Health Leaders Media. As it ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The committee was asked to advise CMS on which outcomes should be included in studies of technologies for HF ...

CMS will hold off on updating the controversial hospital star ratings pending a review from an expert panel, an agency spokesperson confirmed to Healthcare Dive on Friday. CMS is convening a technical ...

A Charlotte-Mecklenburg panel created to review book challenges voted Tuesday to remove one challenged book from all schools and keep two others on high school shelves. The one removed, “A Court of ...

The upshot is that the CMS committee backed Provenge for on-label use, but not for use in patients whose cancer hasn't progressed. Next, the agency will have to consider the panel's advice--and its ...

A panel discussion highlighted a new pathway that allows Medicare to embrace new tools and pay for them while gathering the evidence needed to ensure the technology is safe and appropriate for an ...

The Medicare Evidence Development and Coverage Advisory Committee (MEDCAC) took a tepid step toward keeping and/or possibly discarding procedural volume requirements for new and continuing ...

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools has a new panel to review challenged books. At its first meeting Monday, it upheld Ardrey Kell High School’s decision to keep two young-adult novels on its library ...