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 ...

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 ...

Kennedy said in a press release about the NIH-CMS partnership that the arrangement is meant “to uncover the root causes of autism and other chronic diseases.” “We’re pulling back the curtain—with full ...

Medicaid, the joint federal-state health insurance program that covers about one-in-five Americans, may be in for some of the biggest changes in its 60-year history. The tax, spending and policy bill ...

The personal information of more than 100,000 Medicare recipients may have been compromised in a recent "data incident," the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said June 30. As a result, some ...

Healthcare data continues to be a top target for cybercriminals. In June alone, two major breaches compromised over 13 million patient records. Now, a newly confirmed Medicare data breach has affected ...