Berwick is a former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. He is a senior fellow for health policy and Ducas is the VP of health policy at the Center for American Progress.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has implemented prior authorization requirements for certain traditional ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced a prior authorization program pilot for original Medicare. The six-year voluntary Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction Model (WISeR ...

CMS has unveiled the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction model, a new Innovation Center initiative that will add prior authorization for some traditional fee-for-service Medicare services.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In June of this year, CMS announced that it would be launching the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction (WISeR) Model, ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced a new Innovation Center model aimed at helping ensure people with Original Medicare receive care. Through the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service ...

The lawmakers argue the CMS innovation center model, which will implement AI-backed prior authorization for some services in six states, will add red tape and limit access to care. The bill, called ...

Earlier this year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced an agreement with Medicare Advantage plans to lessen the use of prior authorization, but the agency also said it would ...

The CMS will soon make it more difficult for providers in six states to get reimbursed in Medicare for certain medical procedures it has deemed “low value,” but some stakeholders worry it could lead ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued a final rule that, for the first time, is requiring that Part D prescription drug plans support a new electronic prior authorization ...