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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...