CMS billing rules create a wide gap between the services trainees provide and the revenue hospitals can capture for those services. Competency-based billing could help close this gap.
Posted: March 7, 2026, 12:00 am
The CMS Innovation Center is approaching the next negotiation cycle for the CGT Access Model. Several considerations will guide the selection of future candidate diseases and potential new model designs.
Posted: March 7, 2026, 12:00 am
The AHEAD model was intended to slow health care cost growth, improve population health, and advance health equity. But under the new administration, its focus has shifted from equity to efficiency.
Posted: March 5, 2026, 12:00 am
Medical credit cards have emerged as a popular financing tool for patients seeking care they might otherwise be unable to afford. But these cards may ultimately increase financial burdens on patients.
Posted: March 5, 2026, 12:00 am
Private equity firms have gained increasing control of U.S. health care infrastructure. Along with other potential consequences, this growth threatens to undermine progress in health equity.
Posted: March 5, 2026, 12:00 am
NOS host Lisa Rosenbaum and her guests discuss the extent to which online influencers and AI could someday substitute for trustworthy, caring, broad-spectrum family doctors.
Posted: February 26, 2026, 12:00 am
Trainees’ paths to safe, independent practice are variable. Artificial intelligence could help accelerate implementation of competency-based medical education to support individualized development.
Posted: February 26, 2026, 12:00 am
Medicare will achieve greater savings on the 15 drugs in its second round of price negotiations than it did in the first round. Despite new challenges, the effort should continue to pay growing dividends.
Posted: February 26, 2026, 12:00 am
Recent FDA actions related to leucovorin have caused confusion. There is still a lack of scientific evidence establishing that the drug is a safe and effective treatment for autism.
Posted: February 26, 2026, 12:00 am
When a physician’s own incidental finding sends her down a long and winding path to find answers, she finds herself overcome with worry — but also, eventually, a new appreciation for life.
Posted: February 26, 2026, 12:00 am
Physicians throughout Minnesota bear witness to the devastation that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is wreaking. They implore physicians everywhere to raise their voices.
Posted: February 26, 2026, 12:00 am
In Latin America, though overall smoking rates have declined, nondaily and low-intensity smoking are increasingly common, and tobacco-cessation resources remain underdeveloped in many countries.
Posted: February 19, 2026, 12:00 am
Both viral and host factors have contributed to the intensity of influenza activity during the 2025–2026 season. Some of these factors can be managed, whereas others are largely beyond human control.
Posted: February 19, 2026, 12:00 am
This Sounding Board announces a new FDA policy that the default requirement for FDA approvals will be one robust pivotal trial plus confirmatory evidence, rather than two trials.
Posted: February 19, 2026, 12:00 am
Complex and fragmented research regulations can delay studies without improving participant protection. Better federal coordination, clearer guidance, smarter single IRB use, and institutional reforms may streamline oversight.
Posted: February 12, 2026, 12:00 am
CMS’s Digital Health Ecosystem initiative should help boost health care interoperability efforts. But remaining fundamental economic and policy barriers to interoperability also need to be tackled.
Posted: February 12, 2026, 12:00 am
Recent court decisions have treated statements in drug labels as evidence of patent infringement by generic-drug manufacturers. The Supreme Court has an opportunity to address this trend.
Posted: February 12, 2026, 12:00 am
Beyond being a rare federal program focused on stabilizing rural health care services, the Rural Health Transformation Program represents a vehicle for advancing the administration’s health priorities.
Posted: February 12, 2026, 12:00 am
When a mother cites the CDC as her source of dangerous misinformation about vaccines, her child’s pediatrician struggles: how hard can a doctor push back without destroying the trust built over a lifetime?
Posted: February 12, 2026, 12:00 am
U.S. clinicians, health systems, and policymakers should recognize immigration enforcement as a social determinant of health currently implicated in a public health crisis and act accordingly.
Posted: February 11, 2026, 12:00 am
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