Tuesday, November 25, 2025

CMS Issues "Request for Information" - Strategic Directions for Medicare Advantage

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 CMS has issued its CY2027 proposed rule for Medicare Advantage.  It includes a "request for information" about future strategic d...

Big News: FDA to Down-Classify Many Companion Diagnostics as Class II (510k)

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Last year, when FDA was sparring with stakeholders and courts over its LDT regulations, FDA promised to downclassify many types of diagnosti...

Bipartisan Policy Center and Medicare: They Can't Stop Writing

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I ran across five recent documents from the Bipartisan Policy Center on Medicare reform.   June 2025 Strengthening primary care: Medicare ph...

CMS Issues Final Lab Prices for CY2026

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On November 25, 2025, CMS issued final lab test prices for new tests for CY2026. ### They regularly come out during Thanksgiving week.   It...
Monday, November 24, 2025

Fixing the Shrinking RVU: Insights Into the Debates

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 The real-dollar value of the Medicare RVU, on which all physician payments are based, and many outpatient technical services, has been shri...
Sunday, November 23, 2025

Head of CMMI - New Rules for CMMI

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CMMI is Medicare's Center for Innovation , created by the 2010 Affordable Care Act and having a mixed history, probably a weak history, ...
Friday, November 21, 2025

LANCET Editor Tries to Put Medical AI Into Perspective; so AI Responds

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Richard Horton has been editor of LANCET since 1995, in his mid-thirties.   This fall, he writes a pair of op ed on AI as, well, "A res...