A former CMS official and a geriatric specialist say CMS, despite good intentions, missed the mark with its proposal to overhaul physician evaluation and management codes, and should pull the proposal and consider basing pay instead on the time physicians spend with beneficiaries.

FDA now will make it easier for companies to obtain the review documents the agency uses when it decides not to approve certain tobacco products based on a lack of evidence of substantial equivalence to a predicate tobacco product, the agency announced Tuesday (Aug. 14).

The Supreme Court is likely to consider several cases that involve key pillars of the U.S. health care system, a group of around 120 consumer and patient associations told Senate leaders in a letter urging them to carefully consider nominee Brett Kavanaugh's position on health care.

The New Mexico co-op health plan, which previously sued CMS on the grounds its budget-neutral risk adjustment payment methodology discriminated against the Affordable Care Act's smaller, co-op plans, on Monday sued the agency a second time for relying on the same methodology in an interim final rule that resumed the 2017 risk adjustment payments.