Lorraine Roberte is an insurance writer for Investopedia. As a personal finance writer, her expertise includes money management and insurance-related topics. She has written hundreds of reviews of ...

CMS has awarded four contracts for companies to help establish a national healthcare provider directory. “The National Provider Directory project, part of the administration’s Make Health Tech Great ...

Seniors shopping between Medicare Advantage plans will soon have clearer data about payers’ provider networks under a rule the CMS finalized Thursday. Regulators are requiring MA plans to directly ...

Tammy Hawes is CEO and Founder of Virsys12, a healthcare technology company focused on Provider Lifecycle Network Management automation/AI. Healthcare executives are pouring billions into digital ...

Republican efforts to restrict taxes on hospitals, health plans, and other providers that states use to help fund their Medicaid programs could strip them of tens of billions of dollars. The move ...

Rural hospitals across the U.S. — many already hanging by a thread — could take a serious hit if a proposed Medicaid cut in the Senate’s domestic spending bill is signed into law. The provision, ...

A startling milestone has been reached in Florida's war against the invasive Burmese pythons eating their way across the Everglades. The Conservancy of Southwest Florida reports it has captured and ...

Cierra was an associate writer for CNET's broadband team, covering all things home internet. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington with a master's degree. Cierra is ...

Inaccurate provider data is leading to a hidden crisis in the healthcare field — one that threatens patients’ access to timely care, according to Sarah Ahmad, CEO of the Council for Affordable Quality ...

A Medicare nonparticipating provider is a healthcare professional, facility, or supplier that doesn’t accept Medicare assignment in all cases and may charge more than the Medicare-approved amount for ...

The proposal threatens states’ ability to fund state supplemental payment programs for Medicaid, which providers rely on as a boost for revenues. Provider taxes have been around in some form since the ...