DALLAS — I know for some people, Medicare open enrollment time (which is happening now) can seem like a dreaded medical procedure: You know you need to get it done, but you don’t really want to do it.

The federal government is moving forward with a long-planned effort to eliminate a list of medical procedures limited to inpatient facilities, per a 2026 hospital payment rule finalized Friday. The ...

Pendergrast is an anesthesiology resident physician at the University of Michigan. The 1 in 5 Americans suffering from chronic pain may soon lose access to evidence-based interventions that have ...

A plan to phase out a list of procedures that can be performed only on an inpatient basis has major implications for skilled nursing coverage post-surgery, a major aging services advocacy group is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In June of this year, CMS announced that it would be launching the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction (WISeR) Model, ...

A pilot program in six states will use a tactic employed by private insurers that has been heavily criticized for delaying and denying medical care. By Reed Abelson and Teddy Rosenbluth Like millions ...

The way cardiovascular care is delivered in the US is changing rapidly. Procedures once limited to hospitals are now increasingly performed in outpatient clinics such as ambulatory surgery centers and ...

Tara Bannow covers hospitals, providers, and insurers. You can reach Tara on Signal at tarabannow.70. The Trump administration is opening the floodgates for more surgeries to be done in outpatient ...

Khloe Kardashian is sharing just how she got that revenge body. After Dr. Jonny Betteridge—a viral doctor with an aesthetics clinic in London—shared a video alleging that Khloe may have undergone a ...

Some gynecological procedures can be incredibly painful, and now medical experts are acknowledging the need for change. Women's pain has often been dismissed by doctors, an occurrence that's ...

Plastic surgery is on the rise, with some procedures becoming so common and flawlessly handled among film stars and influencers that they are often undetectable—but is there a limit to what surgeries ...