Tag: Healthcare Advisory Committee
In brief: CMS modernizes, hospital-at-home scales, fraud dragnet widens
March 30, 2026HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have announced the members of a Healthcare Advisory Committee to provide advice on improving, strengthening and modernizing health care.
The committee will advise HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz on ways to improve how care is financed and delivered across Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program and the...
HHS, CMS name experts tapped to improve, modernize health care system
March 30, 2026HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have announced the members of the Healthcare Advisory Committee to provide advice on improving, strengthening and modernizing health care.
The committee will advise HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz on ways to improve how care is financed and delivered across Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program and the...
In brief: CMS cooks up fraud competition, forms Healthcare Advisory Committee
August 27, 2025HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – CMS has announced a “Crushing Fraud Chili Cook-Off Competition,” a market-based research challenge aimed at harnessing artificial intelligence, specifically machine learning models, to detect anomalies and trends in Medicare claims data.
The challenge also seeks innovative, scalable technologies that reduce labor-intensive processes while keeping humans meaningfully in the loop to ensure effective oversight and interoperability, CMS says.
The challenge...