The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) described the effort late Monday in what's known as a proposed rule, the standard process by which federal agencies make significant changes. Two of the changes mark a dramatic departure for the agency,
In A Major Shift, Medicare Wants Power to Ban Harmful Prescribe
Medicare plans to arm itself with broad new powers to better control 2014 and potentially ban 2014 doctors engaged in fraudulent or harmful prescribing, following a series of articles by ProPublica detailing lax oversight in its drug program.
