CMS Modernizes Payment Accuracy & Significantly Cuts Spending Waste

On October 31,2 025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published this announcement about the modernization of payment accuracy and significantly cutting spending waste. It offers a high level overview of all actions implemented to advance primary care management through improved quality measures, reduces waste and unnecessary use of skin substitutes, and introduces a new payment model focused on improving care for chronic disease management. These include the CY 2026 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) final rule, reducing Medicare spending waste for skin substitutes, repurposing a previous risk assessment code to focus on essential patient behaviors, and an . . .