Reprinted with AIS Health permission from the 4/4/24 issue of Radar on Medicare Advantage Thanks to a final rule published just one year ago, Medicare Advantage plans as of Jan. 1 were expected to meet new constraints when it comes to applying their utilization management (UM) policies, including
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Reprinted with AIS Health permission from the 2/1/24 issue of Radar on Medicare Advantage 2024 Medicare Advantage Trends For our annual series of outlook stories on the year ahead in Medicare Advantage, AIS Health, a division of MMIT, asked multiple experts what they view as MA organizations’ “keys
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Reprinted with AIS Health permission from the 1/4/24 issue of Radar on Medicare Advantage 2024 Medicare Advantage Outlook For our annual series of outlook stories on the year ahead in Medicare Advantage, AIS Health, a division of MMIT, spoke with more than a dozen industry experts on the
Read More →Reprinted with AIS Health permission from the Oct. 5 issue of Radar on Medicare Advantage As the 2024 Annual Election Period approaches, Medicare Advantage insurers that began marketing on Oct. 1 have been touting service area expansions and/or the robust provider networks attached to their plans. But
Read More →Medicare Advantage organizations may not have gotten the outcome they were hoping for in CMS’s recently finalized Risk Adjustment Data Validation rule, but industry experts say they weren’t surprised by the position CMS ultimately took after years of pressure to close out RADV audits and recover identified
Read More →In a sweeping proposed rule for the 2024 contract year, CMS last month took a strong stance on multiple aspects of the Medicare Advantage program, from misleading marketing and prior authorization to quality gains incentivized by the Star Ratings. As plans digest the many changes proposed in
Read More →Exceeding 950 pages in its initial prepublication version, CMS’s most recent rule proposing policy and technical changes for contract year 2024 is the Biden administration’s most complicated and sweeping Medicare Advantage and Part D rule to date. Following a comprehensive request for information issued last summer on
Read More →Building on previous interoperability regulations, CMS on Dec. 13 published a proposed rule that seeks to improve the efficiency and transparency of prior authorization processes in Medicare Advantage and other federally funded health care programs. Industry experts say the rule should ultimately speed access to care, potentially
Read More →Medicare Advantage is likely to make up more than half of total Medicare enrollment in 2023 as open enrollment gears up this week. As enrollment surges, plans are facing increased scrutiny over risk adjustment practices, with regulators turning up the heat on payments in the program. Plus,
Read More →After observing a high volume of marketing-related complaints that the federal government believes are driven by the actions of third-party marketing organizations (TPMOs), CMS this month is implementing several new requirements aimed at protecting Medicare beneficiaries as they compare coverage options during the 2023 Annual Election Period
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