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Health Insurance Medicare Advantage Final Rules

Stotler Hayes Group, LLC

Medicare Advantage Plans Onerous Prior Authorizations Requirements & Negative Impacts on Skilled Nursing Facilities

Traditional Medicare (Parts A and B) and Medicare Advantage (Part C, including additional vision, dental, and hearing benefits) plans aim to provide comprehensive medical benefits to American Seniors and adults with...more

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Outlook for Medicare Advantage Under the Trump Administration

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Medicare Advantage (MA), the private insurance option under Medicare, is one of many policy areas that will garner great attention in 2025 and beyond under the incoming Trump Administration. We recently released our 2025...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

2025 Medicare Final Rule Highlights

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CMS issued its Final Rule for the 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule in November. Originally published in the Allegheny County Medical Society (ACMS) Bulletin - December 2024....more

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The ACA 1557 Final Regulations: Plans and Plan Sponsors as Covered Entities

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In a recent On the Subject (available here), we reported on the impact of the final rule (final rule) interpreting Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on self-funded group health plans that contract with licensed...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

CMS Publishes Final Rule on Medicare Advantage Agent Broker Compensation

On April 4, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published its Final Rule amending the existing Medicare Advantage (“MA”) agent broker compensation regulations. The Final Rule has significant...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Holland & Knight Health Dose: March 5, 2024

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Holland & Knight Health Dose is an in-depth weekly dose of legislative and regulatory insights to keep stakeholders abreast of happenings in Washington, D.C., impacting the health sector. ...more

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2024 Outlook: Behavioral Health Trends

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Healthcare systems are facing significant challenges in recruiting and retaining talent within the burgeoning field of behavioral health services, primarily due to competition from telehealth providers and inconsistent...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

[Event] 2nd Annual Legal, Regulatory and Compliance Summit on Medicare Advantage - November 2nd - 3rd, Nashville, TN

Hosted by American Conference Institute, the 2nd Annual Legal, Regulatory and Compliance Summit on Medicare Advantage returns for another exciting year with curated programming that will address the latest oversight and...more

Stevens & Lee

CMS Final Rule: Medicare Advantage Plans Subject to Two-Midnight Coverage Condition

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On June 5, 2023, CMS’s Final Rule regarding, among other things, “Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage Program” will become effective – refer to the CMS Fact Sheet and the Final Rule as published in the Federal...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

HHS Finalizes Payment Rates and Policies for the 2024 Medicare Advantage Program

On March 31, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), announced the finalized capitation rates and payment policies for the 2024 Medicare...more

Groom Law Group, Chartered

CMS Charts the Future of Medicare Advantage and Part D in 2024

CMS published the Calendar Year (“CY”) 2024 Medicare Advantage (“MA”) Capitation Rates and Part C and Part D Payment Policies (“Rate Announcement“) on March 31 and, five days later, issued the MA and Part D final rule for...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

MA Final Rule: CMS Requires Two-Midnight Rule, Puts Limits on Internal Coverage Criteria

In what passes for neon lights in the regulatory world, CMS said Medicare Advantage (MA) plans must follow the two-midnight rule, its case-by-case exception and the inpatient-only (IPO) list, according to the final 2024 rule...more

Groom Law Group, Chartered

CMS Medicare Advantage RADV Final Rule: No Fee-For-Service Adjuster, May Extrapolate Audit Findings Beginning with PY 2018

More than four years after it was proposed, on February 1, 2023 the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published the long-awaited risk adjustment data validation (RADV) Final Rule (Final Rule) that will affect...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

The RADV Final Rule and Advance Notice of CY 2024 Capitation Rates: Provider Considerations

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) was very busy last week! On Jan. 30, CMS issued its long-awaited Risk Adjustment Data Validation (RADV) Final Rule....more

Ballard Spahr LLP

CMS Releases Final Rule for Risk Adjustment Data Validation Audit Methodology

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On January 30, 2023, CMS posted for inspection a final rule describing its Risk Adjustment Data Validation audit methodology (the Final RADV Rule). As we have discussed in prior alerts, the finalization of the RADV Rule,...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

CMS Heightens Oversight of TPMO Marketing Programs, Restricts TV Advertisements

In May, we discussed the final rule on Contract Year 2023 Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage and Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Programs (the “Final Rule”) issued by the Centers for Medicare and...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Expansion of Medicare Advantage Supplemental Benefits: A New World of Opportunities for Providers

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Hospitals, health systems, provider groups, and residential and community-based long-term care providers (collectively, “Providers”) should revisit their relationships with Medicare Advantage plans (“MA Plans”) in light of...more

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