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2024 Final Rule: CMS Announces More Changes to Medicare Advantage but Declines to Reform the “60 Day Rule”

Health Care Law Brief

On April 5, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released the 2024 Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug Benefit Programs Final Rule (“Final Rule”), which will be codified at 42 C.F.R. The SRFs include low-income subsidy, dual eligibility (meaning eligible for Medicare and Medicaid) and disability.

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Medicare Star Ratings 2021 Changes and Strategies to Address

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It has become evident by changes to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Star Rating formulas over the past several years—and especially with changes implemented for the 2021 Plan Year—that member experience and medication adherence is of utmost importance to the CMS. Medicare Star Ratings 2021 Changes.

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Medicaid and Health Equity: CalAIM’s Bold Experiment

Healthcare Law Blog

In December 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) approved the California Department of Health Care Services’ (DHCS’) request for a five-year extension of its Medicaid section 1115 demonstration and a five-year extension of its Medicaid managed care section 1915(b) waiver.

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Acquisition of BCBSLA Paused a Second Time It was the biggest health care deal in Louisiana history.

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The Importance of Broadband and Net Neutrality for Health, to the Last Person and the Last Mile

Health Populi

Google,” WebMD, or any number of.gov,edu, or.com healthcare information on-ramps; or, to order medical supplies and equipment on ecommerce sites like Amazon, CVS, Walgreens, Walmart, and other retail health outlets.

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million to benefit South Side and south suburban communities in fiscal 2022 INDIANA Beacon Health announces hiring freeze, pay cuts for employees Carmel-based NICO Corp. renovation Police: Man facing arson charges after setting 3 fires inside Florida hospital St.

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‘Not what we were looking for,’ CEO says Fired CEO files slander, defamation suit against Scotland County Hospital Missouri health system appoints strategy chief Missouri physician pleads guilty to $537K Medicare fraud scheme New Behavioral Health Crisis Center Open in Cape Girardeau St. and Del. . Roy Cooper’s $32.9