Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Notes:
Tell CMS What You Really Think About Medicare Advantage Plans
Published on Fri Aug 05, 2022
Here鈥檚 your chance to give Medicare officials an earful about Medicare Advantage plans. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is soliciting feedback to improve MA, it says. 鈥淢edicare Advantage is a critical part of CMS鈥� vision to advance health equity; expand access to affordable coverage and care; drive high quality, person-centered care; and promote affordability and sustainability of Medicare,鈥� CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure says in a release about the Request for Information. 鈥淢edicare Advantage plans are essential partners in this work,鈥� Brooks-LaSure says. Instructions for submitting comments by Aug. 31 are in the RFI published in the Aug. 1 Federal Register at .
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Home Health & Hospice Week
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