For the first time, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services is proposing to establish a health equity index in the Medicare Advantage and Part D Star Ratings program that would reward excellent care for underserved populations. The proposed rule would also update the Medicare Part D medication therapy management program to require that plans include all 10 core chronic
Proposed rule also implements provision of President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act to lower prescription drug costs for low-income people with Medicare.
In a newly proposed rule, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is changing prior authorization standards to speed up the time it takes for payers to approve the requests and is implementing HL7 FHIR standards to support an electronic process. CMS is proposing to require certain payers, including Medicare Advantage organizations, to implement electronic prior