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✦ CMS on Nov. 2 finalized changes intended to boost participation in the Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program (MDPP) expanded model. In the Calendar Year 2022 Physician Fee Schedule final rule, CMS finalized proposals to waive the Medicare enrollment fee for MDPP suppliers beyond the end of the public health emergency, shorten the program services period to one year by eliminating the second year of maintenance sessions, and redistribute all of the Ongoing Maintenance sessions phase performance payments to certain Core and Core Maintenance Session performance payments.

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Lauren Flynn Kelly

Lauren Flynn Kelly Managing Editor, Radar on Medicare Advantage

Lauren has been covering health business issues, including drug benefits and specialty pharmacy, for more than a decade. She served as editor of Drug Benefit News (the predecessor to Radar on Drug Benefits) from 2004 to 2005 and again from 2011 to 2016, and now manages Radar on Medicare Advantage. Lauren graduated from Vassar College with a B.A. in English.

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