Sweeping MA, Part D Proposed Rule Touches on Everything From Stars to SNPs

Exceeding 950 pages in its initial prepublication version, CMS’s most recent rule proposing policy and technical changes for contract year 2024 is the Biden administration’s most complicated and sweeping Medicare Advantage and Part D rule to date. Following a comprehensive request for information issued last summer on various aspects of the MA program, the rule addressed many of the same hot-button topics — from health equity and misleading marketing to behavioral health and prior authorization — that CMS asked about in the RFI. Additionally, the rule proposed major reforms to the Star Ratings and contained meaningful clarifications for MA Special Needs Plans (SNPs).

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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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