Latest Medicare News
Sat 27 Jul 2024
CMS Statement on System Changes to Stop Unauthorized Agent and Broker Marketplace Activity
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is committed to protecting consumers from bad actors and ensuring the program integrity of the Federally-facilitated Marketplace (FFM). That’s why CMS is taking additional action to address increases in unauthorized changes in consumers’ enrollments by agents and brokers. Starting on July 19, 2024, CMS will block an agent or broker from making changes to a consume...
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Sat 27 Jul 2024
The Biden-Harris Administration Releases Final Part Two Guidance to Help People with Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage Manage Prescription Drug Costs
President Biden’s Lower Cost Prescription Drug Law Will Allow People with Medicare to Spread Out-of-Pocket Prescription Drug Costs into Monthly Payments
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Sat 27 Jul 2024
Statement Attributable to CMS Administrator, Chiquita Brooks-LaSure
Remembering Gail R. Wilensky, Ph.D., a health care policy savant who knew how to work across the aisle. Her Influence and leadership can still be felt today. She was very generous to the CMS leaders who served after her, including me. My deepest condolences to her loved ones. CMS is grateful for her service to our country.###
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Sat 27 Jul 2024
CMS Announces Resources and Flexibilities to Assist with the Public Health Emergency in the State of Texas
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced today additional resources and flexibilities available in response to Hurricane Beryl in Texas. CMS is working closely with the State of Texas to put these flexibilities in place to ensure those affected by this natural disaster have access to the care they need – when they need it most.
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Sat 27 Jul 2024
CMS Roundup (July. 12, 2024)
Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) provides an at-a-glance summary of news from around the agency.CMS Proposes Rule to the Mitigate Impact of Significant, Anomalous, and Highly Suspect (SAHS) Billing Activity on Medicare Shared Savings Program
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