Health Affairs February 10, 2020
Billy Wynne, Josh LaRosa

Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released Part II of its Advance Notice of Methodological Changes for Medicare Advantage (MA) Capitation Rates and Part D Payment Policies for Calendar Year (CY) 2021 (fact sheet). The agency also released its proposed rule on policy and technical changes to MA and Part D for CYs 2021 and 2022 (fact sheet). A press release for both developments is available here. This post focuses on summarizing the Advance Notice component of this package of policies.

The topline takeaway for you from this raft of rulemaking is that the Medicare Advantage program is stronger than ever. Since I wrote a post on these pages in 2014 about its inexorable rise, over...

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Topics: CMS, Govt Agencies, Health System / Hospital, Insurance, Medicare Advantage, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Payment Models, Physician, Primary care, Provider
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