Healthcare DIVE May 22, 2020
Dive Brief:
- CMS on Friday released a final rule that gives more weight to patient experience, complaint and access measures in Medicare Advantage and Part D star ratings and reduces the influence of outliers. It also finalizes a proposal to modify the calculation of 2021 and 2022 Part C and D star ratings to “address the expected disruption to data collection and impact on measure scores posed by the COVID-19 pandemic to avoid inadvertently creating incentives to place cost considerations above patient safety,” according to a CMS fact sheet.
- The rule attempts to let more MA plans comply with network adequacy standards by reducing the percentage of rural beneficiaries that must reside within maximum time and distance areas and...