Healthcare DIVE June 3, 2024
Rebecca Pifer

AmeriLife’s suit joins at least two others from MA sales groups seeking revisions to the rule for threatening their business model.

Dive Brief:

  • A major field marketing organization is suing the Biden administration over a final rule capping payments from Medicare Advantage health insurers to agents and brokers, joining a raft of other litigation from sales groups seeking to roll back the regulation.
  • In its suit filed last week in a Texas district court, AmeriLife argues the government doesn’t have the authority to cut off payments to field marketing organizations, or FMOs, which don’t themselves enroll beneficiaries in plans but use payments from carriers to oversee independent brokers that do.
  • AmeriLife is seeking either a declaration that the rule...

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