Becker's Healthcare January 21, 2021
CMS will use 12 measures to calculate its 2022 Star Ratings for Medicare Part D prescription drug plans, which the agency outlined Jan. 15.
CMS ranks Medicare Part D plans on a quality scale of one to five stars, with five representing excellent performance and one reflecting poor performance. To assign stars, Medicare analyzes how health plans perform on certain measures. At the contract level, CMS only includes the measure if numeric value scores are available for both the current year and prior years.
The 12 measures that will be used to calculate the 2022 Star Ratings for Medicare Part D plans are below. Several...