Becker's Healthcare November 3, 2022
Senate Finance Committee Democrats are pushing for tighter regulation of Medicare Advantage marketing from CMS and Congress.
In a report published Nov. 3, the Finance Committee members urge several actions from Congress and CMS, including closing loopholes that allow brokers to cold call older adults, monitoring Medicare Advantage disenrollment patterns and supporting unbiased sources of information for Medicare enrollees.
The lawmakers also called on CMS to issue warnings to older adults, such as to use caution calling TV helplines, to contact the official Medicare helpline if they think they have been enrolled in a plan that won’t work for them and to be wary of providing personal information online.
In October, CMS indicated that it will crack...
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