President Biden hit the ground running, signing a batch of Executive Orders just hours after he was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States. A couple of…
CMS announced they will be performing a 2021 transition of care audit using the Transition Requirements Analysis (TR) that was piloted back in 2019. Although the 2019 TRA did not…
On May 23, 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a final rule (CMS-4180-F) which adopted new processing timeframe requirements for preservice organization determinations and plan reconsiderations…
Over the course past year, CMS issued several different proposed and final rules that address making certain data available in a real-time or near real-time manner. The table below summarizes…
On March 9, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the final rule (CMS-9115-F) regarding Interoperability and Patient Access. While CMS issued a fact sheet regarding this rule, this rule…
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Many Medicare Plans may believe compliance with the ten-year record retention requirement is a slam-dunk. However, plans are often tripped up in audits because their first-tier and downstream entities do…
History and Methodology The transition monitoring program analysis (TMPA) has been in effect since 2012 and will likely be a staple in the Part D program for several years to…
In addition to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) program audits, a plan’s claims issues, such as not processing Low-Income Subsidies (LIS) correctly, can surface in one-third financial…
As plans work through the biggest changes to the Medicare Marketing Guidelines since its inception – including changing the name of the guidance to the Medicare Communications and Marketing Guidelines…