Medicare Program; Contract Year 2023 Policy And Technical Changes To The Medicare Advantage And Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Programs; Policy And Regulatory Revisions In Response To The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency; Additional Policy And Regulatory Revisions In Response To The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency – InsuranceNewsNet

Agency: " Centers for Medicare& Medicaid Services, Department of Health and Human Services." This final rule finalizes certain 2021 and 2022 Star Ratings provisions that were included in two interim final rules with comment period that CMS issued on April 6, 2020, and September 2, 2020; other policies from those interim final rules will be addressed in other...

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