Medicare Rights appreciates the opportunity to comment on CMS’s Request for Information (RFI) on Medicare Advantage (MA). In our response, we offer suggestions and recommendations to improve the program, based on our direct experience helping MA enrollees navigate their coverage and access needed care.
Comments on the enrollment changes made by BENES Act provisions and other matters.
Comments on the Advance Notice of Methodological Changes for
Calendar Year (CY) 2023 for Medicare Advantage (MA) Capitation Rates and Part C and Part D Payment Policies
Comments on the 2023 C&D rule: Medicare Program; Contract Year 2023 Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage and Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Programs.
We provided comments on the 2023 Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for Affordable Care Act Marketplace plans.
We provided comments supporting CMS revoking the Georgia 1332 Medicaid waiver which would eliminate access to HealthCare.gov for Georgia residents.
Comments on the Physician Fee Schedule for 2022 which extends a glidepath for temporary telehealth services until the end of 2023 and makes permanent certain audio-only mental health and substance use disorder telehealth services.
Home health is a valuable and necessary benefit that can help people with Medicare live safely in their homes and communities. But far too many beneficiaries lack meaningful access to needed services. Often, this is due to due to misaligned financial incentives that make serving people with chronic conditions who are not expected to improve less profitable than delivering short-term care to people who are recovering from illness or injury. We are concerned the proposed rule could exacerbate this dynamic.
Comments on the Updating Payment Parameters proposed rule that would make changes to ACA marketplace enrollment, assistance, and standards.
The need to address equity has never been clearer. The COVID-19 pandemic, entrenched economic exploitation, rising income inequality, and violent and systemic racism must be a call to action to build new pathways to equity and justice. We are glad to see this RFI’s focus on ways to see, assess, and redress inequities throughout our governmental systems.
Medicare has aided the country before as we attempted to move past the horrors of Jim Crow and other segregation and racial and ethnic barriers. But disparities persist, and more must be done to improve access to health care and coverage, build well-being, support dignity, and enhance economic stability for all.
