NEWS: Medicare proposed rule draws criticism
Patient Financial Services Weekly Advisor, March 7, 2008
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' approach to prevent certain Medicare beneficiaries from having to change their Medicare drug plans will not work, Medicare advocacy groups say.
CMS proposed a proposed rule that says at least five prescription drug plans in each state qualified as zero premium plans for low income beneficiaries, according to Medical News Today.
"CMS' intentions are good, but their approach will not prevent or even limit reassignment," says Vicki Gottlich, Senior Policy Attorney for the Center for Medicare Advocacy. "The proposed regulation, while ensuring that beneficiaries will always have a minimum number of benchmark plans to chose from, does nothing to guarantee that those plans will be the same from one year to the next."
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