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05.02.22
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Rural Health Strategy Meeting Registration Open
CMS Releases Final Rule Regarding Medicare Advantage, Part D
Mass Conversions Swell Medicaid Expansion Caseload But Application Processing Remains Slow
Staff Contact: Sarah Willson or Andrew Wheeler
CMS’ Rural Health Council is hosting a public, virtual listening session for CMS Regions 5, 7 and 8 on Tuesday, May 10, at 3 p.m., to hear feedback on its current Rural Health Strategy. Those interested in attending can register here.
Staff Contact: Andrew Wheeler
CMS released a final rule for the Medicare Advantage and Part D prescription drug programs that will improve experiences for dually eligible beneficiaries and provide greater transparency. The rule includes changes related to marketing and communications, past performance, network adequacy, medical loss ratio reporting and special requirements during disasters or public emergencies. CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure stated, “this rule improves the health care experience and affordability for millions of people with MA and Part D coverage, including dually eligible individuals, and provides needed support to populations often left behind.” MHA published an issue brief with additional details.
Staff Contact: Brian Kinkade
As of April 29, 165,556 individuals have been enrolled in coverage under Missouri’s Medicaid expansion. The current case count includes the recent mass conversion of approximately 70,000 young adults and women who had given birth but remained enrolled in the regular Medicaid program because of federal law prohibiting states from ending Medicaid coverage for currently enrolled participants during the COVID-19 PHE. An earlier mass conversion brought in about 25,000 uninsured women who were receiving limited coverage (contraception and annual cancer/STD screening) through the Extended Women’s Health program.
Aside from these mass conversions (which should now be completed), growth in Medicaid expansion enrollment remains relatively slow. One reason for the slow growth is a large number of pending applications that are awaiting processing by the Department of Social Services. The department’s March Monthly Management Report (Table 11) shows that more than 65,000 applications for parents, kids and expansion adults are pending as of March 31. The extraordinarily large number of backlogged applications has persisted for more than four months. DSS reports that it is working on changes to its application review operations to increase processing capacity.
ATTEND: CMS’ webinar, “Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings: Impact of the CMS Exception” is scheduled at 1:30 p.m. Friday, May 13, and will provide a brief overview of the star ratings methodology, as well as explain the influence of CMS’ data exception for Q1 and Q2 of 2020 data. Registration is required.
