Health Equity CMS noted that dual-eligibles suffered under prior MA benchmarking methodology. "CMS has concluded that continuing to implement the 2024 CMS-HCC model is necessary and appropriate. This conclusion is partly informed by plan bidding for 2024, which signaled strong growth in the...
“Better Medicare Alliance also applauds CMS’s keen focus on health equity in the Rate Announcement. The Medicare Advantage community is committed to being a good partner with CMS in the critical work of addressing social determinants of health and eliminating health disparities....
The agency wants to add a new Health Equity Incentive to the improvement scoring methodology that can determine the rates for home dialysis and transplants. Those rates will impact the payment levels that providers in the model can receive. Participants that choose to add the incen...
“CMS is looking closely at the hospice industry, as we have increasing concerns about fraud, waste and abuse in this space,” stated afact sheeton the CMS website. “While this rule takes initial steps, this is part of a larger effort by CMS to address hospice fraud, waste and abu...
(REH) Quality Reporting Program, and other requests to address health equity in quality programs. CMS has received and responded to comments across each of these areas and will consider input for future proposals as part of a commitment to assess healthcare quality disparities in ho...
CMS clarifies telehealth policy expansion for Medicare in COVID-19 health emergency, including non-HIPAA compliant platforms (US) March 18, 2020| byDonna Cusano Today (17 March),the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services(CMS)issued aFact SheetandFAQsexplaining how the expanded telehealth provisio...
That subsidy can be used to pay for Part D premiums as well as cost-sharing for medications. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said ina fact sheetthat 300,000 people currently enrolled in the program stand to benefit from the expansion, and they could save nearly $300 per...
FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS ANNUAL RESULTS HIGHLIGHTS For the year ended 31st December Revenue Gross profit Operating profit Profit before income tax Profit attributable to equity holders Basic earnings per share (HK cents) Dividends per share (HK cents) Dividend payout ratio* (%) BALANCE SHEET HIGHLIGHT...
Perhaps more importantly, in the face of 2022's tumult, our team continued to make progress on our environmental, social and governance (ESG) and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. We know better than anybody that we still have a long way to go to achieve our ESG/DEI ...
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