Could the 2025 open enrollment become Medicare’s equivalent of the Department of Education’s FAFSA financial-aid form fiasco of chaos and confusion? “I don’t think it will be quite as drastic. I think it is going to be a year of change, though,” says Soistman. “And change is ...
Star Ratings are calculated at the contract level and apply to all plans that fall under the contract, regardless of quality differences between the individual plans. A plan that gets consolidated into an existing contract receives a Star Rating and quality bonus based on the score o...
experience during the year just before applying for certification, as well as 15 clock hours of continuing education related to diabetes within the two years before applying. The certification exam is given twice a year, in the spring and fall, for a one-month period, through AMP Assessment ...
strategies they used to deal with them. OIG found that more than 1,300 nursing homes had extremely high infection rates—75 percent or more— during case surges in the spring and fall of 2020. Also, for-profit nursing homes made up a disproportionate percentage of nursing homes with ...
What is a Medicare Health Risk Assessment? When you attend your Medicare Annual Wellness Visit, your physician will have you complete a Health Risk Assessment. This is a fancy term for a health questionnaire. Completing this can help your physician come up with a tailored prevention plan. Topi...
If Medicare does cover the supply you need, it’ll fall under Medicare Part B benefits. For example, Medicare will cover supplies that help lower the risk of falls. Supplies include commode chairs, crutches, and walkers. These supplies are Durable Medical Equipment that Medicare considers ...
Because of the complex relationships in drug prices across different types of buyers, the effect of changing one price, such as negotiating a discount for Medicare beneficiaries, may have indirect consequences on other prices. While drug prices paid by Medicare beneficiaries may fall in the short ...
(utilizing dementia and depression screening); through appropriate medication management, including considering the deprescribing of unnecessary medications; via mobility testing (e.g., fall risk assessment); and by addressing what matters to the patient’s general well-being [8] as part of the care...