4 ways to reduce – or eliminate – errors in your ANOCs and EOCs

The accuracy of Annual Notice of Changes (ANOC) and Evidence of Coverage (EOC) documents is an important requirement for all health plans. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) takes errors in these documents very seriously and penalties are given to health plans that distribute documents with errors. CMS recently announced changes to the…

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What Does CMS’s New Rule Regarding Electronic EOCs Mean for Health Plans?

In its 2019 annual notice, The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued regulatory changes that impact how and when health plans must provide Evidence of Coverage (EOC) documents to members. What the Rule Allows The rule brings the following major changes to Medicare Advantage Organizations (MAOs), Medicare Prescription Drug Plans (PDPs), and section…

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Can Outsourcing Your Member Marketing Materials Production Pay for Itself?

Many health plans are currently considering how to manage creation and distribution of marketing materials due to members September 30. The reality is, health plans have two options: Develop materials in-house, and outsource printing and fulfillment to a vendor; or Outsource the entire materials production process – materials creation, and print and fulfillment – to…

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Are you Outsourcing your ANOC and EOC Creation to the Best People for the Job?

Preparing materials for the Annual Enrollment Period (AEP) – namely Annual Notice of Changes (ANOC), Evidence of Coverage (EOC), and Summary of Benefits (SB) documents – can be a time-consuming, labor-intensive process wrought with compliance risk. As a result, many health plans opt to outsource the creation of these documents to a third-party vendor. There…

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6 Traits of a Great Consulting Partner

In the world of Medicare and Medicaid, choosing a consulting partner to help streamline your health plan’s operations can be tricky. While a company or individual may be well-versed in best practices for project management or operational efficiency, they may not understand the unique requirements of the payer market – making them less than effective…

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Start Now for an Easier ANOCs and EOCs Creation Season Next Year

Every year, the people who produce marketing materials for their Medicare members are extremely busy from April through September. Deadlines are tight and timelines are aggressive for creating, printing and mailing the Annual Notice of Changes (ANOCs), Evidence of Coverage (EOCs) and Summary of Benefits (SBs) documents. Very few people in these roles take vacation…

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The Secret to Simplifying Health Plans’ Member Marketing Material Translations: A Parallel Project Path

We’ve seen first-hand the frustrations health plan project managers experience in translating their member marketing materials – including Annual Notice of Coverage (ANOC), Evidence of Coverage (EOC), Drug Formulary and Summary of Benefits (SB) – to additional languages. The question for our CodyPrint® team became: What would give project managers visibility to the translation process,…

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3 Reasons the Conventional Method of Translating Member Materials Makes Project Managers Nervous

Project managers are highly organized, detail-oriented people. Some may admit to being control freaks, but that’s what makes them good at their jobs. This is especially the case for project managers responsible for coordinating a health plans’ member marketing communications, given the level of complexity, time-sensitivity and risk involved in creating and distributing these materials.…

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