CMS Skips Another Year on the MCMG

Health plans are wondering “where are my updated Medicare Communications and Marketing Guidelines (MCMG)?” For the second consecutive year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) stated that there will be no updated MCMG for CY2021. Instead, plans are instructed to use the existing MCMG and related memos from CY2020. How will changes be…

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Are you Prepared for an Audit of your HPMS Memos?

If the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reviewed your procedures around Health Plan Management System (HPMS) memos tomorrow – would you be happy with the outcome? Unfortunately for many health plans, the answer is, “No.” With anywhere from 10 to 20 HPMS memos distributed each week, there’s a heavy burden on compliance departments…

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