Check: Medicare Advantage Coverage Issues

Late last year, CMS proposed a final rule to address the issue of coverage denials or service denials via prior authorization on behalf of Medicare Advantage Plans. Between providers and patients, coverage issues have significantly increased as beneficiary participation has increased (today, about 1 in 2 Medicare beneficiaries is in a Medicare Advantage plan). https://rhislop3.com/2023/11/09/cms-offers-fix-to-medicare-advantage-denials/ … Read more

CMS Offers Fix to Medicare Advantage Denials

An issue that has been tied to AI (artificial intelligence) and specifically, to Medicare Advantage plans, involves coverage denials. I wrote about this in a post earlier this year at https://rhislop3.com/2023/05/01/medicare-advantage-part-d-final-rule/ Coverage denials have been a fairly hot topic around Medicare Advantage plans. The core of the issue is that Medicare Advantage plans are required … Read more