Across the Medicare Advantage and Part D industry, Plans are nervous about how their grievance resolution letters will present and stand the test in a CMS Program Audit. BluePeak Advisors…
BluePeak AdvisorsFebruary 18, 2022
On November 2, 2020, CMS released the results of the CY2020 Monitoring of Posted Comprehensive Formularies or their Posted versus Approved (PvA) analysis. For the CY2020 analysis, CMS announced that…
BluePeak AdvisorsNovember 24, 2020
Reprinted with AIS Health permission from the October 1, 2020, issue of RADAR on Medicare Advantage CMS’s latest overview of program audits showed continued improvement among Medicare Advantage and Part…
BluePeak AdvisorsOctober 9, 2020
CMS guidance requires Medicare Advantage Plans to have an independent audit of their compliance program’s effectiveness each year. Given competing priorities, it may be tempting to conduct a limited or…
BluePeak AdvisorsJune 13, 2020
8 Tips to Ensure Your Plan is Ready After months of hard work and planning, everyone sighed with relief when bids and formularies were submitted earlier this month. But, as…
BluePeak AdvisorsJune 13, 2020
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released an HPMS memo on August 20, 2019 providing an overview of the upcoming changes to program audits through 2021. These changes…
BluePeak AdvisorsMarch 18, 2020
On 2/28/2020, CMS released the Civil Money Penalty (CMP) Enforcement Actions for 2019 Program Audits. Contract year 2019 was the first year of this audit cycle and we have incorporated…
BluePeak AdvisorsMarch 18, 2020
On December 6, 2019 CMS issued the HPMS Memo titled “Proposed Collection for New Medicare Part C and Part D Program Audit and Industry-Wide Part C Timeliness Monitoring Project (TMP)…
BluePeak AdvisorsFebruary 5, 2020
The Organizational Determination (OD) and Coverage Determination (CD) process can be a source of frustration for members, prescribers and plans. The updates to Chapter 13 and 18 highlight the expectation…
BluePeak AdvisorsDecember 17, 2019
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