Very Brief Blogs: CMS Publishes Final Medicare Advantage and Part D Rules for Contract Year 2021

CMS has published the final rules, and a fact sheet, for the Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D contract year 2021.

See the fact sheet here.   See the final rule (inspection version) here.   Fed Reg version to appear June 2.

Note that CMS made a range of proposals in proposed rulemaking in February 2022; only those with the tightest deadlines are published here.  Additional proposals will be finalized in a "part two" final rulemaking in coming weeks.