The Biden administration on Monday proposed new regulations on Medicare Advantage plans aimed at improving competition between plans and strengthening access to supplementary care services.
Under the proposed rule, large insurance plans would be constrained in the amount of compensation that they could provide to brokers or agents of Medicare Advantage, limiting bonus arrangements outside of existing regulations. CMS intends to close loopholes that result in what the administration calls"anti-consumer steering incentives."
"Keeping healthcare costs low and competitive means preventing anti-competitive actors from deceiving seniors and people with disabilities and from playing fast and loose with marketing rules," Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said in a press briefing. CMS is also proposing regulations to increase access to behavioral healthcare and additional treatment providers under Medicare Advantage plans. The addition includes marriage and family therapists, mental health counselors, addiction medicine clinicians, opioid treatment advisers, and others into CMS's Medicare Advantage network adequacy requirements.
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