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MACRA was signed into law on April 16, 2015, just before the IFC was finalized. Section 507 of MACRA amends section 1860D-4(c) of the Act (42 U.S.C. 1395w-104(6)) by requiring that pharmacy claims for covered Part D drugs include prescriber NPIs that are determined to be valid under procedures established by the Secretary in consultation with appropriate stakeholders, beginning with plan year 2016. IBD Stock Analysis Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield is an Independent Licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association and is licensed to offer health plans in all 75 counties of Arkansas. View My Closest Center View All Centers Don't have Part A? There are Special Enrollment Periods (SEPs) that apply when you are able to delay your enrollment in Medicare Parts A, B, C & D. These SEPs are only available for certain circumstances. Uniform Medical Plan (UMP) plans We offer a complete choice of plans to meet your coverage needs and fit your budget. Indian Health Service In 2006, the SGR mechanism was scheduled to decrease physician payments by 4.4%. (This number results from a 7% decrease in physician payments times a 2.8% inflation adjustment increase.) Congress overrode this decrease in the Deficit Reduction Act (P.L. 109-362), and held physician payments in 2006 at their 2005 levels. Similarly, another congressional act held 2007 payments at their 2006 levels, and HR 6331 held 2008 physician payments to their 2007 levels, and provided for a 1.1% increase in physician payments in 2009. Without further continuing congressional intervention, the SGR is expected to decrease physician payments from 25% to 35% over the next several years. Motivational interviewing (A) Adding additional tests that would meet the numerator requirements; Leadership Finally, we believe requiring that some manufacturer rebates be applied at the point of sale as we are considering doing would improve price transparency and limit the opportunity for differential reporting of costs and price concessions, which may have a positive effect on market competition and efficiency. We solicit comment on whether basing the rebate applied at the point of sale on average rebates at the drug category/class level, as described previously, would meaningfully increase price transparency over the status quo by ensuring a consistent percentage of the rebates received are reflected in the price at the point of sale, while also protecting the details of any manufacturer-sponsor pricing relationship. Document Search While CMS generally seeks to encourage the utilization of lower cost follow-on biological products, we propose to limit inclusion of follow-on biological products in the definition of generic drug to purposes of non-LIS catastrophic cost sharing and LIS cost sharing only because we want to avoid causing any confusion or misunderstanding that CMS treats follow-on biological products as generic drugs in all situations. We do not believe that would be appropriate because the same FDA requirements for generic drug approval (for example, therapeutic equivalence) do not apply to biosimilar biological products, currently the only available follow-on biological products. Accordingly, CMS currently considers biosimilar biological products more like brand name drugs for purposes of transition or midyear formulary changes because they are not interchangeable. In these contexts, treating biosimilar biological products the same as generic drugs would incorrectly signal that CMS has deemed biosimilar biological products (as differentiated from interchangeable biological products) to be therapeutically equivalent. This could jeopardize Part D enrollee safety and may generate confusion in the marketplace through conflation with other provisions due to the many places in the Part D statute and regulation where generic drugs are mentioned. Therefore, we believe the proposed change to treat follow-on biological products as generics should be limited to purposes of non-LIS catastrophic and LIS cost sharing only. Call 612-324-8001 Medical Cost Plan | Minneapolis Minnesota MN 55480 Hennepin Call 612-324-8001 Medical Cost Plan | Minneapolis Minnesota MN 55483 Hennepin Call 612-324-8001 Medical Cost Plan | Minneapolis Minnesota MN 55484 HennepinLegal | Sitemap