Medicare recently issued guidance to private health plans with Medicare contracts concerning mailings to Medicare beneficiaries about current health reform legislation’s potential impact on Medicare Advantage and prescription drug benefits. CMS is concerned that certain private health plans have sent or may send to Medicare beneficiaries information that violates Medicare rules concerning such benefit information, unless the information was first submitted to CMS for review. CMS is concerned that such mailings will confuse beneficiaries and think that such information is official communication about the Medicare Advantage program. CMS asks that plan sponsors refrain from mailing similar materials until CMS has investigated whether potential violations have occurred.
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