Finalization of 2025 Policies: Major Changes Coming To Medicare Advantage and Part D
Just recently, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized two important notices and rules impacting CY 2025: the 2025 annual rate-setting and policy notice as well as the draft 2025 Medicare Advantage and Part D rule. In this blog, I will write about both the 2025 final rule as well as the policy changes in the 2025 final notice. In my blog on April 4, 2024, I discussed the rate-setting components of the annual rate-setting and policy notice. That blog is here: https://www.healthcarelabyrinth.com/final-2025-rates-for-medicare-advantage-remain-as-proposed/ . In addition, my February 1, 2024 blog on the draft notice is here and has more details: https://www.healthcarelabyrinth.com/2025-rates-for-medicare-advantage-plans-look-tight/ . They should be read together due to a few changes. In addition to the below, you can see my November 13, 2023 blog on the 2025 Medicare Advantage and Part D rule when it was first announced. This has additional details but also should be
