
The Latest Edition Of The Stars Roadmap
Published in partnership with Lilac Software: https://lilacsoftware.com Figuring out exactly what will happen in the Star measure program over time is no small feat. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) certainly does not make it easy to create a Stars roadmap so you are ready for a new measure maturing to Stars. CMS will use a variety of means to telegraph what might occur. These include annual Medicare Advantage (MA) and Part D rules, the so-called Advanced and Final Notices/Announcement annually, and other CMS communications. Even then, pulling it all together is tough. Things can change from proposed rules to finalized rules. CMS may give direction on a change in one year only to backtrack the next. You can never be 100% sure until the Advance Notice is finalized for the coming year. This usually drops in April of a given year. Sometimes, as they did with Star