MA Advocates: Reward Plans For Equity, Shift Enrollment Role To HHS

Better Medicare Alliance, a coalition of Medicare Advantage advocates, wants policymakers to reward MA plans for addressing health disparities as part of policymakers’ COVID-19 response, as well as promote telehealth and other alternative care and streamline the MA enrollment experience by shifting the responsibility to HHS, according to the group’s 2021 policy agenda, released exclusively to Inside Health Policy . A strong COVID-19 response from Congress and the administration is crucial to MA beneficiaries, BMA’s agenda says. This includes making...