Episode 20: Navigating the 2025 Medicare Advantage Final Rule: Expert Analysis and Strategic Insights

Welcome to the latest episode of RISE Radio, our podcast series that focuses on issues that impact policies, regulations, and challenges faced by health care professionals responsible for quality and revenue, Medicare member acquisition and experience, and/or social determinants of health. Our guests are Ana Handshuh, principal of CAT5 Strategies, Melissa Smith, founder and senior advisor of the Newton Smith Group, and Rex Wallace, founder & principal of Rex Wallace Consulting. During this 70-minute podcast, they discuss the major changes in the 2025 Medicare Advantage Final Rule that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released on April 4. The conversation delves into the Medicare Advantage marketing changes, including supplemental benefits and compensation to MA brokers and agents; dual eligible special needs plans (D-SNPs); network adequacy standards; Star rating measures; and strategies for compliance. For more on these changes, check out RISE’s upcoming spring conferences: Special Needs Plan Leadership Summit , May 1-3 in New York City Risk Adjustment Forum , May 20-22 in New Orleans Qualipalooza 2024 , June 2-4 in Atlanta

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Episode 20: Navigating the 2025 Medicare Advantage Final Rule: Expert Analysis and Strategic Insights is an episode from RISE Radio by Ilene MacDonald.

This episode is 70:48 long.

This episode was published on Apr 23, 2024.

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