{"id":12689,"date":"2019-02-20T10:15:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T15:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12689"},"modified":"2019-02-20T10:15:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T15:15:29","slug":"cms-can-terminate-private-medicare-plans-with-poor-star-ratings-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12689","title":{"rendered":"CMS can terminate private Medicare plans with poor Star Ratings again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Morgan Haefner for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>CMS informed Medicare Advantage and Part D drug plans that it will begin to terminate their contracts if they consistently achieve poor Star Ratings, according to a Feb. 6\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems\/Computer-Data-and-Systems\/HPMS\/HPMS-Memos-Archive-Weekly-Items\/SysHPMS-Memo-2019-Week2-Feb-4-8.html?DLPage=5&amp;DLEntries=10&amp;DLSort=1&amp;DLSortDir=descending\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">memorandum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Five things to know:\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/payer-issues\/cms-can-terminate-private-medicare-plans-with-poor-star-ratings-again.html\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CMS-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7780\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CMS-logo-300x105.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CMS-logo-300x105.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CMS-logo.jpg 382w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Morgan Haefner for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) CMS informed Medicare Advantage and Part D drug plans that it will begin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-medicare-advantage","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12690,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12689\/revisions\/12690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}