Description
1) What is the title of the proposed rule?
2) To be considered, by what date must comments be received by?
3) How many major provisions are summarized?
4) Did CMS complete a regulatory impact analysis for this proposed rule? Why or why not?
5) CMS is receiving numerous comments on this proposed rule. In a subsequent document produced by CMS, where will the agency’s response to these public comments be found?
6) You are a new hospital administrator and have been asked to draft comments to this proposed rule. Before you begin drafting, you decide to look at a few submitted comments to get some ideas of approaches to consider in your comments.
To do this you browse some of the posted comments. You begin by looking at the comments related to hospitals, specifically one submitted by the CEO of a critical access hospital in Missouri and another submitted by a rural PPS hospital in Louisiana. You then wonder what providers are saying so you look at some of the comments submitted by pharmacists; in particular you review the comment submitted by the intern pharmacist who is a 2022 PharmD candidate.
After finding and reviewing these three submitted comments and the proposed rule, critique the likely effectiveness of these comments from the agency’s perspective. In answering this question be specific – what do you think is effective/ineffective and why?
Explanation & Answer
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1. What is the title of the proposed rule?
Medicare Program: Contract Year 2023 Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare
Advantage and Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Programs (Regulations.gov, 2022).
2. To be considered, by what date must comments be received by?
By March 7, 2022 (Regulations.gov, 2022).
3. How many major provisions are summarized?
The proposed rule summarized 12 major provisions. These provisions are listed below.
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§ 422.107
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§ 422.101
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§§ 422.2 and 422.107
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§ 422.107
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§§ 422.100 and 422.101:
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§ 422.100(m):
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§ 422.116:
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§ 422.166
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ᤤ 422.502 and 422.503
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§§ 422.2260 and 423.2260, 422.2267 and 423.2267, 422.2274 and 423.2274
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§§ 422.2460 and 423.2460:
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