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CMS has recently reorganized--and flattened out--to facilitate accomplishment of its many MMA-related tasks, said Patricia Smith, head of the agency's Medicare Advantage group. With fewer layers of hierarchy, stakeholders seeking assistance may get help more immediately from a staffer who specializes in a single issue, she indicated. On the downside, with less funneling of information up through CMS channels, "there may no longer be any one person" who "can answer all questions."
Current MA timelines are as follows:
* Regions will be announced soon. The answer to one of the insurance industry's most burning questions--where and how big will be the areas to be served by new regional preferred provider organizations and prescription drug plans--will be revealed "well ahead of the end...
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