The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Announcement of Calendar Year (CY) 2026 Medicare Advantage (MA) Capitation Rates and Part C and Part D Payment Policies on April 7, 2025.
PQA distributed a summary of points of interest from the CMS Advance Notice of Methodological Changes for Calendar Year (CY) 2026 for Medicare Advantage (MA) Capitation Rates and Part C and D Payment Policies to membership in January 2025. There were no substantial changes in the Announcement regarding PQA measures from what CMS proposed in the Advance Notice.
For further details on any of the points below, we have included page numbers and encourage you to refer to the document’s full language, which can be found here.
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