Mid-Year Report

NATIONAL HEALTH POLICY GROUP for ELDERPLAN

Firm
Client
Income
$20,000
Expenses
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What was lobbied

One issue area, each in the filer's own words, with who lobbied on it and where.

Medicare/Medicaid MMM

-- 3 year extension of SNP statutory authority -- refinement of risk adjustment methods to pay more accurately for high risk beneficiaries -- establishment of CMS Office on Medicare/Medicaid Integration to promote better coordination of benefits between two programs for dually eligible -- requirement that CMS share part of it's savings from MA bids with state Medicaid agencies to promote state incentives for integration -- request that part of MA bid savings be incorporated into a pay for performance pool to reward plans meeting new performance standards -- establishment of requirement that SNPs provide complex care management services and report to CMS on specific chronic care performance measures. 1. Discussions with CMS regarding the trasnsition of Elderplan from a demonstration to a permanent MA plan and requirements related to a transition plan. 2. Discussions with CMS regarding Elderplan's filing of new SNP Applications. 3. Meetings with Members of Congress regarding reauthorization of Special Needs Plan legislation and the following issues:

LobbyistCovered position, as disclosed
VALERIE SUSAN WILBUR N/A

Contacted: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Shown as published by the Senate Office of Public Records and the House Clerk under the Lobbying Disclosure Act. The official filing is the record; open it for the full form.