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ACA 2027 Final Rule Targets Sales and Marketing
The 2027 Marketplace Final Rule includes expanded marketing and broker oversight and enrollment integrity scrutiny. Marketing materials that include misleading “zero-dollar” plan references or misrepresented enrollment deadlines, for example, are in CMS’s crosshairs.
May 282 min read


Material Review Doesn’t Have to Be a Bottleneck
For health plans and marketing teams, material development is constant—but compliant review and approval is where delays happen.
From ANOCs and EOCs to sales materials, websites, and physician communications, every piece must meet CMS, state, and ACA requirements before it can go live. Without the right structure and expertise, review cycles become slow, fragmented, and prone to rework.
Mar 302 min read


CMS’s CY 2025 Final Rule: A Quick Summary
CMS’s CY 2025 Final Rule: A Quick Summary
Apr 8, 20248 min read


Have Medicare Advantage Benefits Peaked?
We are pleased to invite you to our free webinar on April 3, 2024 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm EDT.
Mar 21, 20241 min read


CMS 4205-P Proposed Rule: Top Five Takeaways
On November 15, 2023, CMS issued a proposed rule that proposes revisions to regulations governing Medicare Advantage (MA or Part C), the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit (Part D), Medicare cost plans and Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), in Contract Year 2025 with a limited number of provisions to be applicable beginning with CY 2026. The proposed rule includes policies that would modify Star Ratings, marketing and communications guidance, agent/broker
Nov 21, 20234 min read


Calendar Year 2024 Rate Announcement
On March 31, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued its Announcement of Calendar Year (CY) 2024 Medicare...
Apr 7, 20233 min read


How Medicare Advantage Plans Will or Will Not Succeed, With Betsy Seals
Here’s a big thing that Betsy Seals makes clear in this show: Big companies can be successful in Medicare Advantage (MA)—and I mean...
Dec 1, 20221 min read


Annual Election Period: Key Trends
Co-Authored by John Selby and Diane Hollie This Annual Enrollment Period will definitely be one to watch. The key themes emerging from...
Oct 18, 20223 min read


Medicare Advantage is Growing: Are you Ready?
The growth of Medicare Advantage (MA), by almost every measure, is continuing at an explosive rate with no end in sight. The...
May 26, 20221 min read
2022 Outlook: Increased Marketing Oversight Is Top MAO Compliance Concern
Rebellis Group's Betsy Seals and John Selby were recently interviewed by AIS regarding CMS's take on third party marketers and the...
Feb 23, 20221 min read


Marketing & Sales Misrepresentations
Marketing & Sales Misrepresentations - Detection & Prevention Activities Every MAO Should Implement Now that the Annual Election Period...
Jan 18, 20222 min read
Open Enrollment Period - Round Two!
Now that we’re right in the middle of the 2020 OEP election period – how have your strategies stacked up to your local competition?
Feb 10, 20201 min read
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