To: James Canavan, Center for Medicare, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Spencer Manasse, Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, CMS Vicki Gottlich, Administration for Community Living Gene Coffey, Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services, CMS Janet Miller, Office of Communications, CMS Sharon Donovan, Medicare-Medicaid Coordination Office, CMS Re: Comments on “Frequently Asked Questions Regarding Medicare and the Marketplace” We appreciate that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Administration for Community Living (ACL) arranged a July meeting for beneficiary advocates to discuss our questions and concerns related to beneficiary transitions from coverage options created under [...]

Hon. Marilyn Tavenner, Administrator Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Department of Health and Human Services Hubert H. Humphrey Building 200 Independence Ave, SW Washington, D.C. 20201 Re: Coverage of Renal Dialysis in Exchange Plans Dear Administrator Tavenner: Dialysis Patient Citizens, America’s largest patient-led organization representing dialysis patients, is comprised of more than 26,000 dialysis and pre-dialysis patients and their families. We seek to ensure the patient point of view is considered by policy makers. We are writing to express our concerns about language we found in a spot-check of exchange plan documents that appears to permit disenrollment of patients [...]