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PAN submits comments to CMS on Medicare Advantage data collection to improve patient outcomes and advance health equity

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In a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the PAN Foundation recommends ways in which Medicare Advantage (MA) data collection and transparency can improve processes, including: 

  1. Identifying and improving abuses of prior authorization  
  2. Enhancing data collection to advance health equity 
  3. Using MA prescription drug plans data to improve patient outcomes 

      Read our letter and supporting materials here: