“Under Part D, there was a huge mess at the beginning with beneficiaries being enrolled in the wrong plans or not being enrolled at all, or the plan didn’t know [its member was qualified to receive the low-income subsidy] and charged the regular copay. To me, any time you set up a new undertaking [such as the exchanges], that’s inevitable. I don’t know that it is realistic to set it up to be smooth from day one.”
— Wendy Krasner, a partner in the health care practice of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP, told AIS’s Health Reform Week.
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