Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Role in each timeline
- Social Security's Next Raise: From the 2.5% COLA to the 2027 Announcement
Sets Medicare Part B premiums, which are commonly deducted from Social Security checks and can reduce the net value of a COLA.
- Medicare Advantage's Retreat: From the 2026 Rate Hike to the 2027 Plan Exits and Open Enrollment
Sets Medicare Advantage and Part D payment, marketing, audit, star-rating, and enrollment policies.
Entries that mention Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Plan non-renewal letters are due by October 2; open enrollment runs October 15 to December 7 Reporton Medicare Advantage's Retreat: From the 2026 Rate Hike to the 2027 Plan Exits and Open Enrollment
- CMS defers decision on collecting extrapolated RADV overpayments Regulatoryon Medicare Advantage's Retreat: From the 2026 Rate Hike to the 2027 Plan Exits and Open Enrollment
- Federal judge denies Elevance star-ratings preliminary injunction Legalon Medicare Advantage's Retreat: From the 2026 Rate Hike to the 2027 Plan Exits and Open Enrollment
- 2027 Part D base premium set at $41.33 under the IRA's 6 percent cap Regulatoryon Medicare Advantage's Retreat: From the 2026 Rate Hike to the 2027 Plan Exits and Open Enrollment
- CMS files notice appealing Clover star-ratings ruling Legalon Medicare Advantage's Retreat: From the 2026 Rate Hike to the 2027 Plan Exits and Open Enrollment
- GAO finds gaps in CMS plans for RADV audits Reporton Medicare Advantage's Retreat: From the 2026 Rate Hike to the 2027 Plan Exits and Open Enrollment
- Elevance Health sues HHS and CMS over star-ratings recalculation Legalon Medicare Advantage's Retreat: From the 2026 Rate Hike to the 2027 Plan Exits and Open Enrollment
- Lloyd Doggett and colleagues introduce the Saving MEDICARE Act Regulatoryon Medicare Advantage's Retreat: From the 2026 Rate Hike to the 2027 Plan Exits and Open Enrollment
- CMS begins recalculating certain 2027 quality bonus ratings Regulatoryon Medicare Advantage's Retreat: From the 2026 Rate Hike to the 2027 Plan Exits and Open Enrollment
- CMS recalculates Clover rating to 4.5 stars Regulatoryon Medicare Advantage's Retreat: From the 2026 Rate Hike to the 2027 Plan Exits and Open Enrollment
- Elevance Health wires $342.2 million to CMS Financialon Medicare Advantage's Retreat: From the 2026 Rate Hike to the 2027 Plan Exits and Open Enrollment
- Clover wins a ruling that CMS exceeded its authority on ten star-ratings measures Legalon Medicare Advantage's Retreat: From the 2026 Rate Hike to the 2027 Plan Exits and Open Enrollment
- CMS finalizes 2027 rates at 2.48 percent, over $13 billion, up from the near-zero proposal Regulatoryon Medicare Advantage's Retreat: From the 2026 Rate Hike to the 2027 Plan Exits and Open Enrollment
- 2027 final rule reshapes star ratings and rolls back 2023 marketing safeguards Regulatoryon Medicare Advantage's Retreat: From the 2026 Rate Hike to the 2027 Plan Exits and Open Enrollment
- Enrollment data: MA grows only 3 percent to 35.5 million; UnitedHealthcare down 9 percent since October Reporton Medicare Advantage's Retreat: From the 2026 Rate Hike to the 2027 Plan Exits and Open Enrollment
- 2027 advance notice proposes an almost flat 0.09 percent payment update Regulatoryon Medicare Advantage's Retreat: From the 2026 Rate Hike to the 2027 Plan Exits and Open Enrollment
- Kaiser Permanente affiliates agree to pay $556 million in FCA settlement Legalon Medicare Advantage's Retreat: From the 2026 Rate Hike to the 2027 Plan Exits and Open Enrollment
- Medicare Part B premium for 2026 jumps almost 10% to $202.90, eating into the COLA Announcementon Social Security's Next Raise: From the 2.5% COLA to the 2027 Announcement
- Humana loses its second lawsuit over the 2025 star ratings, a day before open enrollment Legalon Medicare Advantage's Retreat: From the 2026 Rate Hike to the 2027 Plan Exits and Open Enrollment
- 2026 star ratings: 40 percent of MA-PD contracts at four stars or better, covering 64 percent of enrollees Reporton Medicare Advantage's Retreat: From the 2026 Rate Hike to the 2027 Plan Exits and Open Enrollment
- CMS projects the first fall in Medicare Advantage enrollment, to 34 million, as 2026 plans are filed Reporton Medicare Advantage's Retreat: From the 2026 Rate Hike to the 2027 Plan Exits and Open Enrollment
- Judge O'Connor vacates the 2023 RADV audit rule that let CMS extrapolate overpayments Legalon Medicare Advantage's Retreat: From the 2026 Rate Hike to the 2027 Plan Exits and Open Enrollment
- CMS says it will audit every Medicare Advantage contract every year and clear the 2018 to 2024 backlog Regulatoryon Medicare Advantage's Retreat: From the 2026 Rate Hike to the 2027 Plan Exits and Open Enrollment
- CMS finalizes 2026 Medicare Advantage rates: a 5.06 percent increase, about $25 billion more for plans Regulatoryon Medicare Advantage's Retreat: From the 2026 Rate Hike to the 2027 Plan Exits and Open Enrollment