April 27, 2022 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Medicaid and Medicare Advantage Products Association of Puerto Rico (MMAPA) expressed frustration that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) missed an opportunity to address long-standing inequities in Puerto Rico’s Medicare Advantage (MA) program with the new base payments for 2023. Read more…
Published in The Hill on April 5, 2022 By Rafael Bernal Puerto Rico’s health care industry is raising the alarm over disparities in how the territory’s Medicare plans are funded, hurting the quality of services for around 630,000 senior citizens. In a joint letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Read more…
This week, MMAPA joined community and partner organizations in Puerto Rico to send a letter to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure highlighting the urgent need for equity in the island’s Medicare Advantage (MA) program. This letter notes Puerto Rico’s Read more…
Members of Congress pen bipartisan letter to Secretary Becerra urging a solution to disparities in Medicare Advantage, the backbone of seniors’ health care in Puerto Rico March 24, 2022 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Board of Directors of the Medicaid and Medicare Advantage Products Association of Puerto Rico (MMAPA) issued Read more…
Originally published in the San Juan Daily Star here. By John McPhaul With key federal Medicaid funding for the U.S. territories set to expire Dec. 13, Congress must act before then — ideally in forthcoming economic legislation — to avoid leaving residents of the territories to face potentially deep cuts Read more…
Featured in El Nuevo Dia here. March 19, 2022 This column was written by the Board of Directors of the Medicaid and Medicare Advantage Products Association (MMAPA): Roberto Pando (MCS), Roberto García (Triple-S), Orlando González (MMM), Juan Domínguez (First Medical), Ricardo Hernández (Mennonite) and Luis Torres Olivera (Humana). Last week, Read more…
Medicare Advantage (MA) rates present a perfect opportunity for CMS to act on inequities in federal programs ahead of the 2023 MA rates announcement on April 4th; MA rates in Puerto Rico have dropped to 41% below the U.S. average since passage of the Affordable Care Act March 18, 2022 Read more…
Washington, D.C. – The Board of Directors of the Medicaid and Medicare Advantage Products Association of Puerto Rico (MMAPA) announced today that the organization has elected Roberto Pando Cintrón as President for the 2022–2023 term. Pando Cintrón is the President of MMAPA member company MCS Advantage, Inc., and he will lead Read more…
Last month, Medicaid and Medicare Advantage Products Association of Puerto Rico (MMAPA) President Roberto Pando Cintrón submitted a statement for the record calling on Congress to approve a long-term funding solution for Puerto Rico’s federal health care programs. In his statement, Pando Cintrón highlighted that Puerto Rico falls 41% below the national average Read more…
By Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Az.) Originally published in The Hill. February 18, 2022 As all Americans have been wrestling with the anxiety and uncertainty of the ongoing pandemic, residents of the U.S. territories—American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands—have Read more…