Regulations and Guidance

This page contains links to program-related laws and regulations.

This page explains what is needed to meet the Application Deadline and provides a list of Application Deadlines.

This page describes the Reconciliation requirement and lists Reconciliation Deadlines.

This page contains the Cost Threshold and Cost Limit amounts by plan year and also defines cost threshold, cost limit, threshold reduction, and limit reduction .

This page contains a link to the document that describes the Mandatory Payment Reduction in CMS' Retiree Drug Subsidy Reconciliation Payments.

The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) of 2015 requires that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) remove Social Security Numbers (SSNs) from all Medicare cards by April 2019.