Withdrawing Counties from a 2009 MA-PD Application
Guidance for: The ability to drop a county (including portions of a county) or counties from a pending application. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) treats each application as a unified non-severable whole. For example, if an applicant seeks to cover ten counties, and one of those counties lacks an acceptable provider network, CMS will deny the entire application.
Issued by: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Issue Date: May 28, 2008
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