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[B][I]CMS Email

From: Health Plan Management System (HPMS)
Date: October 30, 2015
Subject: Agent/Broker Compensation

This purpose of this email is to update and clarify payment guidance in Section 120.4.2 of the Medicare Marketing Guidelines. There are three scenarios affecting how an organization may pay full or pro-rated initial compensation.

1) For a beneficiary's first year of enrollment in a plan, in which the MARx report lists the prior plan type as "none", organizations may pay full or pro-rated initial compensation.

2) When a beneficiary moves from an employer group to a
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