# Medicare Program; Contract Year 2016 Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage and the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Programs
> **Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services** · Final rule. · Published 2015-02-12 · Effective 2015-03-16 · 80 FR 7912
## Document
- **Document number:** 2015-02671
- **Category:** medicare
- **Sub-agency:** Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- **Federal Register citation:** 80 FR 7912
- **CFR reference:** 42 CFR 417
- **Publication date:** 2015-02-12
- **Effective date:** 2015-03-16
- **HHS docket:** CMS-4159-F2
## Abstract

This final rule amends the Medicare Advantage (MA) program (Part C) regulations and Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Program (Part D) regulations to implement statutory requirements; improve program efficiencies; strengthen beneficiary protections; clarify program requirements; improve payment accuracy; and make various technical changes. Additionally, this rule finalizes two technical changes that reinstate previously approved but erroneously removed regulation text sections.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2015/02/12/2015-02671/medicare-program-contract-year-2016-policy-and-technical-changes-to-the-medicare-advantage-and-the)
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