NPC Provides Comments to CMS on the Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters (NBPP) for Calendar Year 2026

NPC submitted comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in response to the notice, “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2026 and Basic Health Program [CMS-9888-P].”

NPC's comments address several important areas in the proposed provisions to alter the affordability, quality, accessibility of Marketplace health insurance, established by the Affordable Care Act, including:

• Announcement of Intention of Proposed Rulemaking Regarding the Applicability of Drug Manufacturer Support to the Annual Limitation on Cost-Sharing
• Further Refining the HHS-Operated Risk Adjustment Program
• Advancing Health Equity and Mitigating Health Disparities
• Increasing Transparency of Data