I.  Go to Regulations.gov. Search for a current proposed rule governing the Medicare program which was posted by CMS and has comments due in the next 90 days.

 What is the title of the proposed rule? (10 points)

 Answer the following based on the proposed rule that you located in question 1:

 2) To be considered, by what date must comments be received by? (10 points)

3) How many major provisions are summarized? (20 points)

4) Did CMS complete a regulatory impact analysis for this proposed rule?  (10 points) Why or why not? (20 points)

5) CMS is receiving numerous comments on this proposed rule. In a subsequent document produced by CMS, where will the agencys response to these public comments be found? (30 points)

6) You are a new hospital administrator and have been asked to draft comments to this proposed rule. Before you begin drafting, you decide to look at a few submitted comments to get some ideas of approaches to consider in your comments.

To do this you browse some of the posted comments.  You begin by looking at the comments related to hospitals, specifically one submitted by the CEO of a critical access hospital in Missouri and another submitted by a rural PPS hospital in Louisiana. You then wonder what providers are saying so you look at some of the comments submitted by pharmacists; in particular you review the comment submitted by the intern pharmacist who is a 2022 PharmD candidate.

After finding and reviewing these three submitted comments and the proposed rule, critique the likely effectiveness of these comments from the agencys perspective. In answering this question be specific what do you think is effective/ineffective and why? (50 points)