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BIO Submits Comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Regarding the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation's (CMMI's) Affordable Exchanges Guidance: Letter to Issuers on Federally-facilitated and State Partnership Exchanges

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March 15, 2013</div>
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Ms. Marilyn Tavenner, B.S.N., M.H.A.</div>
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Acting Administrator</div>
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Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services</div>
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Room 445&ndash;G, Hubert H. Humphrey Building</div>
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200 Independence Avenue, SW</div>
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Washington, DC 20201</div>
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Re: Affordable Exchanges Guidance: Letter to Issuers on Federally-facilitated and State Partnership Exchanges</div>
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Dear Ms. Tavenner:</div>
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The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) is pleased to submit the following comments on the draft Letter related to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act&rsquo;s (PPACA) health insurance Exchanges that the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS) issued on March 1, 2013, entitled &ldquo;Letter to Issuers on Federally-facilitated and State Partnership Exchanges&rdquo; (the &ldquo;Letter&rdquo;).1</div>
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BIO represents more than 1,100 biotechnology companies, academic institutions, state biotechnology centers and related organizations across the United States and in more than 30 other nations. BIO&#39;s members develop medical products and technologies to treat patients afflicted with serious diseases, to delay the onset of these diseases, or to prevent them in the first case. In that way, our members&rsquo; novel therapeutics, vaccines, and diagnostics not only have improved health outcomes, including productivity and quality of life, but also have reduced health care expenditures due to fewer physician office visits, hospitalizations and surgical interventions.</div>

March 15, 2013
 
Ms. Marilyn Tavenner, B.S.N., M.H.A.
Acting Administrator
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Room 445–G, Hubert H. Humphrey Building
200 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20201
 
Re: Affordable Exchanges Guidance: Letter to Issuers on Federally-facilitated and State Partnership Exchanges
 
Dear Ms. Tavenner:
 
The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) is pleased to submit the following comments on the draft Letter related to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s (PPACA) health insurance Exchanges that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued on March 1, 2013, entitled “Letter to Issuers on Federally-facilitated and State Partnership Exchanges” (the “Letter”).1
BIO represents more than 1,100 biotechnology companies, academic institutions, state biotechnology centers and related organizations across the United States and in more than 30 other nations. BIO's members develop medical products and technologies to treat patients afflicted with serious diseases, to delay the onset of these diseases, or to prevent them in the first case. In that way, our members’ novel therapeutics, vaccines, and diagnostics not only have improved health outcomes, including productivity and quality of life, but also have reduced health care expenditures due to fewer physician office visits, hospitalizations and surgical interventions.