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Proposed CMS regulations call for a prospective risk adjustment solution with PCP involvement

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CMS continues to intensify oversight of Medicare Advantage (MA) risk adjustment practices with the 2027 Advance Notice, significantly curtailing the use of retrospective risk adjustment diagnoses that are not supported by a qualifying patient encounter. This latest policy direction reflects a broader multi-year regulatory trend aimed at strengthening program integrity, tightening documentation standards, and reinforcing encounter-based risk adjustment accuracy.

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Key metrics for value-based care

Value-based care (VBC) is designed to incentivize providers to improve outcomes in a cost-efficient manner. In other words, payment and quality of care are inextricably linked.

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What’s behind the move from retrospective to prospective risk adjustment?

Health plans across the country are recognizing the superior value of prospective risk adjustment programs, and rightfully so.

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Another blow to detached health risk assessments

Health Affairs recently published a study of data from 4 million Medicare Advantage (MA) members indicating that health risk assessments (HRAs) contributed up to $12 billion per year to risk adjusted payments in 2020.

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