"Modifying the HCC model is not a simple technical update or revision," the AMGA says. CMS recently released proposed changes to the CMS-HCC Risk Adjustment Model for payment year 2024 in February, ...
Accurate risk adjustment isn’t just a box to check; it’s now a strategic lever. Hierarchical Condition Category (HCC) coding underpins risk scores that drive Medicare Advantage and other value-based ...
On September 14, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued the Advance Notice of Methodological Changes for Calendar Year (CY) 2022 for Medicare Advantage (MA) Capitation Rates ...
Risk adjustment for patient experience measures needs to be modified by including the CMS Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCC) risk scores of home health beneficiaries. Conclusions: A negative ...
On April 1 st, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) announced its Medicare Advantage (“MA”) Capitation Rates and Part C and Part D Payment Policies for Calendar Year (“CY”) 2025. This ...
Health plan and industry trade groups are calling on the CMS to delay or not move forward entirely with proposed changes to the 2024 Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D plans. The calls come as the ...
While technical in nature, risk adjustment is crucial to the future of health care transformation... If reforms to risk adjustment are to succeed, all of us concerned with the future of our health ...
Under reasonably conservative assumptions about the rate of growth of coding intensity, using the budget neutrality method to calculate coding intensity would likely result in approximately $200 ...