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Medicare Advantage 2024 Rate Announcement – Further Impacts to Risk Adjustment

Health Care Law Brief

The 2024 EGR also accounts for effects from COVID-19 and other changes, such as lower morbidity from excess COVID-19-related deaths, lower total spending due to shifts in care from inpatient to outpatient settings (e.g., hip and knee replacements), and to reflect an increase in dual-eligible beneficiaries enrolling in MA.

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Preventing Genetic Testing Fraud: 5 Actions for Health Plans

Healthcare IT Today

billion by 2026 , driven in part by direct-to-consumer testing for health risks such as breast cancer and physician orders for prenatal testing, tumor molecular profiling and sequencing to diagnose rare disease. Such scenarios demand vigilance from health plans and new approaches to preventing inappropriate billing before it starts.

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Home Health PPS Proposed Rule for CY2023: More Bad News for the Home Health Industry

Hall Render

The proposed reduction to home health reimbursement stems from the requirement that CMS “annually determine the impact of differences between assumed behavior changes … and actual behavior changes on estimated aggregate expenditures” under PDGM every year from 2020 to 2026. Behavioral Analysis and COVID-19.