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Medicare Advantage 2024 Rate Announcement – Further Impacts to Risk Adjustment

Health Care Law Brief

Based on public comments from the Advance Notice, CMS will implement these changes subject to the Phase In and anticipates that by 2026 100% of the risk scores will be calculated using the updated model in the Rate Announcement. See 88 Fed. 6643 (Feb.

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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.

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CMS Issues CY2024 Proposed Rule for Medicare Advantage Organizations and Part D Sponsors

Healthcare Law Blog

The Proposed Rule includes changes on an array of topics including: Star Ratings, medication therapy management, marketing and communications, health equity, provider directories, coverage criteria, prior authorization, behavioral health services, identification of overpayments , requirements for valid contract applications, and formulary changes.