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Medicare Advantage Risk Adjustment: Why CMS's Payment Cuts Didn't Raise Premiums

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What happens when Medicare Advantage plans receive lower payments under a new risk adjustment model?

Health Affairs Publishing’s Rob Lott speaks to Niru Ghoshal-Datta of the University of California, Berkeley about his recent paper exploring CMS’s updated Medicare Advantage risk adjustment model. They discuss how the policy change reduced payments to Medicare Advantage plans, had little effect on premiums and cost sharing, and led to modest reductions in some supplemental benefits

 
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