The Medicare Advantage (MA) Risk Adjustment Data Validation (RADV) audit is a vital process conducted by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to ensure the correctness of payments to MA plans. CMS determines monthly payments based on the health and demographic characteristics of each member,
Read More →Highlights from HCCA 2023 Managed Care Compliance Conference Presentation by Anne Crawford, ATTAC Consulting Group | Sandra J. Durkin, Strategic Health Law Click here to see full presentation
Read More →Medicare Advantage organizations may not have gotten the outcome they were hoping for in CMS’s recently finalized Risk Adjustment Data Validation rule, but industry experts say they weren’t surprised by the position CMS ultimately took after years of pressure to close out RADV audits and recover identified
Read More →The CDC released ICD-10 code changes that go into effect April 1, 2023. All of the code changes are related to improving the capture of Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) information. There are 42 code changes aimed at improved specificity when documenting SDOH conditions, including classifications of:
Read More →CMS released the Medicare Program; Contract Year 2024 Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage Program, Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Program, Medicare Cost Plan Program, Medicare Parts A, B, C, and D Overpayment Provisions of the Affordable Care Act and Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the
Read More →If you plan to enter the value-based insurance design (VBID) market, it’s important to understand the goal of the program in order to make decisions on how to structure it. VBID is a strategy that minimizes or eliminates out-of-pocket costs for high-value services in defined patient populations.
Read More →In a sweeping proposed rule for the 2024 contract year, CMS last month took a strong stance on multiple aspects of the Medicare Advantage program, from misleading marketing and prior authorization to quality gains incentivized by the Star Ratings. As plans digest the many changes proposed in
Read More →Exceeding 950 pages in its initial prepublication version, CMS’s most recent rule proposing policy and technical changes for contract year 2024 is the Biden administration’s most complicated and sweeping Medicare Advantage and Part D rule to date. Following a comprehensive request for information issued last summer on
Read More →A multi-state Medicaid plan faced a competitive bid for contract renewal. The state is moving to mandatory managed Medicaid for its standard Medicaid population as well as dual-eligible and long-term services and supports’ enrollees who need home- and community-based services. It was a substantial rebid with a
Read More →The demand for administrative simplification, particularly related to prior authorization, continues to increase On December 15, 2022, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a proposed rule for the Adoption of Standards for Health Care Attachments Transactions and Electronic Signatures, and Modification to Referral Certification and
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