RADAR on Medicare Advantage, June 5, 2025

Following up on promises to root out fraud, waste and abuse in government-sponsored programs, CMS on May 21 stunned the industry with a bold plan to rapidly expand risk adjustment data validation audits (RADV) used to collect overpayments from Medicare Advantage plans. And on May 30, CMS informed all MA organizations that they have until June 16 to make corrections to their risk adjustment data for payment years 2020 to 2024, before CMS starts pulling samples for the RADV audits it intends to complete early next year.