CMS officials proposed Friday (Feb. 20) a plan for changing star ratings to help Medicare Advantage plans that may be affected by serving a large population of poor beneficiaries. The agency plans to halve the weight of several star-rating measures that are not adjusted for socio-economic status while it researches whether dually eligible beneficiaries really do unfairly hurt plans' performance scores and, if so, how to fix the problem. Plans have complained for some time that inclusion of poor beneficiaries,...