CMS’ 2023 Risk Score Trend Includes Controversial In-Home HRAs

After CMS on Wednesday (Feb. 3) released its 2023 Medicare Advantage and Part D Advanced Notice, the agency clarified that in-home Health Risk Assessments are factored into the risk score trend, which the agency projects leading to a 3.5% pay bump. In the run-up to the announcement, stakeholders clashed over the role in-home health risk assessments should play for MA beneficiaries. In a fact sheet on the MA and Part D rate notice, CMS projected plans would see an almost...