CMS Releases 2022 MA Risk-Adjustment Model Early Due To COVID-19

CMS intends to fully phase in changes to its risk adjustment policies, including relying on encounter data and completing its transition to the 2020 version of the CMS-Hierarchical Conditions Categories model, the agency says in the first part of its 2022 Medicare Advantage advanced notice. CMS released part one of the 2022 notice three months earlier than usual to give MA organizations more time to prepare their bids in the midst of the pandemic. Under the 21st Century Cures Act,...