Safety Net Plans Offer Recs For Addressing MA Coding Intensity

With Congress expected to address concerns about Medicare Advantage coding intensity next session, the Association of Community-Affiliated Plans (ACAP) is highlighting recommendations they say would improve scoring accuracy while considering the diversity of plan sponsors. ACAP, which represents non-profit safety net plans, also says it’s imperative Congress separately evaluate the impact of policy changes on dual-eligible special needs plans (D-SNPS), which ACAP says often cover frail and extremely complex populations but have lower levels of coding intensity compared to other...