Stakeholders To HHS: Allow Audio-Only Telehealth In MA Risk Adjustment

By Maya Goldman / June 4, 2021 at 4:29 PM
A group of 20 health care and insurance plan organizations are asking HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra and CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure to allow Medicare Advantage plans to submit diagnoses from audio-only telehealth appointments for risk adjustment. The groups want CMS to let MA plans use a 24-month look-back period to supplement 2020 data to calculate 2021 risk scores. In a Thursday (June 3) letter to Becerra and Brooks-LaSure, the organizations wrote that not allowing audio-only encounters to factor into MA...

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