CMS Releases Interim Risk Adjustment Report For 2018 Plan Year

CMS on Friday released its interim report on risk adjustment scores for the 2018 benefit year, saying the scores give issuers a general idea of what the final scores may be but are likely to change once all claims are collected. The 2018 benefit year was the first in which HHS introduced its high-cost risk pool within the risk adjustment program, which reimburses issuers 60 percent of claims that reach $1 million, and CMS expects many issuers will submit the...