CMS finalizes Medicare Advantage star ratings overhaul, sending billions of dollars more to insurers

Rebecca Pifer Parduhn / healthcaredive - Regulators cut almost a dozen metrics that factor into the quality ratings and reverted back to an older and more generous bonus system. MA plans will get more than $18 billion in additional payments over the next decade as a result.

AI Summary: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services locked in a sweeping overhaul of Medicare Advantage star ratings that will shift billions of dollars in payments and alter plan incentives. The ruling adjusts rating calculations and enrollment provisions, prompting industry and provider concerns about downstream effects on access, plan behavior, and provider-network stability.

---

Warning: Undefined variable $thumbnail in /home3/thegood9/public_html/website_70aad9ea/cluster.php on line 61

Related Stories

---

Warning: Undefined variable $top_stories in /home3/thegood9/public_html/website_70aad9ea/cluster.php on line 128

Visa delays threaten doctor placements in underserved U.S. areas / 26 days

Cigna exits ACA exchanges despite strong Q1 profits / 4 wks

131 hospitals sue HHS over alleged Disproportionate Share underpayments / 1 month

Nearly 10% of surgeons exit clinical practice within eight years / 8 days

Healthcare bankruptcies jump 33% in Q1, spotlighting sector fragility / 19 days

Baylor Scott & White to exit Medicaid individual markets, cutting jobs / 6 wks

Providence to wind down most insurance operations by 2027 / 8 days