News Briefs: CMS Projects MA Plans Will Receive Average Pay Boost of 3.7% in 2025
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Feb 01, 2024
Medicare Advantage plans next year can expect to receive, on average, a 3.70% increase in risk adjusted revenue, according to the 2025 Advance Notice of payment changes for MA and Part D plans, released on Jan. 31. That’s when taking into account a 2.45% revenue decline stemming from CMS’s phased-in risk model revision and fee-for-service (FFS) normalization, an effective growth rate of 2.44% and an average increase in risk scores of 3.86%, according to a CMS fact sheet. CMS this time last year estimated that plans would see a modest rate increase of 1.03%, but revised that projection to 3.32% for 2024 after deciding to phase in changes to the CMS-Hierarchical Condition Categories risk adjustment model starting this year. CMS said it plans to proceed with the phase-in as described in last year’s rate notice and is “proposing updates to the Part D risk adjustment model to reflect the redesign of the Part D benefit as required by the IRA.” CMS requested comments on the proposals by March 1; the final rate notice is expected to be released no later than April 1. Read more
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