Mike Adelberg Discusses Medicare Advantage Risk Adjustment, HHS Watchdog Report With POLITICO

Mike Adelberg discussed how Medicare Advantage (MA) plans are incentivized to detect conditions that yield risk adjustment bumps after a recent U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Inspector General report suggested that MA plans have collected $6.7 billion in improper payments.

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"The system [incentivizes] MA plans to work very hard to detect conditions that yield risk adjustment bumps, and so the MA plans work very hard to detect.” Mike Adelberg, POLITICO