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Federal enforcement pressure on Medicare Advantage risk adjustment intensified this week, with DOJ/OIG announcing Independence Blue Cross will pay $22.5M to resolve False Claims Act allegations tied to inflated diagnosis coding, while OIG separately released an MA diagnosis-code audit of UnitedHealthcare Benefits of Texas—reinforcing that CMS/HHS oversight under the Trump administration is moving from broad policy scrutiny into contract-level documentation, coding, and data-validation exposure for MA plans and delegated risk entities (DOJ settlement, OIG UnitedHealthcare audit). At the same time, CMS’s 2027 MA landscape shows plans trimming footprints and benefits, including dental allowances and premium givebacks, as carriers balance margin recovery against heightened compliance risk—raising downstream pressure on provider groups, ACO-aligned entities, and VBC partners that depend on MA supplemental benefits, risk-score revenue, and stable plan participation to fund population health infrastructure.
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