Payment Integrity & Oversight
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Payment integrity pressure on Medicare Advantage intensified this week as DOJ/OIG secured a $22.5M False Claims Act settlement with Independence Blue Cross over allegedly unsupported diagnosis codes used to inflate MA risk-adjustment payments—reinforcing that coding, chart review, and vendor-driven risk adjustment remain high-liability areas for payers and delegated risk entities. For ACOs, MA plans, and VBC providers, the enforcement signal overlaps with CMS’s broader oversight posture under the Trump administration, including scrutiny of AI-enabled utilization management and the WISeR model’s approach to reducing “wasteful and inappropriate” services, raising a key tension between payment accuracy, administrative burden, and access protections.
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