Risk Adjustment & Coding
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CMS and enforcement agencies are tightening the Medicare Advantage risk-adjustment environment, with the Trump administration’s CMS moving to curb MA payment advantages while OIG and DOJ activity targets unsupported diagnoses, including alleged overpayments tied to acute stroke coding and major False Claims Act settlements. The strategic implication for VBC stakeholders is a shift from coding maximization to audit-ready documentation, clinically validated HCC capture, and defensible risk stratification—especially as AI-enabled coding tools are positioned as both an efficiency lever and a compliance risk if they amplify unsupported diagnoses. Providers, ACOs, and MA-aligned networks should expect tighter scrutiny of diagnosis persistence, chart evidence, and vendor workflows as CMS recalibrates MA payments and oversight intensifies around risk-score inflation (HFMA on CMS MA payment changes; OIG stroke diagnosis overpayment findings
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