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CMS is again recalculating Medicare Advantage Star Ratings after litigation over its methodology, with plans that benefit required to notify CMS by June 22; the move adds near-term revenue volatility to a bonus pool now worth roughly $16 billion and raises integrity concerns around measure calculation, appeals, and plan bidding assumptions (STAT). In parallel, OIG’s new Medicare Advantage industry-specific guidance sharpens scrutiny of risk adjustment, chart review, coding intensity, and vendor arrangements, while Arbital Health’s ATLAS launch signals growing demand from ACOs to model downside risk and benchmark exposure under CMS’s LEAD ACO program (PR Newswire.

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