Risk Adjustment & Integrity
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CMS under the Trump administration is tightening the economics of Medicare risk arrangements by revising LEAD Model methodology and proposing major CY 2027 MSSP financial changes, forcing ACOs to re-underwrite benchmarks, regional adjustment exposure, risk-track selection, beneficiary alignment, and TIN strategy ahead of PY 2027 (Wakely LEAD analysis; Wakely MSSP analysis). At the same time, integrity pressure is rising across the VBC stack: DOJ’s $14M Medicare Advantage upcoding settlement with Complete Health, new scrutiny of hospital-affiliated insurers’ ability to game payment rules, and insurer-level prior authorization transparency data all point to a policy environment where risk adjustment, coding discipline, and utilization management practices are becoming strategic—and compliance—determinants of margin. Mandatory bundled payment expansion through CJR-X further signals that CMS is pairing broader downside-risk participation with more aggressive guardrails against coding, benchmark, and utilization arbitrage.
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