CMS to Freeze Risk Adjustment Payments to Health Insurers
MedPage Today By: Joyce Frieden The federal government will stop making risk adjustment payments to health insurers that have sicker-than-average patients, raising the specter of more premium increases by insurers to make up for the shortfall. … Withholding the payments will have both short-term and long-term effects, according to Edwin Park, JD, of Georgetown University. […]