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Quality:

Agencies' Fates Ride On Accurate Risk Adjustment

CMS punts on sociodemographic standards.

As with Value-Based Purchasing, numerous proposed rule commenters told Medicare they doubt risk adjustment is going to take care of patient inequities when it comes to calculation of the four new IMPACT Act-required quality measures.

The risk adjustment concern mentioned most often in the 89 comment letters on the [...]
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