Bipartisan legislation takes aim at Medicare Advantage upcoding

New legislation introduced in the Senate by Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) seeks to curb overpayments to Medicare Advantage plans by imposing changes to MA risk adjustment. The No Unreasonable Payments, Coding, or Diagnoses for the Elderly (No UPCODE) Act seeks to do this by improving the way MA plans assess patients' health risks. The senators expect the bill, if

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