Medicaid Risk Adjustment

By Susan McDonald


Numerous people all across the United States are currently using the Medicare Advantage plans that are offered through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services have worked to develop the Medicaid risk adjustment model as a way of calculating and determining the quantity and number of payments to be presented to the plan's members or beneficiaries.

Through this model the financial risk factor of each member is determined by looking at factors such as client history, diagnostic data as well as age and current health status. The risk factor of each plan member is the number, or cost, that they are likely to incur over the time span of one year. Risk adjustment is often used in the health insurance field and has been used by the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid services for numerous years and is persistently being developed and bettered.

The ability to estimate correctly what the cost of care is going to be for an individual member is a vital aspect in making a correct risk adjustment model. The risk adjustment model used by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services utilizes information that is gained through claims data as well as the client's health plan to develop the cost estimates for that member.

What this means is that an important role is played by the health insurance companies and their reporting of their clients health care. Health insurance companies plan a vital role in keeping the cost of the programs run by the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid services correct. There is so much information that is gained through claims reporting and is used as a way to base the risk adjustment numbers of Medicaid that it is vital that reporting is done correctly by the health insurance and health care suppliers. Correct and detailed reporting is something that can help to create more correct estimates and can help to lessen the number of mistakes.

Correct Medicare risk adjustment can help to limit the quantity of overspending on the budget of the centers of Medicare and Medicaid. To have proper and correct risk adjustment for each client, there needs to be more effort on correct reporting and open communication between the supplier, insurer and the Medicare Advantage program. There is a lot of promise when it comes to improving this system to more correctly estimate costs.




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