CMS' Long-Awaited Medicare Advantage RADV Final Rule: Significant Changes to Audit Methodology

Best Practices for Responding to and Challenging RADV Audit Findings

A live 90-minute CLE video webinar with interactive Q&A

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Wednesday, April 12, 2023

1:00pm-2:30pm EDT, 10:00am-11:30am PDT

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This CLE webinar will guide healthcare counsel on Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) long-awaited Medicare Advantage (MA) Risk Adjustment Data Validation (RADV) final rule. The panel will discuss the significant changes to the 2012 audit methodology for the MA RADV program. The panel will offer insights and best practices for responding to and challenging RADV audit findings.

Description

In January 2023, the CMS issued its long-awaited final rule related to MA RADV audits. The final rule reverses the inclusion of a so-called FFS adjuster in its 2012 methodology for extrapolating audit findings. CMS uses RADV audits to identify whether Medicare made overpayments to MA plans.

The rule limits extrapolation to plan years 2018 and beyond. For audits conducted between 2011 and 2017, CMS will only collect non-extrapolated overpayments identified.

The final rule's effective date is Apr. 3, 2023, and impacts MA organizations. Providers and risk adjustment vendors should also pay attention to the changes implemented in the final rule. With more than 29 million people having received Medicare benefits through MA, CMS anticipates it will recover about $479 million from MA organizations annually starting with payment year 2018.

Listen as our authoritative panel of healthcare attorneys examines the final rule and its significant changes to the 2012 audit methodology for the MA RADV program. The panel will offer insights and best practices for responding to and challenging RADV audit findings.

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Outline

  1. RADV final rule
  2. Changes to audit methodology
  3. Best practices
    1. Responding to audits
    2. Challenging audit findings

Benefits

The panel will review these and other crucial questions:

  • How does the final rule change the audit methodology?
  • What can MA organizations and healthcare providers do to prepare for potential audits?
  • What are the best practices for MA organizations and providers to challenge audit findings?

Faculty

Goel, Ankur
Ankur J. Goel

Partner
McDermott Will & Emery

Mr. Goel represents health insurers and other health industry clients on a wide range of issues including complex...  |  Read More

Stimson, Brian
Brian R. Stimson

Partner
McDermott Will & Emery

Mr. Stimson is the former Acting General Counsel and Principal Deputy General Counsel for the U.S. Department of Health...  |  Read More

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