CMS may propose restarting $10B risk-adjustment payments

Modern Healthcare: The CMS may soon restart making billions of dollars in risk-adjustment payments to insurance companies with plans on the individual market via a new rulemaking.

The agency on Wednesday sent an interim final rule related to the payments to the White House Office of Management and Budget for review.

It's unclear what exactly the rule will do. However, health policy insiders say there are clues in the rule's name: "Ratification and Reissuance of the Methodology for the HHS-operated Permanent Risk Adjustment Program under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act."

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