Suzanne York

On March 10, 2022, Highmark Health, a health services company affiliated with several Blue Cross Blue Shield companies, issued a statement revealing that a subcontractor of one of its mail vendors, Webb Mason Marketing, was involved in a data breach that may have impacted as many as 67,147 Highmark members. According to the notification letter: […]

The Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services has issued a report entitled “Some Medicare Advantage Companies Leveraged Chart Reviews and Health Risk Assessments to Disproportionately Drive Payments.” The OIG undertook the review due to concerns that Medicare Advantage (MA) plans “may leverage both chart reviews and Health Risk

The Department of Health and Humana Services Office of the Inspector General has issued a report estimating that the Medicare program made $2.6 billion in risk adjustment payments to Medicare Advantage organizations (“MAOS”) in 2017 based solely on diagnoses reported in Health Risk Assessments (“HRAs”). The OIG further found that 80% of the estimated payments

On March 28, 2019, Judge John D. Bates, of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia struck down the Trump Administration’s Association Health Plan (AHP) Final Rule. The AHP Final Rule had been designed to allow small employers and individuals to join together to purchase health plans that would be less expensive