Risk adjustment definition

Risk adjustment means an actuarial tool used to calibrate premiums paid to health benefits plans or carriers based on geographical differences in the cost of health care and the relative differences in the health risk characteristics of employees, annuitants, and family members enrolled in each plan. Risk adjustment establishes premiums, in part, by assuming an equal distribution of health risk among health benefits plans in order to avoid penalizing employees, annuitants, and family members for enrolling in a health benefits plan with higher than average health risk characteristics.
Risk adjustment means the process by which relative risk factors are assigned to individuals or groups based on expected resource use and by which those factors are taken into consideration and applied.
Risk adjustment means the compensation that would be required for bearing uncertainty about the amount and timing of the cash flows that arise from non-financial risk.

Examples of Risk adjustment in a sentence

  • Risk adjustment data are all data that are used in the development and appli- cation of a risk adjustment payment model.

  • Risk adjustment factors for each payment year are based on risk adjustment data submitted for items and services furnished during the 12-month period before the payment year that is specified by CMS.

  • Risk adjustment is designed to compensate plans for the increased cost of treating older and sicker beneficiaries, and thus discourage plans from preferential enrollment of healthier individuals.

  • Risk adjustment of Medicare capitation payments using the CMS-HCC model.

  • Risk adjustment was implemented to pay Medicare Advantage Plans more accurately for the predicted health cost expenditures of members by adjusting payments based on demographics (age and gender) as well as health status.


More Definitions of Risk adjustment

Risk adjustment. A methodology to account for the health status of enrollees via relative risk factors when predicting or explaining costs of services covered under the contract for defined populations or for evaluating retrospectively the experience of MCOs contracted with the State.
Risk adjustment means an actuarial tool used to calibrate premiums paid to health benefits plans or carriers
Risk adjustment. An actuarial tool used to calibrate premiums paid to Health Insurance Issuers based on geographical differences in the cost of health care and the relative differences in the health risk characteristics of Enrollees enrolled in each plan. . Risk adjustment establishes premiums, in part, by assuming an equal distribution of health risk among Health Benefits Plans in order to avoid penalizing Enrollees for enrolling in a Health Benefits Plan with higher than average health risk characteristics.
Risk adjustment. MEANS AN ADJUSTMENT TO THE PAYMENT FOR PRIMARY CARE SERVICES THAT IS DETERMINED BY QUANTIFYING A PATIENT'S COMPLEXITY BASED ON OBSERVABLE DATA, ADDRESSING THE TIME AND EFFORT PRIMARY CARE PROVIDERS SPEND IN CARING FOR PATIENTS
Risk adjustment. MEANS AN ADJUSTMENT TO THE PAYMENT FOR PRIMARY CARE SERVICES THAT IS DETERMINED BY QUANTIFYING A PATIENT'S COMPLEXITY BASED ON OBSERVABLE DATA, ADDRESSING THE TIME AND EFFORT PRIMARY CARE PROVIDERS SPEND IN CARING FOR PATIENTS OF DIFFERENT ANTICIPATED HEALTH NEEDS, AND INCLUDING SOCIAL FACTORS SUCH AS HOUSING INSTABILITY, BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ISSUES, DISABILITY, AND NEIGHBORHOOD-LEVEL STRESSORS.
Risk adjustment as defined in Section 2.13. “Sale” as defined in Section 10.9(b). “Sanctioned Country” as defined in Section 4.22(a). “Sanctions” as defined in Section 4.22(a). “SDN List” as defined in Section 4.22(a). “S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Rating Services. “Secured Cash Management Agreement” means any Cash Management Agreement between any Credit Party and a Secured Cash Management Bank, in effect on the Closing Date or entered into thereafter, to the extent that (x) Capital One, National Association or any of its Affiliates is the Secured Cash Management Bank or (y) the Borrower Representative and such Secured Cash Management Bank have notified Agent in writing of the intent to include the obligations of such Credit Party arising under such Cash Management Agreement as Secured Cash Management Obligations, and such Secured Cash Management Bank shall have acknowledged and agreed to the terms contained herein applicable to Secured Cash Management Obligations, including the provisions of Sections 2.10, 9.13 and 10.24. “Secured Cash Management Bank” means a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender (or a Person who was a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender at the time of execution and delivery of a Cash Management Agreement) who has entered into a Cash Management Agreement with a Credit Party. “Secured Cash Management Obligation” means, as to any Person, all obligations, whether absolute or contingent and however and whenever created, arising, evidenced or acquired (including all renewals, extensions and modifications thereof and substitutions therefor), of a Credit Party arising under any Secured Cash Management Agreement.
Risk adjustment means methodologies applied to a data set in order to identify and control patient variables that are present which may influence patient outcome.