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Washington, D.C. \u2013 Today, Oregon\u2019s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, Louisiana\u2019s U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D., Minnesota\u2019s U.S. Senator Tina Smith, and Kansas\u2019 U.S. Senator Roger Marshall sent a bipartisan letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Mehmet Oz, M.D., urging the agency to work with Congress to address the persistent issue of overpayments in Medicare Advantage. This bad-faith practice, known as upcoding, occurs when health insurance companies add unsupported diagnosis codes to a patient\u2019s medical record to make them appear sicker and secure higher payments, even if enrollees do not receive treatment for those conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The bipartisan group of Senators write, \u201cWe are pleased to see that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed a key provision of theNo Unreasonable Payments, Coding, or Diagnoses for the Elderly (No UPCODE) Act<\/em> to exclude diagnoses from unlinked chart review records from risk score calculations in the 2027 Medicare Advantage (MA) and Part D Advance Notice. While we hope to see this finalized, we believe the evidence requires Congress to pass the No UPCODE Act <\/em>to truly address the persistent issue of risk score gaming and to curb abuses in coding intensity.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cAs you are already aware, health insurance companies engage in \u2018upcoding,\u2019 which occurs when \u2018unsupported diagnoses inflate risk-adjusted payments and drive improper payments in the MA program,\u2019\u201d <\/strong>continuaron. \u201cAccording to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), in 2025, CMS was projected to overpay MA by $40 billion or 10 percent due to \u2018upcoding,\u2019 overstating the health differences between MA and fee-for-service enrollees.\u201d<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The lawmakers\u2019 letter precedes CMS finalizing 2027 payment rates for Medicare Advantage and directs the agency to work with Congress to address upcoding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Merkley and Cassidy also lead the bipartisan\u00a0No UPCODE Act<\/em><\/a>, a bill to crack down on Medicare Advantage plans overcharging taxpayers for care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full text of the letter can be found by clicking\u00a0aqu\u00ed<\/a>\u00a0y sigue a continuaci\u00f3n:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dear Administrator Oz:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are pleased to see that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed a key provision of the No Unreasonable Payments, Coding, or Diagnoses for the Elderly (No UPCODE) Act<\/em> to exclude diagnoses from unlinked chart review records from risk score calculations in the 2027 Medicare Advantage (MA) and Part D Advance Notice. While we hope to see this finalized, we believe the evidence requires Congress to pass the No UPCODE Act <\/em>to truly address the persistent issue of risk score gaming and to curb abuses in coding intensity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As you are already aware, health insurance companies engage in \u201cupcoding,\u201d which occurs when \u201cunsupported diagnoses inflate risk-adjusted payments and drive improper payments in the MA program.\u201d According to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), in 2025, CMS was projected to overpay MA by $40 billion or 10 percent due to \u201cupcoding,\u201d overstating the health differences between MA and fee-for-service enrollees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We were pleased to see that CMS has begun to address upcoding by proposing to exclude diagnoses submitted through chart review records that are not linked to a specific encounter record. As the Office of the Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) found, unlinked chart reviews \u201cresulted in an estimated $6.7 billion in risk-adjusted payments for 2017.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, diagnoses submitted through unlinked chart reviews are just one source of excess risk score growth that increases MA payments beyond beneficiaries\u2019 true health status. Congress should do more to address upcoding, like directing HHS to exclude diagnoses collected from health risk assessments and all chart reviews. According to MedPAC, between 2020 and 2023, half of the higher coding intensity in MA was attributable to diagnoses collected using these tools. In addition, the No UPCODE Act<\/em> proposes to exclude diagnoses from both unlinked and linked chart reviews, due to growing concerns that insurers may seek to recapture lost diagnoses by linking chart reviews to specific encounters, potentially dampening the effect of the proposed change to exclude diagnoses from unlinked chart reviews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, Congress should direct HHS to modify the risk adjustment methodology to incorporate two years of diagnostic data rather than one year of data, in order to capture conditions that are not consistently reported year-to-year, such as underreported chronic conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, Congress should direct HHS to adjust payments based on the true coding pattern differences between MA and fee-for-service Medicare. MedPAC\u2019s preliminary 2026 assessments finds that, net of the statutory minimum coding adjustment, higher MA coding intensity will increase payments to MA plans by 4% in 2026, suggesting that a higher coding pattern adjustment is needed to achieve actuarial equivalency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We appreciate CMS\u2019s steps to address payments to MA plans arising due to \u201cupcoding\u201d and the opportunity to comment on the 2027 Medicare Advantage and Part D Advance Notice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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