Medicare Advantage News: 2014 Star-Rating Changes Include Use of Individual-Measure Scores

In the draft 2014 “Call Letter” CMS issued Feb. 15, the agency backed away from several significant Medicare Advantage and Part D star-ratings changes it had been considering for 2014. But it is going ahead with two potentially very significant ones that would use actual individual-measure scores rather than star ratings for those measures in computing the key summary and overall star scores, and would boost the four-star cutoff points for measures related to the Million Hearts cardiovascular health initiative…