CMS changes key part of Medicare Advantage, is TrumpRx a good deal?

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Settling the (risk) score

Humor me for a moment. Let’s step into some weedy, but important, territory: The proposed 2027 Medicare Advantage regulation is even more significant than you may realize, and a lot of it has to do with “risk scores.”