title: New risk adjustment may cut Medicare payments.
abstract: A medicare proposal to adjust capitation rates according to health factors would boost the predictability of care costs and capitation accuracy, but lower payments to managed care organizations.
authors.affiliation: Birch & Davis Health Management Corp., Silver Spring, Md., USA.
authors.forename: P L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Grimaldi
mesh_terms: D002204:Capitation Fee / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000191:economics*; D006278:Medicare / Q000191:economics*; D020379:Risk Adjustment / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States