Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Announcement of Calendar Year (CY) 2027 Medicare Advantage (MA) Capitation Rates and Part C and Part D Payment Policies (the CY 2027 Rate Announcement).
In the CY 2027 MA and Part D Advance Notice, CMS proposed updates to payment factors for CY 2027 and received a wide variety of comments on the proposals. CMS appreciates the submitted comments. We carefully considered all applicable comments as we finalized the policies contained in the CY 2027 Rate Announcement. The final policies in the CY 2027 Rate Announcement are projected to result in an increase of 2.48% or over $13 billion in payments to MA plans in CY 2027. When accounting for estimated risk score trend in MA due to factors such as population changes and coding practices, this amounts to a 4.98% increase.
This fact sheet discusses the provisions of the Rate Announcement, which can be viewed by going
to: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/payment/medicare-advantage-rates-statistics/announcements-and-documents and selecting “2027 Announcement.” ARTICLE
