…asure also risk adjusts for patient-level factors, including comorbidities, demographics, disability status, recent use of long-term care, and dual enrollment in Medicare and Medicaid. These risk adjustment variables help ensure that the measure is accounting for higher complexit…

…hat derived from his own flesh and would bring him wholeness in union with her (vv. 21-22). As Adam breathes only because God breathed life into him, so also the woman’s life is not inherent within her, for she also derives her life from God. Together they exist solely at the ple…

…c could cause an overall decrease in assigned beneficiaries, and change the demographics of the assigned population (including beneficiaries' CMS-HCC risk profiles). Some commenters were especially concerned about the impact on ACOs under prospective assignment. For example, one …