…water risk management firm) created a benchmark with which to assess risk when it comes to investing in the water sector. Ceres has put out another report on the importance…

“Medicare Advantage: Questionable Use of Health Risk Assessments Continues to Drive Up Payments to Plans by Billions,” Office of Inspector General | Government Oversight | U.S. Department of Health and…

…13% reduced risk for prostate cancer, an 18% reduced risk for digestive system cancer, and 32% reduced risk for pancreatic cancer. Meanwhile, associations for colorectal, liver, lung, and stomach cancer…

…leverage and equal risk. The good old fashion diversifiable risk is costly, but less socially costly that common risk. Improved risk management (really genuine improved risk management which, other things…

…or that some people are at a higher risk of adverse events from vaccination? Does it consider that different vaccine doses or schedules may reduce the risk of adverse events?…

…MA plans relative to FFS spending for similar enrollees. For 2020, MA risk scores were 9.5 percent above FFS risk scores. The difference was partially offset by the coding intensity…

…that affect federal payments to the plans. Plans have several techniques for inflating risk scores by loading on superfluous diagnoses, including the home risk assessments and chart reviews flagged by…

…for the country for the Treasury to bear risk, so the risky returns act as automatic stabilizers. After the jump, I quote Doug Elmendorf explaining what they do (and indirectly…

by Linda Beale Barney Frank and the need for a risk-based bank fee That post about the McCain-Paul environmental devastation and revenue decimation bill (somehow mistakenly given the label of…

…borrowers of funds. Their position is “fragile” in that there is a possible contagion effect from counterparty risk and “similarity risk”. If one bank goes bad, depositors can reasonably assume…