CMS to lower importance of ‘call center’ metric in Medicare Advantage star ratings
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Regulators’ assessment of customer support centers has spurred recent lawsuits from UnitedHealthcare, Centene and Humana. But the metric “is going to have a smaller weighting on star ratings moving forward,” the director of Medicare said.