Evergreen Health Cooperative could be forced to pay nearly $22 million to CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield as part of an Affordable Care Act provision that was initially designed to level the health insurance playing field. The fees are part of what’s known as risk adjustment costs. The provision requires insurers who take on healthier patients to pay insurers who have sicker clients. For health insurance co-ops across the country, including Maryland’s Evergreen, this could mean paying tens of millions…
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