The Shift in Star Ratings That Health Plans Can't Ignore | Managed Healthcare Executive

The Shift in Star Ratings That Health Plans Can't Ignore

Transitions of Care (TRC), Medication Reconciliation Post-Discharge (MRP), and Plan All-Cause Readmissions (PCR) significantly affect health plans' Star Ratings.

If you're still using claims data to manage care, you're already too late, as critical information about discharges, medication changes, or ED visits arrives weeks after a critical health inflection point.

care managers lose the opportunity to act when it matters most. You're managing complications instead of preventing them.

Transitions of care are where coordination most frequently breaks down, and where health plans have the greatest opportunity to influence outcomes across multiple quality measures.

Effective post-discharge coordination creates a compounding impact, including better medication adherence, closed chronic care gaps, and stronger member engagement that breaks recurring utilization patterns.

Author's summary: Health plans must adapt to new star rating measures.

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Managed Healthcare Executive Managed Healthcare Executive — 2025-11-03

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