Medicare Advantage Star ratings may decline with new methodology

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) uses a Star rating system to measure the performance of Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. MA plans overall saw an unprecedented improvement in Star performance in rating year 2022¹ : the enrollment-weighted average contract rating rose to 4.37 Stars, an all-time high in the program’s 12-year history.² This performance improvement was driven by temporary, favorable changes to the Star rating methodology initiated by CMS in response to the COVID-19 pandemic...