No UPCODE Act
Official title: A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve risk adjustment under Medicare Advantage.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
No Unreasonable Payments, Coding, Or Diagnoses for the Elderly Act or the No UPCODE Act
This bill modifies certain factors that are used to determine Medicare Advantage (MA) payments, particularly relating to health status and related data.
Specifically, the bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to use two years of diagnostic data in its risk adjustment methodology for MA payments. It also prohibits the CMS from using diagnoses that are collected from chart reviews or health risk assessments when adjusting payments based on health status. The CMS must also take into account any differences in coding patterns between MA and traditional Medicare when determining MA payment adjustments.
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- BCBSM, INC.
- CVS HEALTH (AND SUBSIDIARIES)
- AMERICA'S HEALTH INSURANCE PLANS, INC. (AHIP)
- HIGHMARK, INC.
- AVENUE SOLUTIONS
- AVENUE SOLUTIONS
Bodies those filers lobbied
- SENATE
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)
- White House Office
- Office of Management & Budget (OMB)
- Labor, Dept of (DOL)
- Executive Office of the President (EOP)
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1105: No UPCODE Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-1105/
"S. 1105: No UPCODE Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-1105/.
S. 1105, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-1105/.
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