The new V28 policy incorporates a payment formula that changes how risk scores are calculated, prioritizing patients’ existing diagnoses over algorithmic predictions of their future risk. CDRP associate director and MedPAC commissioner R. Tamara Konetzka suggests penalties might need to be introduced.

On January 15, WBEZ featured a recent JAMA Network Open study, Eviction, Collective Efficacy, and Firearm Violence in Chicago, by Thomas Statchen, CDRP faculty affiliate Elizabeth Tung, et al, which used participant data from the Healthy Chicago Surveys from 2021 to 2023, and neighborhood-level data from the City of Chicago to show that a 1% increase in the census tract eviction rate was associated with 2.66 additional shootings within 1000 feet of the individual’s home.