Longevity Health has earned a 5-star Medicare Advantage rating for its New Jersey Institutional Special Needs Plan, giving the payer its third 5-star contract following CMS’s recalculation of 2026 star ratings.
Longevity’s I-SNP plans in Illinois and North Carolina also earned the top rating for 2026.
The recalculation stems from a lawsuit Clover Health filed against CMS in November, alleging the agency’s star ratings methodology for 2026 improperly included 20 measures and cost the insurer roughly $120 million in missed bonus payments. A federal judge in Georgia ruled in Clover’s favor in late May, leading CMS to say June 17 that it would voluntarily recalculate star ratings for other plans as well.
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