HEDIS® is coming up fast. If your organization is still abstracting charts the same way it’s done it for decades, why? Could your team review more charts, improve reliability, get higher scores and get some sleep next April? Of course. Let computers handle more of the tedious work and free up your clinical reviewers to do more clinical reviewing. But isn’t it too late?
BHA Ocular is an abstraction system that uses character recognition to locate po
We are excited to announce the launch of a new free web application to help with your Medicare Advantage planning and analysis - the “Medicare State Browser.”
This is a free tool and let’s you easily compare the size of all MA Plans within a state, overlay Star Ratings, and dr
2022 has seen a remarkable improvement in Medicare Advantage Star Ratings. This year, a record 74 plans score 5 Stars. There are multiple factors driving this improvement, notably the disaster-related adjustments for covid-19. But we also see that larger insurers are becoming increasingly savvy about Star Ratings. For your armchair quarterbacks, we provide 3 different ways of looking at the data over a 5 year period:
All of BHA's publicly available Star Rating apps for Medicare Advantage are updated with 2022 Stars Data from CMS.
These include:
Stars Planner - Test out your contract's Path to 4 Stars.
Stars Explorer - View al
The new cut-point percent changes from 2021-2022 in Part-C & D metrics, displaying a separate graph for each Star Rating
As we are anticipating an Oct 7 release of CMS' Star Ratings data for all contracts, here's some information about the cutpoint changes in the PP2 Tech Notes. We've graphed the 2022 cutpoint changes so you can quickly see the relative change in 2022 versus 2021.
Keep in mind that both 2022 and 2021 data were collected in the midst of Covid-19 so these results aren't typical. If you want to see the long-term trend of all measure's cutpoints,