2026_07 July Release 2

Posted By: Suruthi K, 08/04/2026

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1) Eleven New metrics were added under BHA measures based on Clover rule and CMS Memo - Stars Rating Explorer (State & County tabs)

Summary Mean with 'Clover' Measures w/Impr
Summary Mean 'Clover' minus Original w/Impr
Summary Mean 'CMS Memo' Msrs w/Impr
Summary Mean 'CMS Memo' minus Original w/Impr
Summary Mean with 'Clover' Measures w/out Impr
Summary Mean 'Clover' minus Original w/out Impr
Summary Mean 'CMS Memo' Msrs w/out Impr
Summary Mean 'CMS Memo' minus Original w/out Impr
'CMS Memo' minus 'Clover' Measures w/out Impr
'CMS Memo' minus 'Clover' Measures w/Impr
2026 Recalculated minus 2026 Original

2) HED-KED caption name changes are completed across apps - Scenario Manager & Lookup Measure details

Stars Planner

Chart out a realistic plan to achieve 4 Stars with at-a-glance access to historical performance by measure for your contract and average scores for your competitors and peer organiztions. It is an interactive dashboard that keeps a tally while you set goals for each measure.

Contract History

Use this tool to show the history of all contracts within an organizantion and visualize how they have grown and merged while Star ratings have changed over time. Quickly compare the scores and star ratings for several contracts or compare the same contract for two years.

Star Measure Details

Quick lookup for all Star measures with CMS documentation.

Map of Medicare

Click here to get a snapshot of all Medicare Advantage plans by size and Overall Star ratings. Drill into details or change the measure displayed. You can page through prior years and quickly understand how Star ratings have changed over time.

State MA Population

Quick lookup for Medicare Advantage populations by state.

Quick Contract List

Click here to get a searchable list of all CMS Medicare Advantage contracts. From here you can view star ratings and population demographic, or you can launch our other tools for deeper analysis.

Computer Aided Abstraction

The BHA Ocular is used to read the text from any images or any scanned documents or any hand written papers or printed papers. This is mainly used in any kind of images containing written text into machine-readable text.

Health Data Management

Healthcare data is full of idiosyncrasies and our web applications are full of healthcare data. When you engage Baltimore Health Analytics on a project, you get the benefit of our years of experience solving the challenges that these present. Along with that, we have a library of programs that save time by solving very specific problems that we see again and again.

Transition Care Management

A system to manage the work health plans do to improve the NCQA Transitions of Care measure and CMS Star Ratings.