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What is HCC Coding in Risk Adjustment?
Despite the pivotal role value-based care has in healthcare in the United States, it’s often not well understood. In the same spirit in which we covered the basics of risk adjustment and two-sided risk, today we want to tackle HCC coding in risk adjustment. With any luck, you’ll come away with a better understanding of […]
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What is two-sided healthcare risk?
Depending on your role at a health plan or risk bearing health system, you’re aware of value-based care (VBC) models. However, depending on the model itself (and sometimes within the same model of value-based care), there can be different variations of two-sided healthcare risk, also known as upside and downside. An organization’s level of engagement […]
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What is Risk Adjustment in Healthcare?
Risk adjustment is a critical part of both the financial and clinical aspects of healthcare in the United States. Still, even many people working in healthcare don’t really understand what it is, why it’s important, or how it works. First, what is risk adjustment? Healthcare for approximately 110 million Americans is provided by the US […]
