What Is Risk Adjustment? Risk adjustment is an annual process that is used to appropriately compensate health plans for the costs associated with taking on members with chronic health conditions. With risk adjustment, if your health plan serves a higher than average percentage of chronically ill patients, it will receive risk adjusted payments. If it […]
Hierarchical Condition Categories and How They Affect Reimbursement Hierarchical Condition Category coding — or HCC coding — was implemented by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in 2004 to help estimate the healthcare costs of Medicare enrollees in the coming year. Today, Medicare Advantage plans, the Medicare Shared Savings Program, Medicaid, and private […]
The platform developed through this partnership will surface key insights from medical records-based real-world data while maintaining data privacy, including COVID-19 vaccine trials ALPHARETTA, Ga. February 10, 2021 – Ciox Health, a leading health technology company, today announced a strategic collaboration between its Real World Data (RWD) Division and HealthVerity, the leader in privacy-protected data exchange. By pairing HealthVerity’s real-world data ecosystem of more than 330 million de-identified patients from 75 leading data providers with Ciox’s state–of–the–art biomedical Natural Language […]
One of NCRA’s Highest Awards Honors Outstanding Contributions to the Profession ALPHARETTA, Ga. (February 2, 2021) – Ciox, a leading health technology company, today announces that Theresa “Terry” Vallerand, BGS, CTR, has won the Distinguished Member Award from The National Cancer Registrars Association (NCRA). Terry is the Senior Manager and Education Coordinator of Oncology Data Services […]
-Integration with EMRs driving provider participation and adoption -Payers experiencing improved accuracy, velocity, and expanded functionality, employing assistances for additional Payment Year 2020 reconciliation run December 16, 2020 – Alpharetta, GA - Ciox Health™, a leading health technology company, is accelerating the digital evolution of health data access and exchange. Payers and providers realize multiple benefits from digital access including greater accuracy, time […]
The pandemic has forced health care organizations to reevaluate how to best distribute protected health information. Elizabeth and Steve describe some of the measures that Ciox has taken to make the shift from on-site to hybrid and even fully remote workforces, including “The change in mindset around tools…People expect [the portal] now. If they can’t […]
25-year life sciences and technology veteran named President of Ciox RWD business ALPHARETTA, Ga. November 19, 2020 – Ciox, a leading health technology company, today announces Tal Rosenberg as President, Real World Data (RWD). A 25-year veteran in creating new value ecosystems and markets at the intersection of Life Sciences and Information Technology, Rosenberg has held various […]
What is Real World Data?
What is Real World Data (RWD)? Real world data is defined by its source. It’s any data that are captured at the point of care, in an actual clinical scenario or based on patient’s experience outside of the clinical setting. But this is not enough for it to be used in various phases of drug […]
CHICAGO — Oct. 8, 2020 — The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) and Ciox Health today announced that health information students now have access to the industry’s only experiential coding training and assessment solution—Ciox HealthSource Gym. The tool is available in AHIMA’s VLab™ platform, a digital practice environment for students to explore real-world healthcare technology and build career-focused […]
DALLAS, TX and ALPHARETTA, GA (September 24, 2020) — Signify Health, a leading provider of technology-enabled healthcare solutions designed to keep people healthy and happy at home, and Ciox Health, a leader in health information management, today announced a strategic alliance to develop a master patient record for payers and risk-bearing health systems participating in value-based […]