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SDOH data is increasingly required for quality reporting, care management, and value-based contracts — but most warehouses treat it as an afterthought. Here is a practical data model that makes SDOH analytically useful.
Duplicate patient records, fragmented provider directories, and inconsistent plan data are MDM failures. Here is how to design MDM architecture for the three core healthcare domains.
Your Snowflake storage costs are climbing 40% per month. Queries are timing out. Your claims report just cost $847 to run. Here's how to build healthcare data models optimized for Snowflake's architecture—with clustering, materialized views, and cost controls.
CMS disallowed $4.2M in risk-adjusted payments because your data model couldn't prove HCC documentation. Here's how to build audit-ready risk adjustment models that track encounters, validate diagnoses, and survive RADV audits.
Your claims data warehouse reconciliation doesn't match the 835 remittance files. Counts are off. Paid amounts differ. Here's how to build claims data models that track the complete adjudication lifecycle and maintain financial accuracy.
Your healthcare data warehouse has members, claims, and providers. But when compliance asks for HEDIS reports, your model breaks. Here's how to build logical data models that handle retroactive eligibility, claim adjustments, and regulatory compliance.
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