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Healthcare Data Modeling

Logical Data Models for Healthcare Risk Adjustment: Accuracy, HCCs, and CMS Reporting

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.

10 min read·Mar 23
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Healthcare Data Modeling

Logical Data Models for Healthcare Claims: Accuracy, Adjudication, and Payments

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.

10 min read·Mar 23
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Healthcare Data Modeling

Logical Data Models in Healthcare: Members, Claims, Providers, and Compliance

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.

10 min read·Mar 23
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Healthcare Data Modeling

Why Your "Perfect" Logical Model Still Produces Bad Metrics

You spent months designing a logical data model. Your ERD is pristine. Then the metrics report lands on the CFO's desk—and nothing matches. Here's why even the best logical models produce garbage metrics in healthcare, and how to fix it.

10 min read·Mar 23
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Data Architecture

Data Warehouse Design Patterns: Star vs Snowflake Schema

Compare star schema and snowflake schema designs for data warehouses with practical examples and guidance on when to use each pattern.

8 min read·Feb 24
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Healthcare Interoperability: HL7 FHIR Data Models

Understand HL7 FHIR resources and implement healthcare interoperability data models for patient data exchange and system integration.

10 min read·Feb 24
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