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A Provider's Path to Unlocking Smarter Decisions with Acumen's Dynamic Benchmarking Model
Provider groups are constantly asked to do more with less data. The focus is on improving outcomes, managing costs, and proving value in risk-sharing arrangements. At Accorded, we designed Acumen's Dynamic Benchmarking (DB) model to be that missing piece of clarity, helping providers see not just what's happening in their data, but how they compare to real-world peers.
Actuarial-Grade Data: The Difference Between Insight and Noise
Most analytics tools do one thing well: flatten whatever you send them into a single format so they can chart it. That's not intelligence. That's tablestakes. Actuarial-grade data is different. It doesn't just make data look consistent; it makes data better - so you can make calls with confidence.
A CTO's Guide to Build vs. Buy in Actuarial Analytics
As a CTO in healthcare, you frequently face the question: "Can we just build this ourselves?" Learn why 80% isn't good enough in healthcare data, and getting from 80% to 95%+ will consume far more of your engineering roadmap than the business will tolerate.
From Grouper to Strategy: How to Drive Performance with Episodes of Care
Episode-of-care analytics should give you more than data. Done right, they give you leverage: to redesign care, lower spend, and grow your impact. Learn how to turn episode data into strategy with three proven approaches.
Actuarial Analytics: How Accorded Is Transforming Healthcare Data Management
Discover how Accorded's Acumen platform is transforming healthcare data management by freeing actuaries from time-consuming data preparation. In a recent Society of Actuaries podcast, CEO Frank Cheung explains how this purpose-built solution helps actuarial teams shift from spending 90% of their time on data wrangling to dedicating 80% on strategic analysis.
The Analytics Advantage: Leveraging Data for Value-Based Care Success
In a recent webinar, Accorded CEO Frank Cheung and Value Strategies President & former Aetna Vice President Eric Fennel shared insights on how data analytics capabilities are becoming the key differentiator in value-based care success. Learn how healthcare providers can gain a competitive edge by proactively taking ownership of performance analysis.
Beyond the First 90 Days: Sustaining Long-Term Value-Based Care Partnerships
In a recent webinar, Accorded CEO Frank Cheung and Value Strategies President & former Aetna Vice President Eric Fennel shared essential strategies for sustaining long-term payer partnerships. Learn how continuous care model refinement, deeper payer relationships, and demonstrating ROI can help provider organizations thrive amid evolving VBC expectations and increased payer scrutiny.
The First 90 Days: Critical Success Factors for Value-Based Care Implementation
In a recent webinar, Accorded CEO Frank Cheung and Value Strategies President & former Aetna Vice President Eric Fennel shared critical insights on operationalizing value-based care agreements, emphasizing preparation, communication, and analytics as key drivers for successful implementation. Learn how to navigate the crucial first 90 days, establish effective communication cadences, set meaningful performance metrics, and leverage your own analytics capabilities to drive better outcomes with health plan partners.
Foundations for Success: Preparing for Value-Based Care Implementation
In a recent webinar, Accorded CEO Frank Cheung and Value Strategies President & former Aetna Vice President Eric Fennel shared critical insights on operationalizing value-based care agreements, emphasizing preparation, communication, and analytics as key drivers for successful implementation.
From Provider to Risk Bearer: The Evolution of Healthcare Analytics
At the recent Zus Summit, an invite-only gathering of healthcare leaders focused on accountable care, our CEO, Frank Cheung, FSA, MAAA, shared insights that resonated deeply with risk-bearing entities across the industry. One message stood out clearly: Actuarial analytics have become essential for success in value-based care.
5 Steps Before Rolling Out A Value-Based Contract
Diving into a value-based contract (VBC) isn't easy, but breaking it into key milestones can make it easier. In this blog by CEO, Co-founder, and actuary, Frank Cheung, we'll walk through 5 milestones you should meet before entering into a VBC.
3 Biggest Challenges for Actuaries in Value-Based Care
In the value-based care (VBC) space, actuaries have their work cut out. They juggle a lot, from handling tons of requests to finding the right balance between speed and detail. In this blog by Accorded Co-Founder and CEO Frank Cheung, we explore the 3 biggest challenges for actuaries in VBC and how Acumen, the actuarial data transformation platform, makes their job easier and more efficient.
The Power Couple of VBC: Actuarial Science + Modern Data Engineering
The relationship between actuarial science and data engineering, the difficulties of integrating them in-house for most healthcare companies, and how Accorded solves this problem.
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Why Is It So Hard to Evaluate Health Program Efficacy?
It's often said that HR leaders are in the health insurance business – and it's true. Sufficiently large companies tend to be self-funded, meaning they foot the bill for their health plan claims. Benefits teams do not just manage their company's benefits package, but spend a substantial amount of time trying to manage the health (and therefore risk) of their members.
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