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Outpatient Efforts: One system's efforts to address physician practice documentation improvement needs

Basically, HCCs predict an individual beneficiary’s healthcare expenditures relative to the average  beneficiary. CMS uses the scores to adjust payments based on the health status and demographic characteristics of a beneficiary.

 

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