edgedata - Datasets that Support the EDGE Server DIY Logic
Datasets from most recent Center for Consumer Information
and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO) DIY entry in a tidy format.
These support the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services'
(CMS) risk adjustment Do-It-Yourself (DIY) process, which
allows health insurance issuers to calculate member risk
profiles under the Health and Human Services-Hierarchical
Condition Categories (HHS-HCC) regression model. This
regression model is used to calculate risk adjustment
transfers. Risk adjustment is a selection mitigation program
implemented under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care
Act (ACA or Obamacare) in the USA. Under the ACA, health
insurance issuers submit claims data to CMS in order for CMS to
calculate a risk score under the HHS-HCC regression model.
However, CMS does not inform issuers of their average risk
score until after the data submission deadline. These data sets
can be used by issuers to calculate their average risk score
mid-year. More information about risk adjustment and the
HHS-HCC model can be found here:
<https://www.cms.gov/mmrr/Articles/A2014/MMRR2014_004_03_a03.html>.