HEALTH ANALYTICS

Milliman Advanced Risk Adjusters

At the heart of population health analytics

Milliman Advanced Risk Technologies®

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OVERVIEW

Clarify risks. Decide with confidence.

Milliman Advanced Risk Adjusters (MARA)™ is a platform-independent software product that fuels population health analytics and helps customers implement financial decisions, payment arrangements, and care support programs with confidence.

A more transparent risk scoring by health service category invigorates analytics and fuels applications that require greater insight. With MARA, risk scores are more granular, demonstrating the influence of health issues on plan design, service delivery, benefit utilisation, provider risk burden, and segmentation for efficient case selection.

MARA SOLUTIONS

MARA is loaded with new features

MARA Version 4 offers clients more risk models and optimised machine learning risk adjustment options, all with improved predictive performance. Software features improve efficiency to process risk scores faster than ever. MARA includes new segmentation tools for clinical users – Rising Risk™, chronic and complexity indicators to ease identification of manageable cohorts and power clinical workflow.

MARA – Version 4

Models for commercial, Medicaid and Medicare populations
Concurrent and prospective models
Smarter linear regression models, or optimised, machine-learning models
Models for the type of available data such as pharmacy only, medical only, or comprehensive data
Risk scores describe risk by health service categories
Greater transparency — over 1,100 clinical conditions assess risk
Contribution of clinical conditions improve individual assessment

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MARA Clinical Risk Assessment

More than 1,100 transparent clinical conditions for “Whole Person” clinical assessment

Consider all the medical and social conditions that influence risk
Identify actionable conditions vs. those that need immediate stabilisation
Contributions of some conditions are greater than others
Chronic and Complexity Indicators make it easy to segment members for care coordination — members with at least 1 Complexity Indicator are more costly than members with any other single condition

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Stay Ahead of the Risk Curve – MARA Rising Risk Model

Identify rising risk earlier
Assess and plan before risk rises
Improve outcomes
Reduce costs

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New data? Need customisation?

MyMARA™ is a model development service to customise any MARA model for new applications, or custom-fit to a unique population.
MARA coefficients are the backbone and adjustments are based on client data.
Customization may add new variables: economic, social, biometric, employee shift, industry, job class, or EMR or HRA data.

Want top-performing models? Choose MARA

MARA models led the competition in performance in the 2016 study by the Society of Actuaries, “Accuracy of Claims-Based Risk Scoring Models.” achieving the highest overall performance among concurrent models, beating out eleven other vendors. MARA’s prospective models scored similarly well, ranking at or near the top in all four primary metrics measured.

MARA model performance continues to show improved performance for commercial, Medicaid and Medicare populations.

MARA Solutions

On-premise software puts you in control

The power of MARA is in its simplicity: a platform-independent product for Windows, Unix, and Linux environments. Processing options are flexible — graphical user interface, batch model or application processing interfaces. Our technical support team can get you up and running in a matter of days.

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Leadership

Our team

The Milliman Advanced Risk Technologies team is a group of risk adjustment product experts and healthcare actuaries dedicated to developing top-performing risk assessment models and easy-to-use software. We’re passionate about building better longitudinal healthcare analytics tools and empowering healthcare stakeholders to solve complex cost and care challenges.

Diane E. Laurent

Managing Director, Milliman Advanced Risk Technologies/MARA

Elyse Orkin

Principal & Director of Operations and Client Services

Elyse Orkin is the Director of Operations & Client Services for the Milliman Advanced Risk Adjusters (MARA) product. Elyse is currently responsible for leadership and strategic initiatives for the MARA product, including oversight of financials, account management, reporting and analytics, and product releases.

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