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Many recent healthcare initiatives, including the Accountable Care Organizations that are created under health reform, utilize risk adjusters to compensate for the differences in disease status of the members.  These risk adjusters are used to establish payment targets that compare costs incurred by patients in the organization to what the costs “should be” based on those patients’ diagnoses.  The accuracy of the risk adjusters, therefore, is critically important when significant amounts of money are involved.  A small percentage difference between the risk-

In a previous posting, we extolled the virtues of Excel 2010 for healthcare data analysts.  Excel 2010 offers significant advantages over previous versions of Excel, as that article describes. 
 

I can hear the cries now.  "But we just had to learn Excel 2007 a few years ago.  Why do we have to learn something new now?"  Because it's worth it, so simmer down and take a serious look.