Informatics and Custom Analytics
The IMS Payer Informatics group is a team of PhDs, biostatisticians, physicians, statisticians and analysts that can be leveraged to support your programs. The team provides expertise in the following areas of program development:
Program Design
- Goal setting
- Reimbursement strategy
- Physician alignment
- Program evaluation
Measure Writing and Selection
- Recommend measures from the extensive IMS measure library
- Train on how to write and test measures with our tools
- Write new measures
- Import results from existing measures for searching and viewing in IMS Enhanced Provider Connect and for physician appeals in IMS Physician Exchange
Analytics Configuration
- Optimize display rates within your results
- Advise on the impact of settings
- Create “what if” scenarios showing the impact of choice of settings. For example, different outlier trim methodologies can be tested for addressing extreme costs that may skew the number of providers that appear in payer results
- Connect payers with other health plans who are implementing similar programs
Custom Analytics and Reporting
- Develop customized analyses of impact of payer initiatives on utilization and cost using both payer and IMS data assets
- Develop custom reports for clients
Communications Support
- Assist in communications with stakeholders.
- Prepare communications materials including white papers, analysis and recommendations
- Present methods and lead discussions to evaluate the implications of measures, scoring, analytics and configuration settings on results
