Down in the trenches of Medicare Advantage primary care, most providers in the business know the importance of HCC coding. However, for the busy practitioner who is taking care of the patient and dealing with an alphabet soup of mandates such as HEDIS, STAR, HCAHPS etc, it is quite a task to pay attention to HCC coding in real time. As a result, providers fall short and have to answer then queries from coders re HCC codes that may have been missed.

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