Healthfirst to implement MedAssurant's Star Advantage solution

MedAssurant, Inc., a leading provider of data-driven healthcare solutions, today announced that Healthfirst, Inc., will implement Star Advantage™, MedAssurant's quality outcomes improvement solution that enables health plans to both better understand and meaningfully impact their CMS Five-Star Quality Ratings. Star Advantage leverages the nation's most widely used healthcare quality measurement system, large-scale healthcare dataset analytics and a nationwide clinical operations infrastructure to proactively identify and, both efficiently and effectively, resolve gaps in member quality outcomes.

Star Advantage's predictive analytics are informed by MedAssurant's Medical Outcomes for Research on Economics and Effectiveness (MORE2) Registry™ which contains more than 5.2 billion medical events from more than 77 million unique de-identified individuals. Leveraging the unprecedented insight afforded by this comprehensive dataset, Star Advantage gives Healthfirst near-real-time insight needed to identify highly specific opportunities for quality improvement; recommend highly effective intervention based on the individual member's needs, history, and current situation and then deliver targeted interventions using MedAssurant's national and local clinical resources.

Leveraging nationwide quality performance data insight, member behavior, predictive analytics and a deep in-market intervention infrastructure, MedAssurant provides an end-to-end capability to achieve meaningful results. Today, of the insured population within the United States, MedAssurant systems support the calculation of approximately 60% of clinical and quality outcomes measures.

"Healthfirst is committed to the achievement of high-quality and cost-effective care," said Dan McCarthy, Chief Operating Officer of Healthfirst. "Implementing an expansion of our partnership with MedAssurant is part of our strategy to achieve this important goal. Together with our staff and highly valued providers, MedAssurant's Star Advantage solution gives us the necessary insight into where our needs are, as well as expands our toolset to positively impact the health of our members and meet our quality goals."

Keith Dunleavy, M.D., President and Chief Executive Officer of MedAssurant, added, "More than ever before, health plans are being called on to not only measure quality of care, but to improve it in a meaningful way. Healthfirst is a valuable partner, and we are honored to be working with them in their dedication to delivering high-quality, member-focused care."