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 utilization, provider risk burden, and segmentation for efficient case selection.
MARA – Version 4
- Models for commercial, Medicaid and Medicare populations
- Concurrent and prospective models
- Smarter linear regression models, or machine-optimized 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 — nearly 1,200 clinical conditions assess risk
- Contribution of clinical conditions improve individual assessment
MARA Clinical Risk Assessment
Nearly 1,200 transparent clinical conditions for “Whole Person” clinical assessment
- Consider all the medical, behavioral, and social conditions that influence risk
- Identify actionable conditions vs. those that need immediate stabilization
- Contributions of some conditions are greater than others
- Chronic, Frail and Complexity Indicators make it easy to segment members for care coordination — members with even one Complexity Indicator are more costly than members with a single condition
Stay Ahead of the Risk Curve – MARA Rising Risk Model
- Identify rising risk earlier
- Assess and plan before risk rises
- Improve outcomes
- Reduce costs
New data? Need customization?
- MyMARA™ is a model development service to customize any MARA model for new applications, or custom-fit to a unique population, or to predict a specific outcome.
- Customization can consider 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 for commercial, Medicaid and Medicare populations continues to show improved performance in the new v4 release.
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 mode or application processing interfaces for java and .NET.
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.
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