what is a health risk score
A risk score is a numeric representation of the health status of your patients based on factors developed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Each patient has a risk score and your practice has one too. The practiceâs risk score is an average of the risk scores for all your patients. Remember that your practiceâs risk score is a numeric representation of the health status of your patients based on the ICD-9-CM codes submitted by most of the providers who have treated that patient.