Quality and Care Gaps
Payer gap lists arrive as spreadsheets and die in a drawer. Run outreach from your own list and book the screening while the patient is on the line.
Nobody is short of data about who is overdue. Payers send it, registries produce it, and the EMR reports it. What is missing is a person free to make 200 calls in December, because that person is answering the phone that will not stop ringing.
A large share of open gaps are closed care that lives in someone else's system. Capturing the facility and date on the call converts a fruitless recall attempt into a records request, and stops your practice from scheduling a duplicate the patient will not attend.
HEDIS measures maintained by NCQA, a subset of which CMS uses for Medicare Advantage Star Ratings, close on a calendar. Outreach capacity that does not depend on how busy the front desk is turns Q4 from a scramble into ordinary work spread across the year.
Telling a patient they are overdue for a cancer screening is a clinical communication. Your practice writes exactly what is said, what is not said, and where the conversation stops, and the system delivers that language identically on every call.
Outreach from your list
Payer gap files, registry reports, or a query your team runs, worked as scheduled outbound
Dozens of languages
Gap outreach and callbacks handled in the patient's language, including through a caregiver
HIPAA BAA included
Gap, outreach and outcome data encrypted with AES-256 at rest and TLS in transit
No. The list is yours, produced from your registry, your EMR report, or a payer file. The system works the list you supply and never applies clinical criteria of its own to decide who is overdue for anything.
The Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set, a standardised measure set developed and maintained by NCQA. CMS uses a subset of those measures within Medicare Advantage Star Ratings, which is why plans send practices gap files and why the closing date matters.
Only within language your practice has authorised, and it stops there. It does not counsel, does not discuss risk, and does not answer clinical questions. Those route to your team under the escalation rules you wrote.
Outcomes are recorded on each attempt, and where an interface exists the schedule can be checked so a booked patient drops off the list. Available through API or FHIR for supported systems, and through secure workflow automation otherwise.
No. The mechanism is the same for commercial value-based contracts, Medicaid programmes, and a practice's own internal quality goals. Medicare Advantage gets attention because the measurement calendar and the reporting stakes are the most visible.
That is captured as a structured outcome and honoured. Your practice controls the list, the calling windows, and the number of attempts, and a documented decline is a better result for reporting than an unanswered call repeated six times.
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