CMS TEAM Risk Analytics Enablement

The Problem: Why CMS TEAM Risk Analysis Is Especially Complex

The CMS Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM) introduces new requirements for episode construction, attribution, and risk analysis.
While the logic is well-defined, operationalizing it consistently is challenging.

Organizations often struggle with:

  • Episode data spread across multiple claims and clinical sources
  • Complex episode boundaries and inclusion/exclusion rules
  • Timing mismatches between clinical events and claims availability
  • Difficulty producing analytics that are consistent, reproducible, and explainable

As a result, CMS TEAM analytics efforts can become fragile, manual, and difficult to scale.

What This Use Case Entails

Enabling CMS TEAM risk analytics is a data engineering and analytics enablement challenge, not an actuarial one.

This use case typically involves the ability to:

  • Integrate claims, encounter, and reference data required for episode analysis
  • Construct episode timelines aligned to CMS TEAM specifications
  • Prepare datasets that support deterministic risk and utilization analysis
  • Enable analytics outputs suitable for reporting, review, and downstream workflows

When done correctly, CMS TEAM analytics become operationally reliable and defensible.

How TechVariable Approaches Care Gap & Care Plan Enablement

We approach CMS TEAM enablement by focusing on data integrity, deterministic logic, and traceability, while respecting actuarial and regulatory boundaries.

Our typical approach includes:

Claims & Episode Data Integration

Preparing claims and related datasets required to construct CMS TEAM episodes accurately.

Episode Construction & Alignment

Operationalizing episode timelines and rules in alignment with CMS TEAM definitions and guidance.

Analytics Pipeline Enablement

Designing repeatable analytics workflows that support utilization, risk, and cost analysis at the episode level.

Transparency & Traceability

Ensuring analytics outputs can be traced back to source data and episode logic for review and validation.

This approach allows CMS TEAM analytics to be consistent, explainable, and scalable.

A Simulated Walkthrough of this capability

In the walkthrough, you’ll see a simulated visual demonstration of how CMS TEAM risk analytics enablement typically works. The walkthrough focuses on enablement patterns and data workflows, not actuarial decision-making.

Access the Walkthrough

Get a short walkthrough showing how care gap management and care plan workflows can be enabled using interoperable data, analytics, and automation.

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