The CMS division of HHS produces a freely available algorithm for determining the diagnosis risk of cost for beneficiaries. The problem with this freely available algorithm is that it is written in a technology, SAS , that is not freely usable.1
We at Algorex Health have reimplemented the HCC algorithm in Python with two aims in mind. First, we want to promote truly free algorithms for value-based analytics, contributing to a community ethos of open-source population health libraries.
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