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Data Release Timeline

Overview

Although Trella Health has the most current Medicare data possible, there is still a timeline of events that occur each quarter before the data can move from a claim submission to Trella Health products.

In summary, here are the approximate release dates:

  • First Quarter (January through March) released early in September
  • Second Quarter (April through June) released early in December
  • Third Quarter (July through September) released early in March of the following calendar year
  • Fourth Quarter (October through December) released early in June of the following calendar year.

Note-width35.png For more details on the timing of these releases, see below.

 

Release Timeline

There are a number of steps that occur between the submission of a claim and Trella Health publishing metrics for your use.

  • CMS compiles and processes claim data for a specific quarter. This takes three months.
  • CMS releases the data approximately two weeks after the close of the following quarter. From experience, this tends to be between 105-110 days from the end of the quarter for which the data was compiled. It is possible for this release period to be extended.
  • Trella Health requests the data, performs massive analytical evaluation and prepares metrics for upload to the proper location. This requires about 5 weeks.
  • The total time from the end of any given quarter to data release in any Trella Health product is about 160 days. You can simplify this and think, “about five months and a week.”

Please use the following diagram to visualize the timeline:

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Data Release Dates

If we use the basic timeline above and wrap it around a calendar of four quarters, we can identify some estimated dates for the data releases:

  • First Quarter (January through March) released early in September
  • Second Quarter (April through June) released early in December
  • Third Quarter (July through September) released early in March of the following calendar year
  • Fourth Quarter (October through December) released early in June of the following calendar year.

The following image might help to visualize the data releases.

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