Optum GeoAccess® Disruption Analysis® Features

Better information for better decisions

Optum GeoAccess Disruption Analysis enables managed care organizations to effectively and accurately represent their networks and ultimately allows employers to make well-informed decisions by knowing in advance the impact of changing provider networks.

Key elements

• Data Cleaning—Automatically cleans and standardizes data from different sources into a consistent format to facilitate accurate matching and analysis.
• Provider Matching—Uses proprietary methodologies to automatically determine provider matches between different networks.
• Intuitive User Interface—Wizard-like format makes it easy to select network options, manage matches, and report results.
• Reporting—Various data display pages are available to make the communication of results consistent.
• Output Portability—Easily export resulting analysis into Microsoft® Access or Microsoft® Excel files to incorporate into existing spreadsheets

Disruption Analysis gives you the network coverage answers you need to strengthen your existing business and win new business. The software’s standardized approach saves you time and effort by simplifying the cumbersome process of collecting and analyzing provider data between networks. In addition, consistent, accurate reports quickly communicate the strengths and weaknesses in your network coverage, as well as which candidates to recruit for even better market positioning. Most importantly, Disruption Analysis enables you to present prospects with a well-researched, well-designed network that protects member/provider relationships while providing high-quality, low-cost care.

With Disruption Analysis, you'll find several manual matching capabilities, import/export capabilities, and multiple custom features.

Enhanced Matching—Match providers based on common nicknames and enable compound name matching from the new Providers tab of the Configure Match Profile window. The county role is now available as an optional match field. In addition, five new match types have been added to help you improve your rate of identifying shared providers
New Report Pages—Enhance your reporting. The Disruption Bar Graph Page enables you to represent the number of matched or not matched providers in multiple networks in a graph, especially helpful during mergers and acquisitions. The Disruption Summary Matrix page enables you to select Proposed Networks and compare each proposed network to the current network.
New Page Options—Filter data on your report pages based on their network status of in network or out of network using the new Network Filter option. If there is not a network status indicator in the current group, then one can be system generated if the incumbent network data is used.
Multiple Address Fields—Map up to three Address fields from your data table during group creation and Disruption Analysis can clean each one and use all three to attempt to match with the proposed groups.
New Supported Data Types—Supports Oracle, IBM DB2 and text files for creating groups and exporting data.
New Manual Match Options—Find and Match or Unmatch is available in the Manual Match tab of match preview. This allows you to search for any data item in your current group and automatically mark records meeting this criterion as a Manual match, or to unmatch them.
New Roles—Nine new roles have been added so to allow additional match and reporting options.
Custom Roles—Create custom roles for increased flexibility in identifying duplicate records and reporting.
Updated Options Dialog Box—Use a new Indicators tab to identify hospitals, facilities, and individuals and determine whether records are in or out the current network