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Retrospective Risk Review

Valiant Lifecare’s Retrospective Risk Review analyzes completed encounters and full-year medical records to identify missed conditions, validate HCCs, correct documentation gaps, and recover undervalued risk. Our process helps health plans and providers strengthen RAF scoring accuracy while ensuring compliance with risk adjustment guidelines.
Risk Adjustment

Identify Missed Conditions. Protect Revenue. Strengthen RAF.

Retrospective Review evaluates patient documentation after the date of service, giving organizations a complete and detailed look at chronic conditions, coding accuracy, and missing supporting elements. We help you recover overlooked HCCs, correct discrepancies, and prepare audit-ready summaries for year-end submission cycles.

Our Retrospective Review Services

We examine full-year patient data — charts, labs, outpatient visits, hospitalizations, imaging, specialist notes, and medication records — to identify missed or undocumented chronic conditions, correct coding discrepancies, and strengthen compliance for risk-adjusted populations.

HCC Gap Identification

Find chronic conditions that were treated but not documented or coded correctly during the year.

Documentation Sufficiency Check

Ensure each diagnosis meets documentation guidelines including MEAT or TAMPER validation.

Coding Accuracy & Error Review

Identify coding inconsistencies, unsupported diagnoses, and opportunities for corrected submissions.

Provider Clarification Queries

Send targeted queries to clinicians to reconcile unclear or incomplete documentation.

Audit-Ready Condition Summaries

Package findings into compliant summaries for risk adjustment submission and audit defense.

Year-End Risk Closure Support

Assist with final-year risk capture cycles, ensuring no chronic conditions are overlooked before deadline.

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Our Workflow

Our Retrospective Review Workflow

Our structured retrospective workflow ensures all risk-impacting conditions are validated and supported with compliant documentation. This helps organizations catch previously missed opportunities and reduce future audit exposure.

Chart & Claims Intake

Gather all available patient records, including specialist notes, labs, imaging, and prior coding.

Clinical Indicator Review

Identify symptoms, encounters, or treatments suggesting undocumented chronic conditions.

HCC Mapping & Validation

Cross-check diagnoses with HCC models and validate with MEAT/TAMPER rules.

Query & Clarification

Request missing details or clarification from providers when documentation is incomplete.

Condition Summaries

Create audit-ready summaries for validated diagnoses.

Submission Support

Prepare findings for final risk adjustment submission or reconciliation cycles.

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