hierarchical condition category

• 1 May, 2019
• blog

In 2004, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services introduced Hierarchical Condition Category (HCC) coding. Evaluating patient risk is as old as medicine itself. As early as the fifth century BCE, notes a 2011 study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Hippocratic tradition focused on the prevention of disease through diet and exercise.