Care Decoded

Care Decoded

Care Decoded is the go-to podcast for clinicians, health plan leaders, and quality champions navigating the evolving world of risk adjustment, value-based care, and smarter documentation. Hosted by Inferscience, this show takes you inside the workflows, decisions, and technologies that turn clinical complexity into clarity. From demystifying HCCs and RAF scores to decoding CMS changes and exploring the impact of AI, we help you understand the data behind every diagnosis. This show isn't about theory. It's about impact. Not about compliance. But confidence. Not about more clicks. But clarity at the point of care. If you're building the future of care – one chart, one visit, one code at a time – Care Decoded is your ultimate guide.

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October 8, 2025 17 mins

Welcome back to Care Decoded! In this episode, we dive into the second part of our RADV miniseries, shifting focus from what RADV is, to the crucial role of frontline providers in ensuring accurate, defensible documentation as part of everyday care. Host Mark McKeown is joined once again by Colleen Gianatasio, an expert in risk adjustment and value-based care with over 20 years of experience.

Together, they explore why provider docu...

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Welcome to a brand new episode of Care Decoded! In this episode, host Mark McKeown is joined by renowned risk adjustment and coding expert Colleen Gianatasio to kick off a special two-part series diving into CMS’s heightened focus on RADV (Risk Adjustment Data Validation) audits. As Medicare Advantage plans face unprecedented scrutiny with CMS now pledging to audit all eligible contracts every year, the stakes have never been highe...

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Welcome to another episode of Care Decoded, the podcast where we break down the most pressing issues in modern healthcare. In today’s episode, host Michael Lesnik, VP of Provider Sales at Inferscience, sits down with Dr. Sunil Nihalani, CEO of Inferscience and a practicing physician, to unravel the complexities of “care gaps”, those critical yet often overlooked opportunities to improve patient care and outcomes.

Drawing on over fif...

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Welcome back to Care Decoded, the podcast where we make sense of the evolving world of healthcare documentation, coding, and clinical AI. In today’s episode, hosts Dr. Sunil Nihalani and Biodun Kajopaiye, Risk Adjustment and Stars Manager at CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, dive into the seismic changes brought about by version 28 of the CMS HCC risk adjustment model. Whether you’re a seasoned pro or new to the world of risk adjustm...

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Welcome back to Care Decoded, the show where we break down the complexities of risk adjustment, documentation, and the evolving role of AI in healthcare. In today’s episode, host Lucy Medina sits down with Dr. Sunil Nihalani, CEO of Inferscience and practicing physician, to tackle a topic that hits close to home for every clinician: documentation burnout. Together, they pull back the curtain on how clunky EHR systems, endless docum...

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Welcome to another episode of Care Decoded, the show where we break down the complexities of risk adjustment, documentation, and AI to power better healthcare. In today’s episode, host Dr. Sunil Nihalani is joined by Subbu Ramalingam — a seasoned former health plan executive and expert at the intersection of star ratings, risk adjustment, and healthcare quality.

Together, Sunil and Subbu dig into why star ratings aren’t just about c...

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Welcome to the very first episode of Care Decoded, where we peel back the layers of healthcare innovation with people who are reshaping the industry from the inside. In this episode, Dr. Sunil Nihalani, Founder and CEO at Inferscience, dives into his unconventional journey from his childhood in India where his family was far from medicine to the creation of Inferscience, a company dedicated to making risk adjustment and clinical do...

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May 7, 2025 1 min

Care Decoded is the go-to podcast for clinicians, health plan leaders, and quality champions navigating the evolving world of risk adjustment, value-based care, and smarter documentation. Hosted by Inferscience, this show takes you inside the workflows, decisions, and technologies that turn clinical complexity into clarity. From demystifying HCCs and RAF scores to decoding CMS changes and exploring the impact of AI, we help you und...

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