A trusted partner providing accurate, timely, and comprehensive mortality data to the healthcare industry.
For over 35 years, Berwyn has been a leader in population data management. Today, over 2,000 organizations rely on CertiDeath® to receive validated death results.
Because getting it right means everything to those you serve in healthcare.
Berwyn boasts a comprehensive death database capturing data on 96.5% of deaths that occur in the U.S. annually, but our solutions go beyond just the data. CertiDeath further validates deaths within an identified population on an ongoing basis. CertiDeath identifies decedents with 99.9% accuracy by using a database containing records from over 40,000 sources and our team of experts validate the results.
Results from CertiDeath are delivered on a weekly basis, providing you with prompt notifications after an individual in your population passes away.
Accurate, timely, and comprehensive mortality data is critical to the healthcare industry for a variety of use cases:
Payment Integrity
Robust mortality data informs pre-payment checks and post-pay audits. This is also a valued resource for Special Investigations Units (SIUs) to curb fraud, waste, and abuse.
Provider Data
Improve your credentialing processes and provider directory accuracy by staying informed when physicians are no longer practicing.
Required Materials
Payers send out large numbers of plan and member-specific healthcare materials (ID Cards, EOBs, Summaries of Benefits), exposing their operations to possible fraud and wasted print/postage for deceased beneficiaries.
Quality
Accounting for deaths when they occur during periods of eligibility can swing experience and utilization data favorably across razor thin cut points in Medicare Stars ratings as well as HEDIS and CAHPS programs.
Death audit accuracy applies to payers, hospitals and clinics, employer groups, healthcare vendor partners, state Medicaid offices, and various trade groups in the healthcare industry. All healthcare stakeholder groups should have the confidence that their business functions receive comprehensive and verified accurate death record data. Without the timely notification of a deceased beneficiary or physician, this can expose them to overpayments or even fraud, waste, and abuse from excess utilization. Lacking accurate and timely death data can lead to inefficient operations from eligibility data feeds, or even misleading conclusions from healthcare economics data analysis.
Prevent false positives with a validated death audit.
The healthcare industry should have zero tolerance for false positives that could lead to a beneficiary being denied their benefits to get the care they need. This is why selecting Berwyn’s CertiDeath solution provides a peace of mind with 99.9% accuracy.
In addition, Berwyn has a comprehensive set of locate solutions designed to help you have the most recent and accurate information on your population, and potential beneficiaries, and manage outreach to validate information, including handling returned mail.
Take the simple step and reach out to us. We are population management data experts and are eager to learn how we can help you better manage your
population, provide valuable insight to your research, or assist in your outreach efforts.