Overview

Although Trella Health has the most current Medicare data possible, there is still a timeline of events that occur each quarter before the data can move from a claim submission to Marketscape.

In summary, here are the approximate release dates:

• First Quarter (January through March) released the middle of August
• Second Quarter (April through June) released the middle of November
• Third Quarter (July through September) released the middle of February of the following calendar year
• Fourth Quarter (October through December) released the middle of May of the following calendar year.

For more details on the timing of these releases, see below.

Release Timeline

• CMS compiles and processes claim data for a specific quarter.
• CMS releases the data approximately two weeks after the close of the following quarter. From experience, this tends to be between 105-110 days from the end of the quarter for which the data was compiled. It is possible for this release period to be extended.
• Trella Health requests the data, performs massive analytical evaluation and uploads it to the proper location. This requires about 4 weeks.
• The total time from the end of any given quarter to data release in the Solutions is about 135 days. You can simplify this and think, “about 4 and a half months.”

Please use the following diagram to visualize the timeline:

Data Release Dates

If we use the basic timeline above and wrap it around a calendar of four quarters, we can identify some estimated dates for the data releases:

• First Quarter (January through March) released the middle of August
• Second Quarter (April through June) released the middle of November
• Third Quarter (July through September) released the middle of February of the following calendar year
• Fourth Quarter (October through December) released the middle of May of the following calendar year.