See Cut Point Exposure Early.
Every measure, every contract, against the current cut points and the weights CMS publishes. Find the bubble measures while there is still time in the year.
Quality Intelligence And
Managed Analytics For
Medicare Advantage.
See every Star Ratings measure against the current cut points, then decide what to close first.
- Starts on public CMS data
- No PHI to begin
- Run by your team or ours
Statin Use in Persons with Diabetes84%
Next cut point 87%
Within reach
Medication Adherence for Hypertension89%
1 point above the cut point below
At risk
Eye Exam for Patients with Diabetes82%
Next cut point 86%
Holding
Clear insights lead to Five Star outcomes
What Does ClearStars Do For A Medicare Advantage Plan?
We show you where every Star Ratings measure stands against the current cut points, which gaps are data capture and which are care delivery, and what to close first. Use the platform yourself, or let our team run the data and reporting for you. Every number comes with its source.
What Changes With ClearStars
See the platform
Take The Report Desk Off Your Team.
We build and run the pipelines, warehouse and recurring reporting, documented so your team can run it without us.
For quality and clinical teams
Close The Gaps That Move Outcomes.
Split data capture gaps from care delivery gaps, then rank what to close first. Your clinicians get a short list tied to real patients, not a months old report.
- Ranked by weighted impact on the rating.
- Traced to the claim or record that moved it.
From Public Data To Action
Each step earns the right to ask for more. Nothing starts with your members' records.
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Start
Start on published CMS data. No PHI, no BAA, no security queue.
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Analyze
See each measure against the current cut points, contract by contract.
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Identify
Separate data capture gaps from care delivery gaps, then rank them.
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Execute
Close them with your team, or with ours running the data work.
Why CMS Star Ratings Decide The Year
A Star Rating is a weighted average of measure stars, and CMS redraws each measure's cut points every year. A better rate than last year can still earn fewer stars.
Weights. CMS weights improvement measures at 5, outcome and intermediate outcome measures at 3, and process measures at 1. Patient experience, complaints and access measures dropped from 4 to 2 beginning with the 2026 Star Ratings.
Cut points. CMS recalculates them each year by clustering the actual distribution of contract scores, after removing extreme low outliers. For most measures, a cut point cannot move more than 5 percentage points in one year.
Dollars. Contracts rated 4 stars or higher earn a 5 percent bonus added to their county benchmark.
That is why we rank measures by weight and by distance to the next cut point, and show the CMS source beside every figure. CMS decides Star Ratings. We show where each measure stands and what to close first.
Sources: 42 CFR 422.166, Part C Star Ratings methodology. 42 CFR 423.186, Part D Star Ratings methodology. CMS, CY 2027 Advance Notice, as finalized in the CY 2027 Rate Announcement.
Ways To Work With Us
Run the platform yourself, starting free on public CMS data, or have our team run the data and reporting for you. Every tier shows its price or how it is quoted. The managed team starts with a conversation.
QuaSAR Platform
Run it yourself. CMS decides Star Ratings; the platform shows where you stand and what to do next.
Meteor
FreeNo agreement needed
For a first look at your contracts, at no cost.
- Contract metrics
- CMS Stars performance and benchmarks by contract
Comet
$2,500/yrAnnual only
For quality teams who want every public data module, with no new data agreement.
- Every public data module and analytic
- Not included: AI or machine learning
Asteroid
$2,500/moMinimum, plus $0.25 PMPM above 10,000 members
For plans ready to work at the patient level, inside their own cloud.
- Patient level analytics in your own cloud
- Machine learning
- Not included: Generative AI
Supernova
By quoteYour cloud, your models
For organizations ready to run generative AI on their own data.
- Generative AI applications deployed in your own tenant
- A self hosted fine tuned model, or a third party model you already use
- Retrieval, MCP and Skills built on your data
Services
Have our team run the data work, with Meteor included.
Managed Data And Analytics
Pipelines, warehouse, Star Ratings reporting and measure monitoring, run by ClearStars as your data team, documented to outlast us.
- Recurring Star Ratings reporting, on a published cadence
- Measure monitoring against the current cut points
- Runbooks your team can take over
- Meteor, the free platform tier, included
Inside The Platform
Every measure against the current cut points, weighted the way CMS weights it, with the source for every number.
Contract H0000, measure by measure
2027 Star RatingsWithin reach
2
Close to the next cut point up
At risk
1
Near the cut point below
Bubble measures
1
Ranked by weighted impact
| Measure | Weight | Rate | Next cut point | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breast Cancer Screening | 1 | 80% | 83% | Holding |
| Controlling Blood Pressure | 3 | 83% | 84% | Within reach |
| Medication Adherence for Diabetes Medications | 3 | 87% | 89% | At risk |
| Colorectal Cancer Screening | 1 | 73% | 75% | Within reach |
Built For The People Accountable For The Rating
Health Plans
For quality and Stars leaders who want to see the year coming, and analytics teams who want the report desk off their plate.
See ClearStars for health plansValue Based Care And Provider Groups
For medical leaders who need a short list tied to real patients, not another dashboard.
See ClearStars for value based careVendors And Consultants
For firms that need a data and analytics team behind their own delivery.
See ClearStars for vendorsInsights
Star Ratings mechanics and digital quality measurement, sourced to CMS and NCQA.
Questions We Get
The questions plans and provider groups ask first, answered plainly.
No. Meteor and Comet run on published CMS data, with no PHI and no BAA. Patient level work starts at Asteroid, in your own cloud, under a BAA.
No. ClearStars is not certified by NCQA to calculate its quality measures, and nothing we deliver is presented as a certified result. Certification is on our roadmap.
No. CMS calculates and publishes Star Ratings. We show where each measure stands against the current cut points and which gaps are worth closing first.
Your choice. Your team can run the platform, or our Managed Data and Analytics team can run the data and reporting work for you. Either way, everything is documented so your team can take it over.
From CMS. Rates come from CMS Star Ratings measure data, and cut points from the CMS Star Ratings Technical Notes. Every figure shows its source. Where CMS published no value, the field stays blank rather than imputed.
Yes. Value based care organizations and provider groups work with our Managed Data and Analytics team on their own data: claims, encounters, pharmacy, supplemental data, EHR extracts, attribution files and plan gap files, with Asteroid for patient level work. Vendors and consultants use our managed team behind their own delivery.