CensusRater Closes the Small Group Underwriting Gap News provided by Share this article Share this article LYNNFIELD, Mass., May 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Advanced Medical Strategies (AMS), a healthcare IT company that provides clinical insights and financial analysis of the costliest and most complex medical diagnoses, today announced the launch of CensusRater. Housed on the AMS Predict Platform, CensusRater is the company's latest innovative use of real-time claims data that empowers brokers to quickly assess a group's total claims cost at varying specific deductibles, based solely on census data. Accurately evaluating groups looking to transition from fully insured to self-funded benefit plans can be a financially risky endeavor, particularly with little, or no, recent claims data to evaluate. Additionally, obtaining member-reported health questionnaires is a time-consuming and mostly inaccurate representation of the group's true risk. CensusRater solves these data gap problems by comparing a group's census data to the actual claims of similar sized groups, in similar states, by age and gender, with similar claims rates.