It’s a Fascinating Story …
Cavo Health’s Precise Word Matching AI™ has a fascinating story behind it.
The story behind Cavo Health begins with an ambitious health plan CEO and a chance meeting at Bob Evans.
In 2016, a health plan CEO studied his risk adjustment coding results and concluded his health plan was reviewing charts with subpar accuracy and HCC completeness. He suspected there had to be a better way and wondered how technology might help.
One day while this CEO was eating breakfast at Bob Evans with the same thought running through his mind, he had a chance encounter with colleague George Witwer at a nearby table. He knew that George had spent his entire career leading a technology company that builds AI solutions for big, unstructured data and wondered whether George could build an AI solution to accurately auto-code medical records. He walked over to George and asked how his AI might find and accurately identify HCCs.
An idea was born.
George knew immediately that the AI solution needed to be a “precise” model with no ceiling on its ultimate accuracy — not a statistical, machine-learned model with a sub-par accuracy ceiling of 85% that could only “suggest” possible diagnoses.
Based on that precision-based premise, George led his AI team to develop Precise Word Matching AI — a completely innovative, exact approach to HCC completeness. And in that moment of need, Cavo Health came to life. The Cavo Health Precise Word Matching AI engine finds more than 96% of the HCCs in medical records before coders even begin coding — a unique technological achievement.
Today the Cavo Health suite of products automates virtually the entire risk adjustment coding workflow along with delivering the unprecedented auto-coding accuracy and HCC completeness of the world’s only Precise Word Matching AI engine.
Meet the Cavo Team
Meet George Witwer
Chief Executive Officer & Founder
In addition to overseeing Cavo Health’s technology and business teams, George leads the company’s strategy and new product roadmap. He is a technologist with more than 20 years of experience delivering products involving Big Unstructured Data with Advanced Search and Artificial Intelligence. In 2016, George based Cavo Health’s NLP technology on Precise Word Matching AI rather than Machine Learning. That is why Cavo Health finds over 96% of the HCCs in a medical record before coders even begin.
Meet Steve Butler
Senior Vice President Business Development & Founder
Steve brings more than 30 years’ experience in the healthcare industry focusing on sales and marketing. He brings a wealth of experience and knowledge in building and developing sales organizations, selling information technology products and services to payer organizations, healthcare systems and physician groups. Steve has worked for startup and public companies, and for the last thirteen years he has been responsible for selling HCC risk adjustment services and care management solutions to managed care organizations.
