Coherence Inc. — Medicaid Program Stewardship, Platforms & Applied AI for State Agencies
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For State Medicaid & HHS Agencies

From Payer to Overseer: the future of Medicaid program stewardship.

We provide the "insider" expertise and production-ready platforms State agencies need to orchestrate complex program portfolios with confidence.

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The Insider
Advantage

We understand the Payer side because we build it.
We understand the State side because we steward it.

— That's why our data-quality checks know where MCO data breaks before it reaches the State.

The Shift

State Medicaid agencies are becoming stewards of a portfolio of programs.

Across the country, State Medicaid leadership is shifting from running every transaction to actively stewarding a portfolio of programs delivered through MCOs, Enrollment Brokers, Rural Health initiatives, 1115 waivers, value-based care arrangements, and AI-enabled vendors.

Stewardship requires more than passive reporting — it requires active coordination, multi-stream data integration, and the confidence to adopt AI safely. That's where Coherence comes in.

Yesterday

The Operator

Run claims & eligibility in-house
Single-vendor MMIS
Annual audits, point-in-time
Passive vendor reporting
Today & Tomorrow

The Steward

Orchestrate MCOs, EBs, Rural Health, waivers
Modular MES, multi-vendor portfolio
Continuous monitoring & insights
Active collaboration with partners
Platforms

The intelligence layer for Medicaid Program Stewardship

Production-ready platforms — informed by our insider knowledge of the payer systems data comes from.

Flagship Platform
Syntropy™ — The Medicaid Program Stewardship & Insights Platform

One mechanism to intake reports and data streams across the State's program portfolio, run smart data-quality checks informed by deep payer-system configuration experience, collaborate with vendors, and produce the insights that prove program efficiency and effectiveness.

Featured Business Capability
VanguardMC™ — Managed Care Compliance Module
Runs on Syntropy for continuous MCO oversight — comparing live plan performance against state contract terms, policy, and CMS requirements for compliance and audit readiness.
  • Multi-stream intake — reports, files, APIs, ad-hoc submissions
  • Insider data-quality — schema, business-rule, & anomaly checks built from how MCO data is actually generated
  • Active collaboration — issues, evidence, vendor responses, sign-offs
  • Continuous monitoring — KPIs and alerts vs. state & federal requirements
  • Stewardship insights — program effectiveness, equity, and outcome dashboards
Use cases across the program portfolio
Managed Care Stewardship Enrollment Broker Reporting Rural Health 1115 Waivers VBC Performance Vendor SLAs
Legacy Data Warehouses & PI Suites

Storage & retrospective compliance

Massive data lakes and reporting suites built for retrospective fraud, waste, and abuse audits — typically months after the data lands.

Coherence Stewardship — Syntropy™

Active stewardship & insider data-quality

An intelligence layer on top of existing data — designed for active collaboration, continuous multi-stream monitoring, and data-quality validation informed by deep payer-system configuration experience. Complementary to your warehouse, not a replacement.

State Offerings

Three pillars. One outcome: program stewardship, modernized.

Built for State Medicaid & HHS agencies: senior advisory, the Syntropy™ platform, and applied AI — working as one.

Pillar 1 · Advisory

State Advisory & Portfolio Stewardship

Subject-matter expertise to plan, deliver, and orchestrate Medicaid & HHS programs as a portfolio — with system-of-systems thinking across business, data, technology, and organizations.

  • Medicaid & HHS advisory aligned to current trends & CMS roadmaps
  • MMIS & HHS module implementation, PMO, IV&V
  • System-of-systems integration: business process, data, technical, organizational
  • Cloud-native engineering on AWS, with DevOps & agile delivery built in
For State CIOs, MES leadership, HHS programs  →
Pillar 2 · Platform

Syntropy™ Platform

The Medicaid Program Stewardship & Insights Platform — the intelligence layer that turns multi-stream program data into continuous oversight, with data-quality checks built on how payer systems actually generate data.

  • Multi-stream intake & insider data-quality checks
  • Continuous monitoring, alerts, & vendor sign-offs
  • Stewardship & outcome dashboards
  • VanguardMC™ — Managed Care Compliance Module on Syntropy
For State Medicaid leadership & program stewards  →
Pillar 3 · Applied AI

Applied AI & Deployment Framework

Production accelerators and pilot-enablement assets that convert modernization and AI ambition into shippable, audit-ready outcomes — defensibly, and at speed.

  • SaaS & PHI-aware AI agents — administrative and in-boundary workflows
  • Stewardship Eval Harness — accuracy, drift, bias & policy adherence
  • State AI Pilot Toolkit — governance, risk & deployment blueprints
  • MMIS modernization blueprints & certification artifacts
For program leaders ready to ship, learn, and scale  →
Applied AI

The Workhorse AI for State Medicaid stewardship

Two modes — chosen by what the data demands. Plus a Stewardship Eval Harness that keeps every decision defensible.

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Our agents aren't just interfaces; they are workhorses. Whether it's a SaaS-based agent handling reference data updates or a secure framework integrating PHI to accelerate prior-auth, we focus on the complex data integration and business rules that define Medicaid stewardship.

Mode 1 · Instant-On SaaS

SaaS Administrative Agents

Non-PHI · Instant-On

The high-volume, low-risk administrative burden that slows down program staff — handled in our SaaS environment. No PHI, no data-sharing agreements, no procurement marathon.

  • Reference data quarterly updates
  • Policy cross-walking & change tracking
  • Vendor manual synthesis & summarization
  • Bulletin & sub-regulatory guidance digests
Get a win with AI in weeks, not years  →
Mode 2 · Contextual Framework

Medicaid-Aware PHI Frameworks

Inside your secure boundary

Rapid-deployment agents that live within the State's secure boundary and do the "dirty work" — heavy data integration plus complex Medicaid business-rule decisioning for claims, eligibility, prior auth, and appeals.

  • Eligibility intake & document classification
  • Claims triage & complex rule application
  • Prior authorization routing
  • Appeals routing & evidence assembly
Insider edge: pre-configured to read Medicaid files with 99% accuracy  →
Eval · Continuous Monitoring

Stewardship Eval Harness

Defensible AI · Always on

Continuous monitoring that ensures AI decision-making aligns with State policy and federal equity standards — so every action stands up to oversight scrutiny.

  • Accuracy, drift, & policy-adherence checks
  • Bias & equity diagnostics
  • Benchmark datasets & regression dashboards
  • Audit-ready evidence for leadership & regulators
Make every AI decision defensible  →
Health Plan Offerings

Offerings for Health Plans

End-to-end payer operational expertise for the health plans States oversee — and payers modernizing on their own. Three offerings across Commercial, Medicare, and Medicaid: quality assurance, AI-accelerated system modernization on HealthEdge, and senior advisory.

Quality Assurance

QA & Automated Testing

Domain-specific automated regression suites — reusable and versioned across releases for every line of business.

  • Regression suites: Commercial · Medicare · Medicaid
  • Configuration, benefit & claims-adjudication testing
  • Interface / EDI (X12) & conversion validation
System Modernization

System Modernization — HealthEdge Specialty

End-to-end implementation, configuration, conversion, and stabilization for Medicaid & Medicare health plans on HealthEdge — AI-accelerated to compress the shift off legacy systems, de-risk cutover, and shorten timelines.

  • Implementation, configuration & conversion on HealthEdge
  • AI-accelerated legacy migration & data conversion
  • Stabilization, go-live & hypercare
Advisory

Payer Advisory & Strategy

Modernization roadmaps, operating-model design, and platform/vendor selection across Commercial, Medicare, and Medicaid.

  • Modernization strategy & roadmaps
  • Operating-model & org design
  • Platform selection & readiness assessments
Proven in production

The Health Plan (THP) — West Virginia

We delivered end-to-end QA & testing for THP's HealthEdge implementation — hands-on payer operational experience across Medicaid and Medicare lines of business.

About Coherence

A specialty firm built for the people who steward public-sector health programs.

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The TeamThought leaders, Agile evangelists, data specialists, and policy experts — committed to embracing excellence in everything.
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Our ExperienceDecades building payer platforms and innovative healthcare IT — expert-level consulting in technology assessment, solutions architecture, and analytics.
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Our ApproachProjects designed to deliver measurable outcomes — mission, business, and IT — through an agile process built on continuous innovation.
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Why UsExcellence is not a strategy but a mantra. From inception to delivery, we champion accountability, quality, and delivery with passion.
25+
Years in Healthcare IT
20+
Years in Medicaid / MMIS
10+
Different States of experience
AWS
Cloud partner
Clients & Partners

Trusted by State health programs, health plans, and the partners who serve them

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Amazon Web Services
Cloud partner — certified solution architects & developers
NEBRASKA Good Life. Great Mission. DEPT. OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Nebraska DHHS
State Health & Human Services client
NESCSO
NESCSO
New England States Consortium Systems Organization
The Health Plan (THP)
The Health Plan (THP)
Health plan client · HealthEdge QA & Testing
Coming soon Client success stories & case studies — new updates on the way
Let's talk

Ready to modernize program stewardship or pilot AI with confidence?

Tell us about your program portfolio, certification milestones, HealthEdge implementation, or AI ambitions. We'll respond within one business day with a tailored next step.

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Rockville, MD 20850

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