Datavant Named 2026 Best in KLAS Award Winner for Risk Adjustment: Coding, Retrieval & Compliance Solutions and Outsourced Coding

Top ratings highlight payer and provider preference for customer service and outcomes-focused solutions

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Datavant, the data collaboration platform trusted for healthcare, today announced that it has been named the #1 Ranked 2026 Best in KLAS Award winner in both the Risk Adjustment: Coding, Retrieval & Compliance Solutions and in the Outsourced Coding market segments as part of the 2026 Best in KLAS: Software & Services report.

“Accuracy, completeness, and compliance are the standards our customers have to meet every day, and that bar keeps rising as regulations evolve,” said Kyle Armbrester, CEO of Datavant. “We are honored by this recognition because it reflects the confidence customers place in Datavant to deliver audit-defensible and outcome-driven coding operations at scale.”

The 2026 Best in KLAS report recognizes software and services companies who excel in helping healthcare professionals improve patient care. All rankings are a direct result of the feedback of thousands of providers over the last year. In addition to an overall KLAS score for each evaluated service, KLAS displays letter grades associated with five key customer service categories.

Risk Adjustment: Coding, Retrieval & Compliance Solutions: Delivering Accuracy and Completeness at Scale

This KLAS market segment includes technology and services that help organizations ensure complete documentation while meeting payer and regulatory requirements. As 2026 Best in KLAS, Datavant was rated #1 with an overall performance score of 90.5 out of 100 and earned an average grade of A- across KLAS’ customer experience pillars, including loyalty, operations, relationship, product and value, representing the highest average among evaluated vendors in the category. This marks the second consecutive year Datavant has earned recognition for its payer business in the Best in KLAS awards.

Datavant's end-to-end risk adjustment suite, built on the Clinical Insights Platform is powered by purpose-built AI that has been trained on medical records representing diverse patient populations across a variety of care settings. The healthcare-specific AI models interpret complex clinical charts and HCC coding with accuracy and completeness, enabling deeper insight and compliant results. By integrating with the platform, the suite enables customers to securely store, manage, share, and view charts and documentation while using AI to unlock deeper insight and become more data-driven in their risk adjustment strategies.

"Datavant's solution is helping us achieve coding adds and deletes, but most importantly, it is helping us achieve provider education and provider feedback,” said one customer manager interviewed in July 2025. “...It has been tremendously helpful for getting more real-time feedback to providers as opposed to quarterly feedback, being able to automate coding, and actually showing providers every single instance of their coding errors if they ask. We can’t do our jobs without Datavant's solution streamlining our coding efforts. It is the best program we have internally right now."

Outsourced Coding: Turning Strategy into Measurable Outcomes

This KLAS market segment includes engagements where a third-party firm is used to help with provider organizations’ inpatient coding, generally on an ongoing basis. As 2026 Best in KLAS, Datavant was rated #1, earning a market leading score of 94.9 out of 100, well above the category average of 88.4. Datavant also was recognized with a second-place finish in the Release of Information category, earning a score of 93.6, reinforcing its commitment to delivering trusted, high-performing solutions for healthcare organizations.

Datavant’s coding solutions are designed to help provider organizations address staffing shortages, rising complexity, and financial pressure without compromising quality or compliance. Datavant offers provider coding solutions at scale with more than 4.5 million charts coded annually and 98% coding accuracy. Providers partner with Datavant to improve accuracy, accelerate turnaround times, reduce denials, and long-term coding costs, often achieving up to a 50% reduction compared to internal staffing models.

“What I have always liked about Datavant is the people,” said one customer director interviewed in October, 2025. “The people we work with are dedicated to our account, and it is almost like we have another manager...They are ahead of things before we can even get to them, they forecast things pretty well, and they help us with our staffing. I like the personal dedication to customer service; Datavant was the first to provide that...”

To review Datavant’s KLAS performance data and read comments from Datavant clients, please visit https://klasresearch.com.

About KLAS

KLAS helps healthcare providers make informed technology decisions by offering accurate, honest, and impartial vendor performance information. KLAS monitors vendor performance through interviewing thousands of healthcare providers representing healthcare organizations throughout the US and here and there across the globe. KLAS uses a simple methodology to ensure all data and ratings are accurate, honest and impartial to help create market moving moments. Learn more at klasresearch.com.

About Datavant

Datavant is the data collaboration platform trusted for healthcare. With a mission to make the world’s health data secure, accessible, and actionable, Datavant works with payers, providers, life sciences, legal and insurance clients globally to accelerate insights. Datavant enables more than 60 million healthcare records to move between thousands of organizations across the healthcare ecosystem, more than 80,000 hospitals and clinics, 75% of the 100 largest health systems, and 350+ real-world data partners. Datavant has office locations in Boston, New York and San Diego, with international offices in Barcelona and Galway. To learn more about Datavant, visit www.datavant.com and follow us on LinkedIn.