The article announces the changes that affect Medicare in the U.S. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has added numerous codes to eight of the 23 laboratory national coverage determinations established under negotiated rulemaking. The rate of interest that Medicare will pay for claims ...
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Second, the development of the patient cohort, patient characteristics, and outcomes were limited by the information captured in claims data, which are limited in the clinical and sociodemographic details they can provide. For example, we could not capture patient- or clinician-reported measures of ...
The data were packaged as three files: 1) a table of providers and their associated annotations, including their unique national provider identifier (NPI), address, summary statistics on numbers of claims, costs, etc.; 2) a table of drugs and their associated annotations includ- ing flags for...
In the current study, we considered conditions present if either one of the variables (the mid-year or end-of-year flag) for the disease indicated that the beneficiary met the number of claims criteria. Furthermore, a condition was considered present if a date for when beneficiary first met...
(Louisville, KY, USA) health plan claims for the period 1 January 2007 through 30 June 2014. The data sources for this study included member enrollment, medical, and pharmacy claims data and health plan benefit design data that were linked to each member via a unique patient identifier, plan...