Where an NGHP fails to report required information as a result of the plan’s inability to obtain the individual’s first or last name, date of birth, gender, Medicare beneficiary number (MBI), SSN, or last five digits of the SSN and the plan has made good faith effort to obtain this...
through the first three digits, to give readers an idea of the proposed placement in the code set of the potential code changes. These codes will not be used for claims reporting and will be removed and not retained when the final CPT Datafiles are distributed on August 31st ...
The only difference between the two aims was the number of comparisons being made. In Objective 2, proxy-reports were divided into three subgroups by the relationship between the subject and the proxy. Hence, we have three comparison groups: (1) spouse proxy-reports vs. patient-reports; (2)...