Data mixup sent to hospitals
Hmmm. I'm still trying to figure out exactly what "individual validation results" means....
In any event, Judi Hasson writes in Government Health IT:
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), part of the Department of Health and Human Services, sent out an urgent e-mail to more than 400 hospitals last week, notifying them that they had received the wrong data from a contractor and asking them to destroy it.
The contractor, the Iowa Foundation for Medical Care of West Des Moines, Iowa, had forwarded individual validation results for hospitals to check their quality data submissions for the third quarter of this year. But wrong coding caused more than 400 hospitals to get the wrong data.
posted by Fergie @ 6/15/2005 01:42:00 PM
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