Understanding the site of service for a claim is critical for understanding and interpreting medical claim data. The easiest way to assign a claim to […]
Continue readingFinding Non-NULL NULL Dates
As we saw in ”Why do 5% of My Services Occur on January 1, 1960?”, NULL dates are frequently passed to claims extracts as 0 […]
Continue readingInternational Classification of Diseases, Period!
The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD) is the most standardized set of codes used in healthcare and covers both diagnoses […]
Continue readingLeading with Nothing
Medical claims extracts will frequently drop the leading zeros from codes as shown in this dataset. It is important to add leading zeros back to your […]
Continue readingWhy are 5% of Services Occurring on January 1, 1960?
Claims data passed as an extract to either a vendor, state agency, or at-risk provider has usually been transferred over half a dozen times. It […]
Continue readingIntroduction to the Healthcare Data Quality Blog
Health care spending represents almost 20% of the United States GDP and just about every dollar of that spend is recorded on a medical or […]
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