Fierce Healthcare April 26, 2018
The Medicare agency is finally making good on its promise to release encounter data that it collects from Medicare Advantage.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is planning to release encounter data from Medicare Advantage plans nearly a year after canceling a planned release that drew the ire of researchers.
Seema Verma, administrator at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), announced that the agency is releasing the sought-after data during her keynote address at Health Datapalooza on Thursday.
CMS has collected data from private insurers that administer Medicare Advantage plans since 2012 and began using it in 2016 to help calculate risk-adjustment payments but has not made the data public. The agency planned to release the...
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