HealthLeaders Media March 21, 2024
The Match IT Act of 2024, now before Congress, would create a federal definition for ‘patient match rate’ that providers would address as they would a clinical quality measurement
KEY TAKEAWAYS
– Difficulties in matching patients to their medical records cost healthcare providers millions of dollars each year, causing unnecessary procedures, patient harm, and some deaths.
– Federal regulators and the healthcare industry have long argued over creating a unique patient identifier that would give each patient a code, like a social security number, to match that person to their medical records.
– A new bill before Congress would bypass that argument and create a national standard for patient matching, giving providers a bar to meet in matching patients to...
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