Pitfalls with Health Care Provider Data

By Claire Thayer, December 11, 2014

A U.S. Senate Committee investigation report finds that Medicare paid 478,500 claims attributed to deceased physicians, totaling up to $92 million, from 2000 to 2007. The U.S. Postal Service reports that at least 25-30% of the demographic and contact information for health care providers changes every year. The cost of bad or outdated provider data is estimated at $26 billion annually. These and other data points are featured in MCOL’s infoGraphoid this week:

MCOL’s weekly infoGraphoid is a benefit for MCOL Basic members and released each Wednesday as part of the MCOL Daily Factoid e-newsletter distribution service – find out more here.