Reliability of Medicare hospital discharge records

Community breakdown

Bars show the community-aggregated score per category. Rate this book to contribute.

This report presents the findings of an assessment of the reliability of information describing hospital utilization by Medicare beneficiaries and obtained as a by-product of the Medicare administrative record keeping system. The information is generated primarily from claims submitted by hospitals to fiscal intermediaries for reimbursement purposes. The study was a logical extension of an earlier examination of the reliability of hospital utilization data compiled by private abstracting services and based on abstracts of medical records.