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Medicaid: Data Improvements Needed to Help Manage Health Care Program

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date May 13, 1993
Report No. IMTEC-93-18
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Summary:

Although high-quality data are needed to help manage the Medicaid program and to provide critical input to urgent national health care issues, the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) has done little to ensure the data's accuracy and completeness. Many studies have shown that the data states are reporting from their Medicaid information systems are often inaccurate, inconsistent, and incomplete. HCFA has not fixed these problems because it has not viewed resolution of data deficiencies to be a high priority. As a result, the lack of quality data has made it hard to determine how well people are being served by Medicaid.

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