Data concordance between ESRD Medical Evidence Report and Medicare claims: is there any improvement?

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Yi Mu¹  Andrew I. Chin²  Abhijit V. Kshirsagar⁴  Heejung Bang⁵ 

[1]Office of Population Health and Accountable Care, UCSF Medical Center, University of California

[2]Division of Nephrology, University of California, Davis School of Medicine, University of California

[3]Division of Nephrology, Sacramento VA Medical Center, VA Northern California Health Care Systems

[4]UNC Kidney Center and Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

[5]Division of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California

[6]Center for Healthcare Policy and Research, Davis School of Medicine, University of California

关键词: CMS-2728;    ESRD;    Claims;    Comorbidity;    USRDS;   

DOI  :  10.7717/peerj.5284

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Inra

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundMedicare is one of the world’s largest health insurance programs. It provides health insurance to nearly 44 million beneficiaries whose entitlements are based on age, disability, or end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Data of these ESRD beneficiaries are collected in the US Renal Data System (USRDS), which includes comorbidity information entered at the time of dialysis initiation (medical evidence data), and are used to shape health care policy. One limitation of USRDS data is the lack of validation of these medical evidence comorbidities against other comorbidity data sources, such as medical claims data.MethodsWe examined the potential for discordance between USRDS Medical Evidence and medical claims data for 11 comorbid conditions amongst Medicare beneficiaries in 2011–2013 via sensitivity, specificity, kappa and hierarchical logistic regression.Results0.9), compared to prior medical claims as reference standard. However, both sensitivity and kappa statistics varied greatly and tended to be low (most <0.5). Only diabetes appeared accurate, whereas tobacco use and drug dependence showed the poorest quality (sensitivity and kappa <0.1). Institutionalization and patient region of residency were associated with data discordance for six and five comorbidities out of 11, respectively, after conservative adjustment of multiple testing. Discordance appeared to be non-informative for congestive heart failure but was most varied for drug dependence.ConclusionsWe conclude that there is no improvement in comorbidity data quality in incident ESRD patients over the last two decades. Since these data are used in case-mix adjustment for outcome and quality of care metrics, the findings in this study should press regulators to implement measures to improve the accuracy of comorbidity data collection.

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