The quality of Medicaid and Medicare data obtained from CMS and its contractors: implications for pharmacoepidemiology

• Main Authors: Charles E. Leonard (Author), Colleen M. Brensinger (Author), Young Hee Nam (Author), Warren B. Bilker (Author), Geralyn M. Barosso (Author), Margaret J. Mangaali (Author), Sean Hennessy (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Administrative claims of United States Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) beneficiaries have long been used in non-experimental research. While CMS performs in-house checks of these claims, little is known of their quality for conducting pharmacoepidemiologic resear...