Recent News: Health agency plans massive data warehouse

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) began a monumental effort to load all the prescription drug claims information for claims from 2005 and 2006 into a single data repository. The goal is to link this data in a single source so that users can see information about both the health care provider and the beneficiary. “Integrating the data into a single source also will allow the CMS to better identify potential fraud and abuse because "people can begin to get a sense for a single version of the truth," said John Evangelist, director of integrated data and program management at the CMS.

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