In this article, we outline actionable strategies for strengthening one of the most essential administrative data assets—encounter data—and explain how improving this resource can unlock the ...

First, a basic question: what’s in the dataset? HHS reports that the data contains “provider-level Medicaid spending data aggregated from outpatient and professional claims with valid Healthcare ...

Medicaid, the joint federal-state health insurance program that covers about one-in-five Americans, may be in for some of the biggest changes in its 60-year history. The tax, spending and policy bill ...

The goal is to achieve greater policy alignment with the values and preferences of those served by the agency—and in so doing ...

Oregon health officials have turned over personally sensitive data about some Medicaid patients to the federal government as part of a spending probe — a move that follows months of heated debate over ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has introduced stricter Minimum Data Set (MDS) data validation standards for Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) in fiscal year 2026. Facilities must ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are getting access to the personal data of nearly 80 million people on Medicaid in order to acquire "information concerning the identification and ...

Under a new information-sharing policy, the Trump administration will allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement to access the personal data of the 79 million people enrolled in Medicaid across the ...