“Recently, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) released findings of an audit of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) Open Payments program. The OIG audit revealed that of 11.9 million records published on the Open Payments website for 2015, only less than one percent were missing required data elements. Although the Open Payments data elements reported to CMS were complete overall, OIG identified some records that contained inaccurate, imprecise or inconsistent information. In response to these deficiencies, OIG provided CMS with practical recommendations to improve the accuracy, precision and consistency of the data to better help consumers use the information contained in the Open Payments program…”
“OIG reviewed Open Payments data from 2015 to determine the extent to which reported data were inaccurate, inconsistent or missing elements. OIG also reviewed CMS policies and procedures to determine CMS’s role in validating the Open Payments data received from manufacturers and GPOs…” Read the full article here.
Source: OIG’s First Audit of Open Payments Program: Compliance Rate High, but Data Needs Improvement, September 7, 2018. Hall Render.
