Issue: Arkansas Medicaid Facility Type/Place of Service (MC037)

Number

0084

Submitting Entity (SE)

99MCD1

Add Date

Jul 15, 2021

Update Date

May 17, 2022

Update

Issue resolution described below.

Included in May 2022 data tip email.

Description

–This field had previously been hard coded as a 02 on all records for all years.

–The data was updated with correct values in the 19B release (January 2020) however new records received in later submissions continued to be coded with a 02 in error.

–This field has been corrected for all years of Arkansas Medicaid medical claims.

-This issue could affect all past data requests including Arkansas Medicaid data and used MC037.

–NOTE:  As of January 1, 2017, the value 02 represents telemedicine. The correction data will still contain the value 02 for telemedicine.

 

Active/Resolved

Resolved

Action / Resolution

The MC037 data was corrected using a strip file provided by Medicaid. Data requesters having received data prior to September 2021 should still consider the information above.

 

Category 1

Data Quality

Category 2

Place of Service

Tip / Issue

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