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Table 10. Data Availability for Specialized Medical
Equipment
Data
Availability
|
Specialized Medical
Equipment Data
|
Advantage
|
Disadvantage
|
|
CMS approval/
DUA required
|
OASIS
|
-
Captures the use of
ventilators.
- Data are current
(within several months) and available at zip code level.
|
-
No information on
VADs.
- Requires application
for DUA.
- Captures only
patients in the care of Medicare/Medicaid-certified home health agencies.
|
|
Medicare claims
|
-
Captures the use of
ventilators and VADs and supplies and equipment by persons living in the Worcester zip code.
|
-
Not captured after
one year, when equipment is no longer considered "rental".
- Data are limited to
a segment of the population that is older than 65, has a disability, or has ESRD.
|
|
Medicaid claims
|
-
Captures the use of
ventilators and VADs and supplies and equipment by persons living in the Worcester zip code.
|
-
Data are limited to
low-income individuals, which varies from State to State and year to year.
|
|
Submission of proposal and fee
|
NHIS—D
|
-
Captures the use of
ventilators and tracheostomy tube.
|
-
No information on
VADs.
- Require a proposal
and fee.
- Data are old (1995).
|
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