Kythera Labs one of only 23 organizations with
access to Medicare Parts A, B, and D claims data covering all 50
states in the U.S.
FRANKLIN, Tenn., Aug. 13,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Kythera Labs, Inc. announces it
has received certification as a Qualified Entity from the Centers
for Medicaid & Medicare Services (CMS). The CMS Qualified
Entity (QE) Program (also known as the Medicare Data Sharing for
Performance Measurement Program), enables certified organizations
to receive Medicare claims data under Parts A, B, and D. Only 39
organizations are QEs and of those, only 23, including Kythera have
access to nationwide data.
"Kythera's mission is to help the
healthcare industry innovate and reach answers faster and more cost
efficiently."
Kythera Labs data technology transforms multi-source data into
answer-ready information, and access to the nationwide Medicare
claims expands Kythera's ability to help its customers innovate
across the health care and life sciences spectrum.
"Kythera's mission is to help the healthcare industry discover
and innovate, and access to this data from the QE program means an
extended ability for users of real-world data (RWD) to reach
answers faster and more cost efficiently," said Jeff McDonald, CEO and co-founder of Kythera
Labs. As a CMS Qualified Entity, Kythera will expand the breadth,
depth, and longitudinality of its national data sets.
The QE certification gives Kythera access to claims data for
more than 66 million beneficiaries comprising claims data in these
areas: inpatient, skilled nursing facility, and home health agency
care (Part A); durable medical equipment, outpatient and carrier
(Part B); and prescription drug (Part D).
QEs are required annually to use Medicare claims data to
generate public performance reports for providers and suppliers on
measures of quality, efficiency, effectiveness and resource use.
QEs may also use the Medicare data to provide or sell non-public
reports to authorized users.
About Kythera Labs
Kythera Labs is a data technology company that unifies data
science and data technology to enable higher fidelity in healthcare
data for Healthcare and Life Sciences organizations. Our
multi-source data captures over 310M
de-identified unique individuals and our technology is built for
RWD users to integrate, access, analyze and find answers.
Learn more at www.kytheralabs.com or follow Kythera
Labs on LinkedIn.
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