How to Differentiate Closed Claims data sets from Open Claims data sets

Alright, thanks for all the feedback. There are multiple things to address, but breaking it down into responses below.

@Vojtech_Huser :
I think Christian_Reich explained the Open/Closed difference and what happens during adjudication. The main thing I’m concerned with is that I will eventually be combining data from Open claims into the same place as data from Closed claims, and I need to have a clear way for researchers to know the provenance. I’m not the best person to speak to the different use cases for Open vs Closed, I just want to make sure that people can clearly tell which data they’re looking at.

@MPhilofsky thanks for confirming that those 3 OMOP codes would be how I call out the provenance in the cost table.

@Christian_Reich

“These shouldn’t be just in the COST table, but in all the clinical event tables that get populated from a claim.”

This might be what I’m missing. Can we build out an example? Lets say I have a closed claims data source (e.g., Medicaid payer data) showing that a patient had a procedure that is 100% paid for by Medicaid.

Are you saying that the record in the procedure_occurrence table would have a value of ‘OMOP4822218’ (Payer system (Primary payer) Closed Claims) in the procedure_type_concept_id field?

Also, the corresponding row in the cost table would have the exact same value of ‘OMOP4822218’ in the cost_type_concept_id field? And this cost record would have cost_event_id linking to the procedure record (or possibly both the procedure_occurrence record and the cost record link to the same visit_detail id, tbd)?

@Christian_Reich

You lost me here:

“That’s not OMOP CDM. It does NOT model claims.”

I misspoke when I said “episode of care”. I’m planning on visit_occurrence being aggregated up from visit_detail similar to the discussion in the decision time for visit_detail thread and this separate comment by Gowthan_Rao. The grain for visit_occurrence will be coarser than the claim_header and we’ll use temporal association so that a visit_occurrence is bound by Admission/Discharge/Transfer.
Does that correction address your concern?

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