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The reasons for misspecification of the MDS in identifying Medicaid payer status
| Total assessments identified as under Medicaid payer source by claims data | California N=151,535 |
New York N=244,888 |
Ohio N=161,617 |
Texas N=192,221 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Due to missing (%) | 31.8 | 31.91 | 0 | 30.43 |
| Misclassified into private-pay (%) | 15.09 | 13.04 | 8.94 | 14.94 |
| Misclassified into Medicare (%) | 4.89 | 5.19 | 2.04 | 9.95 |
