In 1998, Underheim proposed legislation that required physicians to provide and pay for the submission of claims data.

For each matched record, the health plan furnished all claims data for that period.

Second, the diagnostic codes in the claims data allowed us to estimate the number of comorbid conditions before the cancer diagnosis.

I hand him a copy of the printout on the claims data, and he looks surprised.

Ms. Lehnhard says claims data only go so far.

However, such process measures are difficult or impossible to extract from claims data, and costly chart review is typically needed in today's system.

Also, some of the claims data are coded inconsistently and improperly.

An increase reported earlier yesterday in weekly jobless claims data added to a growing belief that the economic slowdown was under way.

While bond prices received a boost from the claims data, some investors took their gains and sold.

Mr. Roach said the claims data suggested that some companies were probably starting to recall workers.