Committee presses cabinet on data-sharing with legislature; Medicaid data complexity noted
Summary
Legislators asked whether the cabinet can share Medicaid data or sign data agreements with the legislature; Commissioner Lisa Lee said data-sharing agreements exist with universities, she will check procedures for legislative access, and warned Medicaid data can produce differing results depending on how queries are run.
Committee members asked whether the cabinet could establish a formal data-sharing agreement with the legislature so lawmakers could work directly with Medicaid data when shaping policy. Co-chair Moser noted the committee had not seen many of the research outputs and asked whether a formal agreement was needed for the cabinet to provide those reports.
"No. I don't think you need a a formal recommendation," Commissioner Lisa Lee said, offering instead to prepare consolidated summaries or to provide project lists when the next cycle is decided. Lee also cautioned that Medicaid data are complex: "If you run data on a date of service or a paid date, you're gonna get 2 different numbers," she said, underscoring the need for analytic expertise when legislators review raw data. The committee requested Lee check the process for a legislative data-sharing agreement and to provide guidance on how the legislature might access or receive validated summaries.
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