SpecificationDocument Control and Comments

Document Control and Comments

Specification v3.4.0, section Document Control

ItemDetail
Version3.4.0
StatusFinal Consolidated Draft
Release Date9/10/2026
Comment Period Ends[Date + 60 days]
Effective Date[TBD after finalization]

Comment Submission Information:

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Public Comment Focus Areas:

  1. Probability of Collision as primary metric and the 2e-12 threshold
  2. Risk framework — collision risk vs. non-return harm
  3. Table 2 completeness - are important field combinations missing?
  4. Fuzzy constraints appropriateness
  5. P(collision) values from different populations
  6. Ecosystem-specific validation requirements
  7. Implementation feasibility
  8. SSN/ITIN last-4 handling
  9. Consideration for weighting known past demographics such as address and phone differently
  10. Consideration for the weighting of shared living spaces such as shelter, hotel, jail, halfway house, dorm, nursing facility, group home, migrant camp, or family shelter
  11. Consider a requirement that Responders SHALL match on date of birth + or – 1 day from the date provided by the requestor
  12. Should the Patients insurance ID and ID suffix be a matching field

Where to submit comments on this site: open an issue at github.com/imranq2/cms-hte-patient-matching-spec/issues. The "Submit Comments To" field above is empty in the source document.