Document Control and Comments
Specification v3.4.0, section Document Control
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Version | 3.4.0 |
| Status | Final Consolidated Draft |
| Release Date | 9/10/2026 |
| Comment Period Ends | [Date + 60 days] |
| Effective Date | [TBD after finalization] |
Comment Submission Information:
Submit Comments To:
Public Comment Focus Areas:
- Probability of Collision as primary metric and the 2e-12 threshold
- Risk framework — collision risk vs. non-return harm
- Table 2 completeness - are important field combinations missing?
- Fuzzy constraints appropriateness
- P(collision) values from different populations
- Ecosystem-specific validation requirements
- Implementation feasibility
- SSN/ITIN last-4 handling
- Consideration for weighting known past demographics such as address and phone differently
- 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
- Consider a requirement that Responders SHALL match on date of birth + or – 1 day from the date provided by the requestor
- 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.
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