For each data year (2024, 2025, and 2026), the California Cardiovascular Outcomes Reporting Program (CCORP) will provide contractor with a list of hospitals to be audited and selected Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) cases at each of the hospitals [identified by medical record number (MRN), date of birth, sex, race, date of discharge, and date of surgery] when that information is available. These selected cases will be referred to as the “primary charts.” Contractor will conduct the audit so that the re-abstractors will not see the clinical data the hospitals submitted to HCAI. Since all CABG records requested of hospitals may not be available for review at the time of the audit, HCAI will ask hospitals to pull more charts than will be audited to ensure that the required number of records is available for review. These additional charts will be referred to as “secondary charts.” Contractor will be required to keep separate records of the primary and secondary charts. The number of charts pulled will depend on hospital CABG volume but should range between approximately 20 and 150.
