Navy lieutenant investigated after questioning accuracy of DOD medical database on social media – IOTW Report

Navy lieutenant investigated after questioning accuracy of DOD medical database on social media

JTN: A Navy whistleblower is being investigated after posting a video on social media about irregularities in the Defense Department’s medical database. 

Lieutenant Edward “Ted” Macie, who serves in the Navy Medical Service Corps, is under investigation after he posted a video of himself in uniform on the social media platform “X” a couple of weeks ago discussing irregularities in DOD medical billing data from the Defense Medical Epidemiology Database (DMED), according to his lawyer, R. Davis Younts. 

DMED is the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch’s (AFHSB) “web-based tool to remotely query de-identified active component personnel and medical event data contained within the Defense Medical Surveillance System (DMSS),” according to the Defense Health Agency. 

The database contains every International Classification of Diseases (ICD) medical billing code for all medical diagnoses submitted by the military for medical insurance billing.  read more

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