Data statement
Seraph Health · APCM study · effective October 2026
What this study collects
Practice-level information only: your role, practice size, whether the practice bills certain Medicare codes, and your opinions. Optional contact details if you ask us to follow up. We never ask for, and do not want, patient names, dates of birth, diagnoses or any other protected health information. If a response or a fax contains patient information, we delete it and do not record its content.
Where it is stored
- Survey answers are stored by Typeform (our survey provider) and in a private spreadsheet accessible only to the two study authors.
- The estimate shown in the survey is computed by us from public CMS data (the 2024 Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners file, the Doctors & Clinicians file, PECOS and the NPI Registry). It is an estimate, not a record of your billing.
- When a link printed on a fax is opened, we record the code, the time, the browser type and the country, plus a one-way hash of the IP address. Those records are deleted after 90 days. We set no cookies.
How it is used
Responses are reported in aggregate, for example "40% of practices with two to four physicians said X." No practice is named or identifiable in anything we publish without its written permission. Contact details are used only to follow up with people who asked for a conversation or for the findings, and are never shared or sold.
Withdrawing or deleting your answers
You can stop at any point in the survey. To have your answers or contact details deleted, email leslie@seraphmed.io with the practice name or the code printed on your fax; we delete the record within five business days and confirm by reply.
Retention
Survey responses and contact details are kept for 24 months after the study closes, then deleted. Aggregate results are kept indefinitely.
Faxes
We fax each practice at most three times about this study. To receive no further faxes, fax the page back marked "remove" to the return number printed on it, or email us; requests are honored within five business days.
Who to contact
Leslie Dickson-Tetteh, Seraph Health — leslie@seraphmed.io.