EIU's index measures the relative costs of doing business in 27 economies by compiling statistics relating to wages, costs for expatriate staff, air travel and subsistence, corporation taxes, perceived corruption levels, office and industrial rents, and road transport.
Instead, as a result of faulty Medicaid data, medical providers bore the disruption and costs that come from compiling the records demanded, lived with the stress and uncertainty of an intrusive government audit, and confronted the fear that an unjustified audit could result in an even more unjustified law enforcement referral.