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Medicare: Sample from "Medicare Provider Charge Data"

Description

Sample from "Medicare Provider Charge Data"

Usage

data(Medicare)

Format

A data frame with 10000 observations and data for on billings for procedures at many different hospitals.

References

This data came from http://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/Medicare-Provider-Charge-Data/index and was referenced in the article https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/08/business/hospital-billing-varies-wildly-us-data-shows.html (link no longer active), as retrieved on 5/8/2013.

Examples

data(Medicare)