medicare

medicare-package


The medicare package contains useful functions for manipulating
  raw Medicare public use files. These sometimes come with SAS read-in code
  provided, but more frequently require the analyst to manually recode and
  rename variables based on thorough review of the data documentation. This
  package focuses mostly on Cost Reports and Provider of Service files, but
  more support will be added for other sources in the future.


Publicly available data from Medicare frequently requires extensive
initial effort to extract desired variables and merge them; this package
formalizes the techniques I've found work best. More information on the
Medicare program, as well as guidance for the publicly available data this package
targets, can be found on CMS's website covering publicly available data. See <https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems.html>.

medicare: medicare: tools for simplifying Medicare data analysis

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