medicare.payments:
Average Medicare Payment Data
Description
A data set that contains average medicare payments by hospital for 70 common medical conditions.This data set is used as an example in the book "R in a Nutshell" from O'Reilly Media.
Usage
data(medicare.payments)
Format
A data frame with 140722 observations on the following 14 variables.
Provider.Number- A unique ID for the provider
Hospital.Name- The name of the care provider
Address.1- First line of the address for the care provider
Address.2- Second line of the address for the care provider
Address.3- Third line of the address for the care provider
City- City in which the care provider is located
State- The state in which the care provider is located
ZIP.Code- The zip code of the care provider
County.Name- The county in which the care provider is located
Phone.Number- The phone number for the care providers
Diagnosis.Related.Group- A descriptpion of hte medical condition
Medicare.Average.Payment- a numeric vector that shows the average medicare repayment for the specified condition and hospital
Number.Of.Cases- a numeric vector that specifies the number of cases
Footnote- a factor with levels
An asterisk (*) appears in the table where data cannot be disclosed to protect personal health information due to the small number of Medicare patients (fewer than 11)
Source
http://www.medicare.gov/download/Hospital_Revised_flatfiles.zip