medicare.payments.by.state


A data set that contains average medicare payments by state for 70 common medical conditions.<p></p><p>This data set is used as an example in the book "R in a Nutshell" from O'Reilly Media.
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medicare.payments.by.state function

A data frame with 3735 observations on the following 6 variables.
  <dl>
    <dt><code>State</code></dt><dd>A factor the specifies the state for which this statistic is calculated</dd> <dt><code>Diagnosis.Related.Group</code></dt><dd>A description of the medical condition</dd> <dt><code>Medicare.Average.Payment.Minimum</code></dt><dd>The minimum average hospital medicare payment for this condition and state</dd> <dt><code>Medicare.Average.Payment.Maximum</code></dt><dd>The maximum average hospital medicare payment for this condition and state</dd> <dt><code>Number.Of.Cases</code></dt><dd>The number of cases seen; 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)</dd> <dt><code>Footnote</code></dt><dd>A footnote from the original data</dd> </dl> 

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http://www.medicare.gov/download/Hospital_Revised_flatfiles.zip

medicare.payments.by.state: Medicare Payments by State

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