MedicareCharges: Charges to and Payments from Medicare

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Charges to and Payments from Medicare

Description

These data for 2011, released in May 2013, describe how much hospitals charged Medicare for various inpatient procedures, how many were performed, and how much Medicare actually paid.

Usage

MedicareCharges

Format

A data frame with 5,025 observations on the following 4 variables.

drg

Code for the Diagnosis Related Group: a character string that looks like a number.

stateProvider

the state providing the care.

num_charges

the total number of charges.

mean_charge

the average charge for each drg across each state

Details

These data are part of a set with DiagnosisRelatedGroup, which gives a description of the medical procedure associated with each DRG, and MedicareProviders, which translates idProvider into a name, address, state, Zip, etc..

These data have been pre-aggregated by state.

Source

Data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. See https://data.cms.gov/provider-summary-by-type-of-service/medicare-inpatient-hospitals/

See Also

MedicareProviders

Examples

data(MedicareCharges)

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