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

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Description

A data set that contains average medicare payments by state 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.by.state)

Format

A data frame with 3735 observations on the following 6 variables.

State

A factor the specifies the state for which this statistic is calculated

Diagnosis.Related.Group

A description of the medical condition

Medicare.Average.Payment.Minimum

The minimum average hospital medicare payment for this condition and state

Medicare.Average.Payment.Maximum

The maximum average hospital medicare payment for this condition and state

Number.Of.Cases

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)

Footnote

A footnote from the original data

Source

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

Examples

data(medicare.payments.by.state)

Example output

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