medicare.payments: Average Medicare Payment Data

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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

Examples

data(medicare.payments)

Example output

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