professionals: Read in physicians npi data

In UMCSTaR/medicareR: Standardize Medicare Data and Create Analytic File

Read in physicians npi data

Description

used in step3_professional combine all years physician to one dataset and delete who have missing NPI

Usage

professionals(
  year,
  data_file_name,
  schema,
  src_root,
  mapping_data = import_mapping
)

Arguments

year	year of medicare data
data_file_name	original medicare dataset names
schema	defined in csv file. default is "professional"
src_root	locations of carrier line on database
mapping_data:	select medicare original vars to mapped vars

Details

1.read all NPIs info across years from carrier line file 2. rename NPI variable 3. Combine all NPIs and delete NA values

Value

combined physician NPI across years

UMCSTaR/medicareR documentation built on May 11, 2022, 7:31 p.m.