MedicareCharges: Charges to and Payments from Medicare

In dtkaplan/DataComputing: Functions and Data for the Data Computing book

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

data("MedicareCharges")

Format

A data frame with 163065 observations on the following 5 variables.

drg

Code for the Direct Recovery Group: a character string that looks like a number.

idProvider

a numeric vector: it should be a factor.

totalDischarges

a numeric vector

aveCharges

a numeric vector

avePayments

a numeric vector

Details

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

Source

Data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. See http://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/Medicare-Provider-Charge-Data/Inpatient.html.

Examples

data(MedicareCharges)

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