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

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

Provider ID: a numeric vector: it should be a factor.

totalDischarges

aveCharges

avePayments

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)
str(MedicareCharges)

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