MedicareProviders: Medicare Providers

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Medicare Providers

Description

Name and location data for the medicare providers in the 'MedicareCharges' data table.

Usage

data("MedicareProviders")

Format

A data frame with 3337 observations on the following 7 variables:

idProvider

a unique number assigned to each provider

nameProvider

Name of the provider. (text string)

addressProvider

Street address of the provider. (text string)

cityProvider

The name of the city in which the provider is located. (factor)

stateProvider

The two-letter postal code of the state in which the provider is located. (factor)

zipProvider

The provider's ZIP code. (factor)

referralRegion

An identifier for the region serviced by the provider.

Details

This data table is related to 'MedicareCharges' data.

Source

Extracted from the highly repetitive table provided by 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

head(MedicareProviders)
str(MedicareProviders)

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