SAS Programming with Medicare Administrative Data, 2nd Edition

Chapter 5: Request, Receive, Load, and Transform Data

Introduction

Requesting Medicare Administrative Claims and Enrollment Data

Sources of Medicare Claims and Enrollment Data

Data Available from CMS

Our Project’s Data Requirements and Request Specifications

Contacting ResDAC and Completing Paperwork

Receiving, Decrypting, and Loading Medicare Administrative Claims and Enrollment Data

Receiving Our Medicare Administrative Data

Decrypting Our Medicare Administrative Data

Loading Our Medicare Administrative Data into SAS Data Sets

Algorithms: Transforming Base Claim and Line Level Data Sets into Single Claim-Level Files

Transforming Base Claim and Line-Level Carrier Data into a Claim-Level File

Chapter Summary

 

Introduction

The purpose of this ...