Basic Stand Alone Medicare Claims Public Use Files

**Overview**
This data package contains claims-based data about beneficiaries of Medicare program services including Inpatient, Outpatient, related to Chronic Conditions, Skilled Nursing Facility, Home Health Agency, Hospice, Carrier, Durable Medical Equipment (DME) and data related to Prescription Drug Events. It is necessary to mention that the values are estimated and counted, by using a random sample of fee-for-service Medicare claims.

**Description**
This data package contains the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is offering through its Public Use Files (PUF), to the external users (researchers, analysts, and other interested professionals), data that can be used to assess longitudinally and transversally Medicare services and their associated costs. Because of the standardization of data, fields titles and of metadata, during the curation and enhancements done by John Snow Labs (JSL) data researchers the datasets based on PUF files are easy to use alone or in combination with other data products available at John Snow Labs. The release by CMS of the Public Use Files was made possible using non-identifiable claims data. Claims are filled usually by doctors or suppliers or by the patient, if doctors or suppliers don’t fill the claim.

**Benefits**
- Useful for public health specialist, specialized public and private institutions, including educational institutions. cms public use files are designed to offer to researchers and analysts a convenient initial look at data drawn from cms claims records. the data can serve not only analysis about the use of medicare-covered services but also to assess the financial impact for a single service or for multiple services compared. the raw version can be found on author's website, but john snow labs (jsl) is offering a clean, standardized and ready to be used datasets. in jsl datasets location, gender, age and other variables data are enhanced and optimized to be ready for use for analysis, charts and along with data from other datasets. the fields descriptions along with the dataset description are again useful for user to quick understand the data and the dataset.

**License Information**
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**Included Datasets**
- [BSA Durable Medical Equipment Line Items PUF](https://www.johnsnowlabs.com/marketplace/bsa-durable-medical-equipment-line-items-puf)
- This dataset contains the Basic Stand Alone (BSA) Durable Medical Equipment (DME) Line Items with information from 2010 Medicare DME claims. Each record is a line item of a DME claim incurred by a 5% sample of Medicare beneficiaries (each claim is comprised of up to 13 line item services). The dataset can be useful in assessing the utilization of Durable Medical Equipment which can be useful to make estimations for resources planning and to estimate associated costs.
- [BSA Outpatient Procedures PUF 2010](https://www.johnsnowlabs.com/marketplace/bsa-outpatient-procedures-puf-2010)
- BSA Outpatient Procedures PUF 2010 has information from Medicare outpatient claims. The CMS BSA Outpatient Procedures PUF is a procedure-level file in which each record is a procedure in an outpatient claim incurred by a 5% sample of Medicare beneficiaries. Demographic and claim-related variables most commonly reported/studied in health services research are included in this file.
- [BSA Prescription Drug Events PUF 2008](https://www.johnsnowlabs.com/marketplace/bsa-prescription-drug-events-puf-2008)
- The dataset BSA Prescription Drug Events (PDE) PUF has information from 2008 Medicare prescription drug claims. The CMS 2008 BSA PDE PUF is an event-level file in which each record is a claim incurred by a 5% sample of Medicare beneficiaries. Demographic and claim-related variables provided in this PUF. The CMS 2008 PDE PUF contains thirteen variables: A primary record (i.e., event) key indexing the events and twelve analytic variables.
- [BSA Skilled Nursing Facility Beneficiary PUF](https://www.johnsnowlabs.com/marketplace/bsa-skilled-nursing-facility-beneficiary-puf)
- This dataset contains the Basic Stand Alone (BSA) Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Public Use File (PUF) data, based on information from Medicare SNF claims. Each record is a beneficiary who had at least one SNF claim from a random 5% sample of Medicare beneficiaries.
- [Basic Stand Alone Carrier Line Items PUF 2010](https://www.johnsnowlabs.com/marketplace/basic-stand-alone-carrier-line-items-puf-2010)
- BSA Carrier Line Item PUF has information from Medicare Carrier claims. The CMS BSA Carrier Line Items PUF is a line item level file in which each record is a line item of a Carrier claim incurred by a 5% sample of Medicare beneficiaries. The CMS BSA Carrier Line Items PUF originates from a 5% simple random sample of beneficiaries drawn (without replacement) from the 100% Beneficiary Summary File for the reference year.
- [Basic Stand Alone Home Health Agency Beneficiary PUF](https://www.johnsnowlabs.com/marketplace/basic-stand-alone-home-health-agency-beneficiary-puf)
- This dataset contains the Basic Stand Alone (BSA) Home Health Agency (HHA) Beneficiary Public Use File (PUF) data, based on information from Medicare Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) claims. Each record is a beneficiary who had at least one HHA claim from a random 5% sample of Medicare beneficiaries.
- [Basic Stand Alone Hospice Beneficiary PUF](https://www.johnsnowlabs.com/marketplace/basic-stand-alone-hospice-beneficiary-puf)
- This dataset contains the Basic Stand Alone (BSA) Hospice Beneficiary Public Use File (PUF) data, based on information from Medicare hospice claims. Each record is a beneficiary who had at least one hospice claim from a random 5% sample of Medicare beneficiaries.
- [Basic Stand Alone Inpatient Claims PUF 2008](https://www.johnsnowlabs.com/marketplace/basic-stand-alone-inpatient-claims-puf-2008)
- The dataset the Basic Stand Alone (BSA) Inpatient Public Use Files (PUF) has information from 2008 Medicare inpatient claims. Certain demographic and claim-related variables which are most commonly reported or studied in health services research are included in the dataset. The CMS 2008 BSA Inpatient Claims PUF is a claim-level file in which each record is an inpatient claim incurred by a 5% sample of Medicare beneficiaries.
- [Chronic Conditions Public Use File](https://www.johnsnowlabs.com/marketplace/chronic-conditions-public-use-file)
- The dataset Chronic Conditions Public Use Files has information from Medicare claims. The 100% Beneficiary Summary File is created annually and contains demographic, entitlement and enrollment data for beneficiaries who were: documented as being alive for some part of the reference year of the Beneficiary Summary File, are entitled to Medicare benefits during the reference year, and enrolled in Medicare Part A and/or Part B for at least one month in the reference year.
- [Institutional Provider And Beneficiary Summary PUF](https://www.johnsnowlabs.com/marketplace/institutional-provider-and-beneficiary-summary-puf)
- This dataset contains the Basic Stand Alone (BSA) Institutional Provider and Beneficiary Summary (IPBS) Public Use File (PUF) data. Each record summarizes information for a particular institutional provider which can be a hospital, a critical care facility, a skilled nursing facility, a home health agency or hospice or another similar institution providing services to Medicare beneficiaries.

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