| MedicareCharges {mdsr} | R Documentation |
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
MedicareCharges
Format
A data frame with 5,025 observations on the following 4 variables.
- drg
Code for the Diagnosis Related Group: a character string that looks like a number.
- stateProvider
the state providing the care.
- num_charges
the total number of charges.
- mean_charge
the average charge for each
drgacross each state
Details
These data are part of a set with DiagnosisRelatedGroup, which gives a
description of the medical procedure associated with each DRG, and
MedicareProviders, which translates idProvider into a name,
address, state, Zip, etc..
These data have been pre-aggregated by state.
Source
Data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. See https://data.cms.gov/provider-summary-by-type-of-service/medicare-inpatient-hospitals/
See Also
Examples
data(MedicareCharges)