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Basic Stand Alone Medicare Prescription Drug Events PUF

Summary

Type of release
a one-off release of a set of related datasets

Data Licence
Not Applicable

Content Licence
Creative Commons CCZero

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Release Date
19 June 2015
Modified Date
4 September 2015
Publishers
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Keywords
claims, medicare, national, part-d, payments, pharmacy, prescription-drug-plans, prescription-drugs, publically-available-data-file-for-download
Identifier
basic-stand-alone-medicare-prescription-drug-events-puf
Landing Page
http://catalog.data.gov/dataset/basic-stand-alone-medicare-prescription-drug-events-puf
Maintainers
admin HealthData@hhs.gov
Language
en

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Description

This is a Public Use File for Prescription Drug Events drawn from the 2008 Beneficiary Summary File of Medicare beneficiaries enrolled during the calendar year 2008, and their associated Medicare claims. The most important aspects of this file are as follows, 1. 5 percent simple random sample drawn without replacement from 100 percent 2008 Beneficiary Summary File. 2. This sample is disjoint from the existing 5 percent CMS Research Sample and the other 2008 PUFs. 3. Sample contained 2,392,893 unique beneficiaries of which 1,265,691 had at least one PDE. There were 51,905,367 PDE in the initial sample file.

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This dataset has been created by US Government which means it is required to be in the public domain. However US copyright law only allows open access by US citizens, we have assumed the data is equivalently licensed as CC0 for the rest of the world as this is in the spirit of the US Government’s Open Data policy.

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