Datasets / Basic Stand Alone Medicare Outpatient Procedures PUF


Basic Stand Alone Medicare Outpatient Procedures PUF

Published By U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

Issued oltre 9 anni ago

US
beta

Summary

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

Data Licence
Not Applicable

Content Licence
Creative Commons CCZero

Verification
automatically awarded

Description

This release contains the Basic Stand Alone (BSA) Outpatient Procedures Public Use Files (PUF) with 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 percent sample of Medicare beneficiaries. There are some demographic and claim-related variables provided in this PUF as detailed below. However, as claim or beneficiary identities are not provided, it is not possible to link procedures that belong to the same claim or beneficiary.