Data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Description

Two datasets from public data provided the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, https://data.cms.gov.

• cms_patient_experience contains some lightly cleaned data from "Hospice - Provider Data", which provides a list of hospice agencies along with some data on quality of patient care, https://data.cms.gov/provider-data/dataset/252m-zfp9.

• cms_patient_care "Doctors and Clinicians Quality Payment Program PY 2020 Virtual Group Public Reporting", https://data.cms.gov/provider-data/dataset/8c70-d353

Usage

cms_patient_experience

cms_patient_care

Format

cms_patient_experience is a data frame with 500 observations and five variables:

org_pac_id,org_nm

Organisation ID and name

measure_cd,measure_title

Measure code and title

prf_rate

Measure performance rate

cms_patient_care is a data frame with 252 observations and five variables:

ccn,facility_name

Facility ID and name

measure_abbr

Abbreviated measurement title, suitable for use as variable name

score

Measure score

type

Whether score refers to the rating out of 100 ("observed"), or the maximum possible value of the raw score ("denominator")

Examples

cms_patient_experience %>%
  dplyr::distinct(measure_cd, measure_title)

cms_patient_experience %>%
  pivot_wider(
    id_cols = starts_with("org"),
    names_from = measure_cd,
    values_from = prf_rate
 )

cms_patient_care %>%
  pivot_wider(
    names_from = type,
    values_from = score
  )

cms_patient_care %>%
  pivot_wider(
    names_from = measure_abbr,
    values_from = score
  )

cms_patient_care %>%
  pivot_wider(
    names_from = c(measure_abbr, type),
    values_from = score
  )