Chronic Conditions Dashboard Data Sources March 26, 2014August 3, 20180 The CMS Chronic Conditions Dashboard presents statistical views of information on the prevalence, utilization and Medicare spending for Medicare beneficiaries with chronic conditions. The Dashboard displays information on a subset of the predefined chronic conditions available in the Chronic Condition Warehouse (CCW) at the national, state, and hospital referral region
Chronic Conditions Data Warehouse Data Sources March 26, 2014December 13, 20190 Overview The CMS Chronic Conditions Data Warehouse (CCW) provides researchers with Medicare and Medicaid beneficiary, claims, and assessment data linked by beneficiary across the continuum of care. In the past, researchers analyzing data files were required to perform extensive analysis related to beneficiary matching, deduplication, and merging of the files in
DocGraph Database Data Sources March 26, 2014February 4, 20150 The DocGraph Edge data set contains very detailed information on referral patterns between CMS healthcare providers. The data can be used to understand referral patterns within any community in the United States. The data sets are very large and are structured for use in network analysis. Providers are identified by
CMS Geographic Variation Public Use File Data Sources March 25, 2014February 11, 20150 The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has developed data that enables researchers and policymakers to evaluate geographic variation in the utilization and quality of health care services for the Medicare fee-for-service population. They have aggregated this data into a Geographic Variation Public Use File that has demographic,
Using Medicare Data to Drive Improvement Resource Library January 8, 2013April 3, 20130 Download: Using Medicare Data to Drive Improvement [PDF file] This is a PDF version of a Powerpoint presentation by Kim Irby, presented at Shreveport and Houston LTCH community meetings, November 2012. Using Medicare Data to Drive Improvement: Place, Value and Change. Kim Irby, MPH & Lindsay Kirsch, MPH Colorado Foundation for Medical
Clinically Appropriate and Cost Effective Placement Final Report, October 2012 Resource Library January 3, 2013February 4, 20150 Download the report: Clinically Appropriate and Cost Effective Placement (CACEP) Final Report October, 2012 Link to the report page: Clinically Appropriate and Cost Effective Placement Report 10-12 In 2009, staff at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) informally recommended that the Alliance for Home Health Quality and Innovation (Alliance) acquire research-identifiable Medicare