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What does this file include? (variable highlights)
HRS data include:
Demographic and background information, including household
Physical and mental health
Cognition
Functional limitations
Employment
Disability
Health insurance
Assets and Income
Wills, including advanced directives
Linked files include:
Medicare denominator/Beneficiary Summary File (BSF)
Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) claims
Inpatient, MedPAR, Outpatient, Durable Medical Equipment (DME), Carrier, Skilled Nursing…
Program:
Medicare
The NHATS interview data include:
Residence
Health conditions
Housing/household
Functional status
Insurance
Labor force participation
The NHATS interview data are linked to CMS Medicare claims data for information on healthcare use.
Special considerations
The NHATS website has information on obtaining this restricted data.
Program:
Medicare
Source data
Medicare: FFS, PDE and MA
Medicaid: MAX data
What does this file include? (variable highlights)
Eligibility, enrollment variables
Aggregated cost and use
Medicare: FFS, PDE includes FFS and MA
Medicaid: FFS, managed care encounter where available
Prescription Drug service utilization reported for classes of drugs
Chronic Condition flags - 27 CCW Chronic Conditions plus an additional 25 other condition flags
All four files are released for approved MMLEADS data requests
Beneficiary file
Medicare…
Program:
Medicare, Medicaid
What is different about MMLEADS 3.0?
MMLEADS now consists of two files—a beneficiary summary file and single cost (i.e., payments) and use (i.e., claim counts) file that combines Medicare and Medicaid information. CCW Chronic Condition and other condition flags are no longer provided.
Source data
Medicare: FFS, PDE and MA
Medicaid: T-MSIS data
What does this file include? (variable highlights)
Eligibility, enrollment variables
Aggregated claim counts and payment amounts
Medicare: FFS, PDE includes FFS and MA…
Program:
Medicare, Medicaid