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The Home Health Agency PUF contains information on utilization, payment (Medicare payment and standard payment), and submitted charges organized by CMS Certification Number (6-digit provider identification number), Home Health Resource Group (HHRG), and state of service. This PUF is based on information from CMSs Chronic Conditions Data Warehouse (CCW) data files. The data in the Home Health Agency PUF covers calendar year 2013 and contains 100 percent final-action (i.e., all claim adjustments have been resolved) home health agency institutional claims for the Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) population.

The Home Health Agency PUF contains information on utilization, payment (Medicare payment and standard payment), and submitted charges organized by CMS Certification Number (6-digit provider identification number), Home Health Resource Group (HHRG), and state of service. This PUF is based on information from CMSs Chronic Conditions Data Warehouse (CCW) data files. The data in the Home Health Agency PUF covers calendar year 2013 and contains 100 percent final-action (i.e., all claim adjustments have been resolved) home health agency institutional claims for the Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) population.

The Home Health Agency Utilization and Payment data 2013 presents information on services provided to Medicare beneficiaries by home health agencies. The Home Health Agency PUF includes data for providers that had a valid identification number and submitted a Medicare Part A institutional claim during the 2013 calendar year. To protect the privacy of Medicare beneficiaries, any aggregated records which are derived from 10 or fewer beneficiaries are excluded.

This release contains the Basic Stand Alone (BSA) Home Health Agency (HHA) Beneficiary Public Use Files (PUF) with information from Medicare HHA claims. The CMS BSA HHA Beneficiary PUF is a beneficiary-level file in which each record is a beneficiary who had at least one HHA claim from a random 5 percent sample of Medicare beneficiaries. There are some demographic and claim-related variables provided in this PUF.

This dataset contains the Basic Stand Alone (BSA) Home Health Agency (HHA) Beneficiary Public Use File (PUF) data, based on information from Medicare Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) claims. Each record is a beneficiary who had at least one HHA claim from a random 5% sample of Medicare beneficiaries.

The CMS IPBS PUFs are aggregated files in which each record summarizes information for a particular institutional provider. An institutional provider refers to a hospital, a critical care facility, a skilled nursing facility, a home health agency or hospice or another similar institution providing services to Medicare beneficiaries. Information about individual beneficiaries is not reported.

This dataset contains the Basic Stand Alone (BSA) Institutional Provider and Beneficiary Summary (IPBS) Public Use File (PUF) data. Each record summarizes information for a particular institutional provider which can be a hospital, a critical care facility, a skilled nursing facility, a home health agency or hospice or another similar institution providing services to Medicare beneficiaries.