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PSID Medicare Claims File Available through Special Contract

I. Introduction
II. Data Files
III. SAS and SPSS Files
IV. Documentation
V. Additional Help

 

  I. Introduction
In 1990, a supplement concerning the health of elderly Heads and Wives/"Wives" of PSID families was added to the PSID questionnaire and conducted by the study. Dr. Lee Lillard at the RAND Corporation designed the supplement with funding from the National Institute on Aging. As part of the supplement, we asked permission from respondents to request their Medicare records from the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA). Medicare identification numbers were collected from willing respondents. These identification numbers were then submitted to HCFA to obtain Medicare Automated Data Retrieval System (MADRS) claims filed by the respondents in 1990. MADRS data are available from 1984 to 1991.

This file is available only through special contractual arrangement. It contains data constructed from the participating respondents' Medicare claims as reported in the MADRS, as well as identification numbers needed to link these data to the PSID main data files. The data were initially processed by staff at the RAND Corporation and converted to ASCII format by the PSID staff. There are 4 data files. SAS and SPSS data definition statements have been prepared for each data file.

 

  II. Data Files
This dataset consists of a Person Calendar Year file and three person-episode files: Home Health, Inpatient, and SNF/Swing Bed. The Person Calendar file contains a record for every year that a respondent has any Medicare claims. In this file, the maximum number of records for a given respondent is 10.

In each of the three episode files (Home Health, Inpatient, and SNF/Swing Bed) there is one record for each person-episode, and at least one record for each person who provided a valid Medicare ID. The variable EPISDATA indicates whether a record contains episode data or not.

FILE CONTENT

NUMBER OF RECORDS

NUMBER OF VARIABLES

FILE NAME

FILE SIZE

Person Calendar Year

4,870

379

mifinal.dat

8,853,660

Home Health Data by Episodes

1,020

12

mihhsty.dat

47,940

Inpatient Data by Episodes

1,674

139

miinpsty.dat

1,036,206

SNF Data by Episodes

872

62

misnfsty.dat

214,512

 

  III. SAS and SPSS Files
These files contain SAS and SPSS statements providing information about the variables in the data files. The two files of each type, SAS and SPSS, correspond to the data files provided and are named accordingly. Therefore, "mifinal.SAS" contains SAS statements for the mifinal.DAT file; and "mifinal.SPS" contains SPSS statements for the mifinal.DAT file. These statements provide variable names and locations, variable labels and missing data codes.

The SAS and SPSS statements are not intended to represent completed and full programs for the respective statistical program packages to run extracts, analysis, and so on. You must provide all other SAS or SPSS statements needed to complete a program.

 

File Attributes for Program Statement Files

SAS STATEMENTS

FILE SIZE

mifinal.sas

29,357

mihhsty.sas

2,750

miinpsty.sas

11,762

misnfsty.sas

5,966

SPSS STATEMENTS

FILE SIZE

mifinal.sps

28,316

mihhsty.sps

2,380

miinpsty.sps

11,182

misnfsty.sps

5,508

 


IV. Documentation The following machine-readable documentation files are provided for the Medicare Claims files.

File Description and Attributes for Documentation Files

FILE CONTENT

FILE NAME

FILE SIZE

Documentation

madrs.txt

143,336

README File

readme.txt

2,111

  V. Additional Help
If you have questions regarding this file, please contact us.

 



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