medicare_utils 0.0.1

# medicare_utils

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Scripts to assist working with Medicare data.

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## Features

Provides the class MedicareDF. This class contains some canned scripts to make common tasks easier. It currently contains two functions: - get_cohort(), which uses the beneficiary summary file to find a set of medicare beneficiaries according to options given to the function. - search_for_codes(), which searches for HCPCS, ICD-9 diagnosis, and/or ICD-9 procedure codes in a given type of file.

## Installation

Install the package with: ` pip install git+https://github.com/kylebarron/medicare_utils --upgrade `

## Usage

The class is initialized with `py import medicare_utils as med mdf = med.MedicareDF('05', range(2010, 2013)) mdf.get_cohort(gender='female', ages=range(65, 75)) mdf.search_for_codes(2010, 'med', icd9_diag='41071') `

It has attributes that refer to different levels of the data, when applicable: - mdf.pl: patient-level data. Here the index of the data is bene_id for data post-2005, or ehic for data pre-2005. - mdf.cl: claim-level data.