opened on:  16 Nov 2016, 03:28:29

_dta:
  1.  medicare_hospital_spending_by_claim set up by Jean Roth , jroth@nber.org
      , 16 Nov 2016
  2.  Source Database File: Hospital.mdb
  3.  Source Page: https://data.medicare.gov/data/archives/hospital-compare
  4.  Source File URL:
      medicare.gov/download/HospitalCompare/2014/April/HOSArchive_20140417.zip

> ending_by_claim.dta
  obs:       143,440                          
 vars:            11                          16 Nov 2016 03:27
 size:    29,118,320                          (_dta has notes)
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              storage   display    value
variable name   type    format     label      variable label
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provider        str6    %9s                   Provider Number
hospname        str72   %72s                  Hospital Name
state           str2    %9s                   State
period          str53   %53s                  Period
claimtype       str25   %25s                  Claim Type
avgspendingperepisodehospital
                str8    %9s                   Avg Spending Per Episode
                                                (Hospital)
avgspendingperepisodestate
                str8    %9s                   Avg Spending Per Episode (State)
avgspendingperepisodenation
                str8    %9s                   Avg Spending Per Episode (Nation)
percentofspendinghospital
                str7    %9s                   Percent of Spending (Hospital)
percentofspendingstate
                str7    %9s                   Percent of Spending (State)
percentofspendingnation
                str7    %9s                   Percent of Spending (Nation)
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Sorted by: provider