opened on:  15 Nov 2016, 23:10:10

_dta:
  1.  medicare_hospital_spending_by_claim set up by Jean Roth , jroth@nber.org
      , 15 Nov 2016
  2.  Source Database File: Hospital.mdb
  3.  Source Page: https://data.medicare.gov/data/archives/hospital-compare
  4.  Source File URL:
      www.medicare.gov/download/HospitalCompare/2016/August/HOSArchive_20160810
      > .zip

> ending_by_claim.dta
  obs:        70,598                          
 vars:            15                          15 Nov 2016 23:09
 size:    16,025,746                          (_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        str65   %65s                  Hospital Name
state           str2    %9s                   State
period          str63   %63s                  Period
claimtype       str25   %25s                  Claim Type
avgspendinperepisodehospital
                str7    %9s                   Avg Spendin Per Episode
                                                (Hospital)
avgspendingperepisodestate
                str7    %9s                   Avg Spending Per Episode (State)
avgspendingperepisodenation
                str7    %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)
measurestartdate
                int     %td                   Measure Start Date
measurestartdatestr
                str10   %10s                  Measure Start Date
measureenddate  int     %td                   Measure End Date
measureenddatestr
                str10   %10s                  Measure End Date
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Sorted by: provider