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Medicare’s Big Data Dump Is Just That - A Dump
Based on the headlines, many might think that the sole purpose of the Medicare data (released last week) was a scavenger hunt for the “Medicare Millionaires.” There was certainly no shortage of headlines with that exact phrase. For those so inclined, the Medicare PUF (Public Use Files) are available in two formats (here), but fair warning – the uncompressed tab delimited file containing more than 9 million records is about 1.7GB. The Excel format is divided alphabetically into 12 separate files, so that could be easier to work with...Read More
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