opened on:  14 Mar 2018, 19:24:29

_dta:
  1.  The Outpatient file contains final action, fee-for-service claims data
      submitted
  2.  by institutional outpatient providers. Examples of institutional
      outpatient
  3.  providers include hospital outpatient departments, rural health clinics,
      renal
  4.  dialysis facilities, outpatient rehabilitation facilities, comprehensive
      outpatient
  5.  rehabilitation facilities, and community mental health centers.
  6.  Outpatient Data Dictionary
      https://www.resdac.org/cms-data/files/op-rif/data-documentation
  7.  by Jean Roth , jroth@nber.org , 30 Sep 2016
  8.  Source URL: http://www.dartmouthatlas.org/tools/downloads.aspx
  9.  Source Workbook: Outpatient_HCPCs_Age0to99_2004_2014.xlsx
 10.  Source Worksheet: Table

hcpcs_cd:
  1.  Definition of Outpatient HCPC Code: The Health Care Common Procedure
      Coding System (HCPCS)
  2.  is a collection of codes that represent procedures, supplies, products
      and services
  3.  which may be provided to Medicare beneficiaries and to individuals
      enrolled in private health insurance programs
  4.  The codes are divided into three levels.
  5.  This code is located on in the line item of the claim.

> ta
  obs:       140,261                          
 vars:             5                          30 Sep 2016 16:14
 size:    65,782,409                          (_dta has notes)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
              storage   display    value
variable name   type    format     label      variable label
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
hcpcs_cd        str5    %9s                 * HCPC (Health Care Common
                                                Procedure Code System) Code
year            int     %9.0g                 Year
formatvaluelabel
                str454  %454s                 HCPC (Health Care Common
                                                Procedure Code System) Label
nrecs           long    %10.0g                # of records with this
                                                Diagnositic-Related Group code
                                                during the year
nppl_any        long    %10.0g                # of people with this
                                                Diagnotic-Related Group code
                                                during the year
                                            * indicated variables have notes
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sorted by: hcpcs_cd  year