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ResDAC Technical Publications

ResDAC Technical Publications are documents that are written by ResDAC technical advisors that provide researchers with an in-depth explanation of common CMS procedures, files, variables, and utilities.

Researchers will find documents called technical briefs and technical notes. A technical brief covers a topic in great detail and has been thoroughly researched. A technical note is generally a one to two page "how to" document that describes how to perform a specific function using CMS variables.

ResDAC Technical Publications are also available for downloading, and are in Adobe's Portable Document File (PDF) format. If you need a reader, one can be downloaded from Adobe.



Title

  Type   Number   Release
Medicare Physician Identifiers UPINs, PINs and NPI Numbers

  html  pdf   TB-002   01-2003
How to Find Ambulance Services in the Medicare Claims Data

  html  pdf   TN-002   03-2007
How to Identify Emergency Room Services in the Medicare Claims Data

  html  pdf   TN-003   01-2003
Calculating Hospital Specific DRG Payments

  html  pdf   TN-004   11-2006
Cost Report Database Formats: Traditional Flat File versus Relational Database

  html  pdf   TN-005   03-2007
Linking the Nursing Home Minimum Data Set (MDS) with Other CMS Facility Data

  html  pdf   TN-007   04-2005
Using Medicare Hospital Cost Reports Cost-to-Charge Ratios in Research

  html  pdf   TN-008   11-2005
Medicare Managed Care Enrollees and the Medicare Utilization Files

  html  pdf   TN-009   08-2007
Dual Medicare - Medicaid Enrollees and the Medicare Denominator File

  html  pdf   TN-010   03-2006
Differences in How the Medicare 5% Files are Generated

  html  pdf   TN-011   03-2007
RDDC Finder File Encryption Policy

  html  pdf   RDDC-01   07-2007
Structure and Rules for Medicare Finder and Conversion Files

  html  pdf   RDDC-02   07-2007