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.

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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