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	Number	Release
Medicare Physician Identifiers UPINs, PINs and NPI Numbers [pdf, 429 KB]	TB-002	01-2003
How to Find Ambulance Services in the Medicare Claims Data [pdf, 57 KB]	TN-002	03-2007
How to Identify Emergency Room Services in the Medicare Claims Data [pdf, 49 KB]	TN-003	01-2003
Calculating Hospital Specific DRG Payments [pdf, 77 KB]	TN-004	11-2006
Cost Report Database Formats: Traditional Flat File versus Relational Database [pdf, 76 KB]	TN-005	03-2007
Linking the Nursing Home Minimum Data Set (MDS) with Other CMS Facility Data [pdf, 55 KB]	TN-007	04-2005
Using Medicare Hospital Cost Reports Cost-to-Charge Ratios in Research [pdf, 65 KB]	TN-008	11-2005
Medicare Managed Care Enrollees and the Medicare Utilization Files [pdf, 118 KB]	TN-009	08-2007
Dual Medicare - Medicaid Enrollees and the Medicare Denominator File [pdf, 54 KB]	TN-010	03-2006
Differences in How the Medicare 5% Files are Generated [pdf, 67 KB]	TN-011	03-2007
RDDC Finder File Encryption Policy [pdf, 484 KB]	RDDC-01	07-2007
Structure and Rules for Medicare Finder and Conversion Files [pdf, 56 KB]	RDDC-02	07-2007
Claim Segment LDS Record Structure for SAF file [pdf, 107 KB]	RDDC-03	07-2008

Last Modified September 18, 2008