by_provider() allows you to access data such as
services and procedures performed; charges submitted and payment received;
and beneficiary demographic and health characteristics for providers treating
Original Medicare (fee-for-service) Part B beneficiaries, aggregated by year.
Usage
by_provider(
year,
npi = NULL,
first = NULL,
last = NULL,
organization = NULL,
credential = NULL,
gender = NULL,
entype = NULL,
city = NULL,
state = NULL,
zip = NULL,
fips = NULL,
ruca = NULL,
country = NULL,
specialty = NULL,
par = NULL,
tidy = TRUE
)Arguments
- year
integer (required); Year in
YYYYformat. Run helper functionprac_years()to return a vector of the years currently available.- npi
National Provider Identifier for the rendering provider on the claim.
- first, last
Individual provider's first and/or last name
- organization
Organization name.
- credential
Individual provider's credentials.
- gender
Individual provider's gender.
- entype
Provider entity type.
- city
City where provider is located.
- state
State where provider is located.
- zip
Provider’s zip code.
- fips
Provider's state FIPS code.
- ruca
Rural-Urban Commuting Area Code (RUCA); a Census tract-based classification scheme that utilizes the standard Bureau of Census Urbanized Area and Urban Cluster definitions in combination with work commuting information to characterize all of the nation's Census tracts regarding their rural and urban status and relationships. The Referring Provider ZIP code was cross walked to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) 2010 Rural-Urban Commuting Area Codes.
- country
Country where provider is located.
- specialty
Provider specialty code reported on the largest number of claims submitted.
- par
Identifies whether the provider participates in Medicare and/or accepts assignment of Medicare allowed amounts. The value will be
Yfor any provider that had at least one claim identifying the provider as participating in Medicare or accepting assignment of Medicare allowed amounts within HCPCS code and place of service. A non-participating provider may elect to accept Medicare allowed amounts for some services and not accept Medicare allowed amounts for other services.- tidy
Tidy output; default is
TRUE.
Value
A tibble containing the search results.
Examples
if (FALSE) { # interactive()
by_provider(year = 2020, npi = 1003000423)
# Use the years helper function to retrieve results for every year:
prac_years() |>
map(\(x) by_provider(year = x, npi = 1043477615)) |>
list_rbind()
}