CMS Medicaid Analytic Extract (MaxFile) Medicaid Claims Data : 100 Percent of Claims for 14 Southern States, 2004-2007/ George Rust .

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Rust, George.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 34353.

ICPSR ; 34353

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

2013-03-25.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2013.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

nd schizophrenia or COPD and CHF) from treatment to outcomes through every billable service in the health care system (i.e., from doctor's visit to lab tests to prescriptions to emergency room visits or hospital admissions). Morehouse School of Medicine has a unique ability to develop a new cadre of minority investigators to conduct and interpret the results of health services research with a racially sensitive, culturally competent perspective. Data Overview. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services produces the MAX-files from Medicaid Statistical Information System (MSIS) data submitted by each state, with some data cleaning and validation by CMS sub-contractors before data are released to researchers. The MAX-file data from CMS were loaded onto encrypted, secure servers at Morehouse School of Medicine. Research analytic files were created for each sub-project, including sickle cell disease, diabetes and schizophrenia; asthma; dementia; and congestive heart failure. For specific sub-projects, contextual variables from census data or area resource file were linked by county FIPS code. Data Access. The data cannot be made publicly available. Data are stored on Morehouse School of Medicine encrypted servers, and may be used only for projects covered within the aims of the original research protocol and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)-approved data use agreement. Data sharing is allowed only for research protocols approved under data re-use requests by the CMS privacy board. The CMS process for data re-use requests is described at the ResDAC Web site. Due to limitations of research staff within the Morehouse National Center for Primary Care, and limitations of the existing CMS data use agreement, only re-use requests consistent with the original aims of the approved research protocol are considered (temporal and geographic variation in racial-ethnic disparities in quality, access and outcomes for Medicaid enrollees in 14 southern states). Specific aims of the current research protocol define the boundaries of what kind of research questions could be answered or sub-projects developed within the existing research protocol and data use agreement (see above "Specific Aims" section). A worksheet for developing an analysis plan for a specific research question is attached. Parties interested in the data should contact George Rust, MD, MPH (grust@msm.edu). Six SAS program syntax files used for data analysis, however, are available on the ICPSR site. Aside from data re-use requests, the Morehouse National Center for Primary Care is open to collaborations which address these research aims and are consistent with their health equity research priorities, in which analyses could be performed by the Morehouse National Center for Primary Care research team and papers authored or co-authored by faculty from other minority-serving institutions or affiliated with the Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) Translational Research Network (RTRN). Cf.: http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34353.v1

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Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2015-01-05.

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