DataSet

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has prepared a public data set, the Medicare Provider Utilization and Payment Data: Part D Prescriber Public Use File (PUF), with information on prescription drugs prescribed by individual physicians and other health care providers and paid for under the Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Program. The Part D Prescriber PUF is based on information from CMS’s Chronic Conditions Data Warehouse, which contains Prescription Drug Event records submitted by Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug (MAPD) plans and by stand-alone Prescription Drug Plans (PDP). The dataset identifies providers by their National Provider Identifier (NPI) and the specific prescriptions that were dispensed at their direction, listed by brand name (if applicable) and generic name. For each prescriber and drug, the dataset includes the total number of prescriptions that were dispensed, which include original prescriptions and any refills, and the total drug cost. The total drug cost includes the ingredient cost of the medication, dispensing fees, sales tax, and any applicable administration fees and is based on the amount paid by the Part D plan, Medicare beneficiary, government subsidies, and any other third-party payers.

Aged; Aged; 80 and over; Databases; Factual; Drug Prescriptions; Drug Utilization Review; Inappropriate Prescribing; Medicare Part D; Pharmacoepidemiology; Pharmacovigilance; Physicians; Primary Care; Polypharmacy; Practice Patterns; Physicians'

Data are available in two formats: An online interactive dataset (allows users to sort and filter data directly without downloading). Tab delimited file format (requires importing into database or statistical software; SAS® read-in language is included in the download ZIP package)

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