SAS Programming with Medicare Administrative Data

Sas programming with medicare administrative data is the most comprehensive resource available for using medicare data with sas. this book teaches you how to access medicare data and, more importantly, how to apply this data to your research. matthew gillingham has created a book that is both a foundation for programmers new to medicare data and a comprehensive reference for experienced programmers. matthew gillingham is the director of health research systems at mathematica policy research. his career in health care data analytics began with analyzing commercial claims and enrollment data. for more than ten years, he has used sas to build software that analyzes administrative health care and medicare administrative data. specifically, gillingham directs systems research and development work that uses large medicare claims and enrollment data files to monitor and report on health care quality and utilization for the centers for medicare & medicaid services. in addition, he provides technical assistance and quality assurance on projects that use medicare data to create analytic files for program evaluation, monitoring, and other research purposes.