CMS Medicare Physician Data Dictionary Now Available for BC Researchers.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published a data dictionary for its Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners by Provider and Service dataset, detailing fields and definitions for provider-level service utilization and payment data.
Why It Matters
BC healthcare professionals can use this resource to understand CMS data structures, which may inform comparative health services research or policy analysis relevant to BC's own administrative data frameworks.