Data4Democracy / drug-spending

Project to understand pharmaceutical spending, currently focused on US government programs.
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Collect and clean Medicare Part B spending data #17

Closed mattgawarecki closed 7 years ago

mattgawarecki commented 7 years ago

Task

Download the Part B spending data from CMS and convert it to an accessible format that's easier to analyze.

How this will help

Part D is a large component of drug spending with respect to Medicare, but Part B is significant, as well. If we incorporate Part B statistics into our decision-making and analyses, we can make comparisons and get a better picture for Medicare drug spending as a whole.

sgalletta213 commented 7 years ago

Done! Made a commit for the data and code.

mattgawarecki commented 7 years ago

Closing this issue since we merged #20. Great work, @sgalletta213! 👍