Tidy and upload Medicare Part B Drug Spending data (2011-2015)

[darya-akimova]

Status

Assigning this to myself.

Task

Medicare Part B Spending data .xlsx format, 2011-2015: https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/Information-on-Prescription-Drugs/2015MedicareData.html

What we're looking for

• Tidy data that can be uploaded on data.world, along side with the original data file.
• Create data dictionaries for all files uploaded

How this will help

While Medicare Part D covers outpatient drugs (drugs that you would administer yourself at home), Part B covers drugs that would typically be administered in a hospital setting (through an IV pump, for example). Many cancer drugs would be covered by Part B, for example, because they must be administered with a special pump. These datasets for Part B spending can help us better understand overall Medicare spending on drugs.

[darya-akimova]

Resolved. Cleanup file added to R/datawrangling and data dictionary file added. Tidy Part B file has been uploaded to data.world.