The Medicare Claims and Summary cross reference file allows researchers to link HRS/CMS Medicare data to other HRS data products. This file is created in four steps:
- HRS provides Acumen with a file of respondents (and matching information) who meet criteria for Medicare retrieval. This list is keyed on a sequence number created by HRS.
- Acumen links respondents to their CMS Medicare records using the matching information provided by HRS.
- For matched records, Acumen replaces the respondent's indentifiers with a unique identifier (BID), links that value to the HRS sequence number, and provides HRS with a sequence number to BID cross-reference file. Please note that the BID used here is NOT the same as the BID used to merge the Medicaid Analytic Extracts (MAX) cross reference.
- As a final step, HRS replaces the sequence number with HHID and PN, creating the Medicare Claims and Summary cross reference file.
Product Details
| N | 27,895 |
|---|---|
| Product Type | Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Data |
| Entry Cohort Info | HRS; AHEAD; CODA; War Baby; EBB, MBB |
| Latest Release | November 2020 |
| Version Notes | The current CMS data linkage includes HRS respondents interviewed through the 2018 wave who have consented to the Medicare data linkage. The HRS Medicare Claims and Summary Data Cross-Reference file is required in order to merge the CMS files created by Acumen LLC with HRS survey data. |
| Documentation and Links |
The data file that you receive from Acumen LLC is keyed on a unique 9-character field that replaces the respondent's HIC. The name of this field is BID_HRS_24. In order to merge CMS records with HRS files, you need to replace the BID_HRS_24 identifier with HHID and PN using this cross-reference file.