The Medicare Claims and Summary cross reference file allows researchers to link HRS/CMS Medicare data created by the NIA Data LINKAGE Program (LINKAGE) to other HRS data products. This file is created in four steps:
- HRS provides LINKAGE 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.
- LINKAGE links respondents to their CMS Medicare records using the matching information provided by HRS.
- For matched records, LINKAGE 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.
- 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 | 29,841 |
|---|---|
| Product Type | Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Data |
| Entry Cohort Info | HRS; AHEAD; CODA; War Baby; EBB, MBB |
| Latest Release | October 2023 |
| Version Notes | The current CMS data linkage includes HRS respondents interviewed through the 2018 and early 2020 (full 2020 sample not represented) 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 LINKAGE with HRS survey data. |
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The data file that you receive from LINKAGE is keyed on a unique 12-character field that replaces the respondent's HIC. The name of this field is BID_HRS_26. In order to merge CMS records with HRS files, you need to replace the BID_HRS_26 identifier with HHID and PN using this cross-reference file.