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    • Medicare Claims – Vision and Eye Health Surveillance

    Metadata Updated: September 22, 2023

    2014-2019. This dataset is a de-identified summary table of vision and eye health data indicators from Medicare claims, stratified by all available combinations of age group, race/ethnicity, gender, and state. Medicare claims for VEHSS includes beneficiaries who were fully enrolled in Medicare Part B Fee-for-Service (FFS) for the duration of the year. Medicare claims provide a convenience sample that includes approximately 30 million individuals annually, which represents nearly 89% of the US population aged 65 and older and 3.3% of the US population younger than 65, including persons disabled due to blindness. Medicare data for VEHSS include Service Utilization and Medical Diagnoses indicators. Data were suppressed for de-identification to ensure protection of patient privacy. Data will be updated as it becomes available. Detailed information on VEHSS Medicare analyses can be found on the VEHSS Medicare webpage (cdc.gov/visionhealth/vehss/data/claims/medicare.html). Information on available Medicare claims data can be found on the ResDac website (www.resdac.org). The VEHSS Medicare dataset was last updated May 2023.

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

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    References

    https://www.resdac.org
    https://www.cdc.gov/visionhealth/vehss/data/claims/medicare.html

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date December 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date September 22, 2023

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Healthdata.gov

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date December 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date September 22, 2023
    Publisher Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://data.cdc.gov/api/views/e28h-tx85
    Data First Published 2021-06-15
    Data Last Modified 2023-09-21
    Category Vision & Eye Health
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 009:20
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    Data Dictionary https://chronicdata.cdc.gov/d/e28h-tx85
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    Harvest Source Title Healthdata.gov
    Homepage URL https://www.cdc.gov/visionhealth/vehss/index.html
    License http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/1.0/
    Program Code 009:020
    Related Documents https://www.resdac.org, https://www.cdc.gov/visionhealth/vehss/data/claims/medicare.html
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash f98a77ed39e5b139d5d78098eb61cab01cdaab01efb2c1ebd9ff715e9c2036fd
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