The Final Clinical file is a model-curated version of the information in the Raw Clinical data. Million Hearts® business rules are applied to the raw data and select information is extracted and translated into custom codes.
Note that clinical data excludes all “Incomplete” visits.
What is a clinical data element? Data fields that can be collected, utilized, or stored in various application systems.
What does this file include? (variable highlights)
- Beneficiary ID
- Model-Assigned Practice ID
- Model-Assigned Patient ID
- Provider NPI
- Activity Date
- Activity End Date
- Provider NPI
- Clinical Service Procedure Code
- Clinical Service Procedure Modifier
- Service Units
A record represents one clinical data element per beneficiary. Beneficiaries that have multiple clinical data elements will have multiple records.
The Unique Model-Assigned Patient ID can be used to link to other Million Hearts® beneficiary files (demographic, visit, and alignment), but cannot link to other CCW non-Million Hearts® files.
The Model-Assigned Practice ID can be used to link all Million Hearts® data files for provider-oriented analytics. It does not link to other CCW provider data.
The Beneficiary ID can be linked to other beneficiary records in this dataset and other CCW Medicare data.
The NPI can be linked to other records with NPI in this dataset and other CCW Medicare data.
