The CONTENTS Procedure

       Data Set Name        PREDIAL.INC1998A                 Observations           245271
       Member Type          DATA                             Variables              22
       Engine               V9                               Indexes                0
       Created              Wed, Feb 15, 2006 11:23:43 AM    Observation Length     132
       Last Modified        Wed, Feb 15, 2006 11:23:43 AM    Deleted Observations   0
       Protection                                            Compressed             CHAR
       Data Set Type                                         Reuse Space            NO
       Label                                                 Point to Observations  YES
       Data Representation  ALPHA_VMS_32                     Sorted                 YES
       Encoding             Default


                                Engine/Host Dependent Information

              Data Set Page Size          8192
              Number of Data Set Pages    1772
              Number of Data Set Repairs  0
              Release Created             8.0202M0
              Host Created                OpenVMS


                           Alphabetic List of Variables and Attributes

 #    Variable    Type    Len    Format       Informat    Label

 1    USRDS_ID    Num       8    BEST22.      BEST22.     USRDS patient ID number
 7    clm_amt     Num       8    BEST22.                  Medicare payments
 2    clm_from    Num       8    DATE7.                   From date of service
 5    clm_thru    Num       8    DATE7.                   Service through date
 6    clm_tot     Num       8    BEST22.                  Total charges
21    cvr_dcnt    Num       8    BEST22.                  Medicare covered days-use with PER_DIEM
 8    dialcash    Num       8    BEST22.                  Claim amounts for dialysis
12    dialcrc     Char      5    $DIALCRC.                Claim related condition for dialysis
11    dialrevc    Char      5    $DIALRVC.                Revenue center code for dialysis
13    dialsess    Num       8    BEST22.                  dialysis sessions reported
19    discstat    Char      2    $DRG_DES.                Discharge status
18    drg_cd      Char      3    $DRGLAB.                 Diagnosis Related Group code
14    epoadmin    Num       8    BEST22.                  Number of EPO administrations
 9    epocash     Num       8    BEST22.                  Total Charge for EPO on this claim
15    epodose     Num       8    BEST22.                  Total Epo dosage (units) for this claim
 3    hcfasaf     Char      1    $HCFASAF.                HCFA SAF source of this bill
16    hcrit       Num       8    BEST22.                  Hematocrit
20    per_diem    Num       8    BEST22.                  Per diem pass through amount
17    prm_pyr     Char      1    $PRPAYR.                 Primary payer for this bill
22    provusrd    Num       8    BEST.        BEST22.     USRDS provider ID number
10    rxcat       Char      1    $RXCATIC.                Dialysis treatment modality
 4    seq_keyc    Char      2                             Sequence # to ensure unique key


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                        Sortedby       USRDS_ID clm_from hcfasaf seq_keyc
                        Validated      YES
                        Character Set  ASCII