Update 0.2.1

• Update to price_deflate() function, which now uses the latest weights available from government publications.

• The years available for deflating have also been altered to 2007-2014.

Update 0.2.0

An updated was release on CRAN on 11/18/16. Changes include:

• New function price_deflate, which converts Medicare sector spending to constant dollars.
  • For example, price_deflate(100, "ip", 2014, 2007) will convert $100 in 2014 inpatient spending to its equivalent in 2007 dollars. Price deflations are done based on Medicare's published annual price index increases (example).
  • This allows analysis of spending after eliminating increases due to Medicare's payment rate changes.
  • Currently supports: ip, op, phys, snf, hh, hospice, part_b_drugs, part_d_drugs, and other.
  • Years available: 2002 - 2014.

Fixes:

• Fixed an issue that cr_extract() had when subsetting tibbles instead of traditional dataframes.
• Fixed some copying errors in the vignettes

v0.1.0

Medicare v0.1.0 was released on CRAN on October 10, 2016. This release includes functionality to:

• Extract data from cost reports
• Parse variable names from Provider of Services reports
• Name variables in both files

Future releases will incorporate more data sources and functionality.