A tentative course outline for Programming with Health Care Claims Data Using SAS is provided below for the convenience of attendees.

Students enrolled in this two-day course scheduled for Sept. 26-27, 2019, at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, can expect to cover the following topics:

  • Description of Analysis Problem using CMS Public Use Files.
  • Structure of basic SAS® programs.
  • Generate code using SAS Studio.
  • Convert text files and spreadsheets to SAS datasets.
  • Write programs to subset the beneficiary dataset and learn how the how the data step works.
  • SAS Formats to make data readable and to use as a lookup table.
  • Different ways to do look up tables and to merge datasets by using beneficiary and inpatient and outpatient claims datasets.
  • Methods to verify your results.
  • Working with dates.
  • Arrays, do loops, if blocks, summarizing information while completing the analysis program.
  • Reporting options and graphics.
  • Question and answers with subject matter experts.

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