Absolutely. CMS-Pro is ideally set up to track data from multiple sources interfacing Credit card, overdraft checking, and others.

CMS is a medical insurance company. Therefore, the data available are claims and records of services paid for.

CMS-Pro handles record locking at the database record level. Each account has an in-use indicator that CMS-Pro turns on and off as records are accessed by users. A user is prevented from accessing (in modify mode) an account in use by another user.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) administers the Medicare program and works in partnership with the States to administer Medicaid, the State Children's Health insurance Program (SCHIP), and health insurance portability standards. About 83 million beneficiaries, or more than 1 in 4 Americans, receive health care coverage through Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP.

Aggregated statistics and data is available from the CMS web site. Data on both the Medicare and Medicaid programs is included in the Data Compendium. The Medicaid Drug Rebate Product Description File and the Medicaid Drug Rebate Utilization File can be downloaded from CMS. Individual level, state specific MAX files require completion of a CMS Data Request packet and payment of data processing and file creation fees. Documents for the data request packet are available through links at www.

Yes. CMS-Pro can import multiple sets of account files, at varied frequencies. If you have different loan systems, in-house or data center based, each system's extract can assemble files for CMS-Pro to consolidate and import; or import each set separately.

There are many sources for geospatial information and data. The US federal government has created a portal known as the Geospatial One-Stop (http://www.geodata.gov) to promote communication and sharing of geographic data by all levels of government and the public. GIS data are also available at the state and local government levels, from commercial vendors, and from other organizations. Center for Agricultural, Resource and Environmental Systems (CARES) (http://www.cares.missouri.

A material data set may have originated in the material supplier's laboratory, an internal lab or an external lab accredited to ISO 17025. In all cases, material data within Matereality® will include the source of the content.

Most of the data published in the American Hospital Directory are taken from public use files obtained from the Health Care Financing Administration. Sources include: The Medicare Provider Analysis and Review (MedPAR) file contains records for 100% of Medicare beneficiaries using hospital inpatient services. The Medicare Standard Analytical Files (Outpatient) contain records for 100% of Medicare beneficiaries using hospital outpatient services.

CMS also has an FAQ document for their Medicaid data files. Some of the topics addressed include detailed information on eligibility codes, waiver program data, dually eligible data, M-SCHIP and S-SCHIP, managed care data, file records, MSIS versus MAX data files, the identification of long term care residents and data quality of the MAX files.

The CMS Medicaid enrollment and claim files, State Medicaid Research Files (SMRFs), contain data for Medicaid eligibles who actually enroll. SMRF or MAX cannot, therefore, be used to study individuals who are eligible but not enrolled. The National Health Interview Study or the National Medical Expenditure Survey both collect data that may enable study of persons eligible for Medicaid.

You may be able to obtain more recent claims data directly from a state. Files available from states may be in the form of MSIS data tapes or other state specific file formats. MSIS tapes will be organized by the year that the claim was paid, not the year of service, as is true for MAX files. MSIS files also are not in the format of final action claims, meaning the researcher will need to apply algorithms or otherwise determine which claims were finally paid and settled.

CMS-Pro has a powerful import utility that can automatically post delinquent account information from multiple different core systems. CMS-Pro configuration files let you control exactly how each field of each record is processed.

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How can I get county or metro area data for sectors not published at that level in the Economic Census.

AGGREGATE FILES: The Medicaid Statistical Files contain state, regional, and national level data on Medicaid enrollment and expenditures on a federal fiscal year basis. The Medicaid Drug Rebate Product Description File contains descriptive information for individual drug products that qualify for Medicaid reimbursement and/or a manufacturer rebate. The Medicaid Drug Rebate Utilization File contains National Drug Code (NDC) level Medicaid drug utilization data for each state on a quarterly basis.

There are 2 approaches to identifying Medicaid beneficiaries who were covered under a managed care plan. The Personal Summary File indicates if a beneficiary was in a managed care plan with coverage purchased by the state, and this information is indicated for each month. Primary Care Case Management plans are not included in the indicator since these services are paid fee for service.

A federal law called the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act (EPCRA) (http://www.epa.gov/region5/defs/html/epcra.htm) requires facilities in certain industries which manufacture, process, or use significant amounts of toxic chemicals, to report annually on their releases of these chemicals.

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The U.S. Census Bureau (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade) is the primary source for U.S. trade data. Free online items include: one-digit SITC trade by country, trade balances by country, a searchable Schedule-B (export codes) file, and the monthly FT-900 report. Extensive online/cd-rom data are available for a fee. Both latest month and full-year trade data for 6-digit HS products by country are available at (../Trade-Detail). The U.S.

Stat-Canada (http://strategis.ic.gc.ca) maintains a copy of some monthly and annual U.S. six-digit HS product data by country for five years (free). Michigan State's website offers five years of U.S. trade data by SIC-4 code (tables are given for the HS-10 codes within the SIC-4) by world or country. A text product search is available. (http://govinfo.kerr.orst.edu)

Through established industry contacts, we attempt to acquire checklist data directly from the manufacturer or checklists distributed with the product. When that data is not available from the manufacturer or with the product, we perform research through various published guides and through networks of collectors that have performed time-consuming and tedious research. Often, their work is then published online for the benefit of other collectors.

Many of the other data sources for the area have been listed on: http://testbed.fmi.fi/Instrumentation.html.