In the previous example, we analyzed the performance of dialysis centers using Python. Dialysis centers are just one small part of the healthcare provider pool – a pool which also includes hospitals, outpatient offices, nursing homes, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, and hospice providers, for example. As you were downloading the dialysis facility comparison data from https://data.medicare.gov, you might have noticed the presence of performance data for these other facilities. We are going to now examine the data for a more complex facility type: the inpatient hospital. The Hospital Compare dataset includes data for three of the eight CMS value-based programs. It is a large dataset, and we are going to demonstrate some advanced Python and pandas features using this data.
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