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moreilly
Calcite | Level 5

I am working with Medicare claims data and am trying to merge two datasets (TRIGGERS and CLAIMS).  TRIGGERS has the variables bene_id, claim_id and date.  In TRIGGERS there is one claim (observation) per bene_id.  CLAIMS has bene_id, claim_id, date and diagnostic codes. In CLAIMS, each bene_id may have multiple claims (multiple observations).  I want to create a new dataset, LOOKBACK, that keeps only the bene_ids that are in both TRIGGERS and CLAIMS and keeps multiple claims (observations) for every bene_id.  I expected the following code to work, but I seemed to lose the claim from TRIGGER.  Any suggestions?

 

 proc sort data = out.triggers; by bene_id; run;

 proc sort data = work.claims; by bene_id; run;

data lookback;
merge out.triggers (in=a) work.claims (in=b);
by bene_id; if a and b;
run;

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Astounding
PROC Star

Your final data set can only have one variable named CLAIM_ID.  If it appears in both data sets and you want both, this is one possible change to handle it:

 

merge out.triggers (in=a rename=(claim_id=trigger_claim_id)) work.claims (in=b);

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collinelliot
Barite | Level 11

What does the log say? If none of these match you should be getting zero obs due to the "if a and b;" Have you compared the values for bene_id in both data sets to make sure they have any overlap at all?

moreilly
Calcite | Level 5

There is overlap.  This is the log message:

 

NOTE: There were 711292 observations read from the data set TRIGGERS.
NOTE: There were 86214334 observations read from the data set CLAIMS.
NOTE: The data set WORK.LOOKBACK has 23448038 observations and 17 variables.

But, when I look at the data, the date from the TRIGGER observation has been lost.

Astounding
PROC Star

Your final data set can only have one variable named CLAIM_ID.  If it appears in both data sets and you want both, this is one possible change to handle it:

 

merge out.triggers (in=a rename=(claim_id=trigger_claim_id)) work.claims (in=b);

moreilly
Calcite | Level 5

That did it!  Thank you!

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