I got the following working (omg finally):   I think the lowercase column names matter. There was also a random character at the bottom of the scorevar.sas file that had some messed up encoding. All-in-all, it was a pretty absurd amount of trial and error to get this thing working.  It'd be nice if CMS would put out a ready-to-run SAS program along with example input/output data.  Special shout-out to the National Bureau of Economic Research for putting this page together with examples: http://www.nber.org/data/cms-risk-adjustment.html ... View more

Alternatively, you could download it to a SAS dataset. Then you could change it, run it, and/or export it to a csv or whatever kind of file you want. e.g.:   proc format lib=work.formats cntlout=want;; select a-zzzzzzzz $a-$zzzzzzzz; run; Art, CEO, AnalystFinder.com       ... View more

I am not sure what the value is in this whole bit of code.  The only part which actually changes is the word most or least, so why not evaluate than and drop all the rest of it?  E.g. data _null_; call symputx('word',ifc("&param."="A members","most","least")); run; title "The &word. abundant group is %upcase(&param.)"; proc print data=customer; where customer_group="&param."; var name gender age customer_group; run; ... View more