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+Order and Referring Medicare Data | CMS
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+You can subscribe to the AWS Data Exchange product utilizing the automation featured in this repository by visiting [https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-ymiystuotpuwa](https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-ymiystuotpuwa).
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+Main Overview
+-------------
+
+This release provides information of medical specialists, physicians and other healthcare professionals who can be consulted by those in the Medicare program released by
+the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
+
+Centers for Medicare & Medicaid provide substantial amounts of data to
+the public about their programs, various health care topics, and care
+settings. If you are interested in learning more about datasets released
+by the CMS, please visit the [CMS Data homepage](https://data.cms.gov/).
+
+#### Data Source
+
+This resource is presented in both the JSON and CSV formats. The
+included dataset contains the following columns:
+
+`"npi", "last_name", "first_name", "partb", "dme", "hha", "pmd"`
+
+More Information
+----------------
+
+- Source - [Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
+ (CMS)](https://www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/Administrative-Simplification/NationalProvIdentStand/DataDissemination)
+- [CMS Data Homepage](https://data.cms.gov/)
+- [Terms of Use](https://www.usa.gov/government-works) 
+- Frequency: Weekly
+- Formats: CSV, JSON
+
+Contact Details
+---------------
+
+- If you find any issues or have enhancements with this product, open
+ up a GitHub
+ [issue](https://github.com/rearc-data/Data-Dissmenination-CMS/issues)
+ and we will gladly take a look at it. Better yet, submit a pull
+ request. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated :heart:.
+- If you are interested in any other open datasets, please create a
+ request on our project board
+ [here](https://github.com/rearc-data/covid-datasets-aws-data-exchange/projects/1).
+- If you have questions about this source data, please send the
+ Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services an email at [email protected].
+- If you have any other questions or feedback, send us an email at
+ [email protected].
+
+About Rearc
+-----------
+
+Rearc is a cloud, software and services company. We believe that
+empowering engineers drives innovation. Cloud-native architectures,
+modern software and data practices, and the ability to safely experiment
+can enable engineers to realize their full potential. We have partnered
+with several enterprises and startups to help them achieve agility. Our
+approach is simple — empower engineers with the best tools possible to
+make an impact within their industry.