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How to connect Google Sheets to live Medicare data

This is pretty cool. Medicare/CMS posts a lot of their data in two main websites for public consumption:

Data.Medicare.gov
Data.CMS.gov

I don't know why these two are separated, but it does seem like they host two separate datasets of healthcare data.

One can connect Windows Excel to an OData feed from Medicare/CMS, but I can't figure out how to do it with Mac Excel '11 (I don't have a Windows computer). I prefer using Google Sheets anyways, so I wanted to find an easy way to connect Sheets to Medicare/CMS data.

Here's the technique I have found, and please let me know if there is a better way:

1. First, access the table of data you want. For me it was this one:

https://data.cms.gov/Public-Use-Files/Medicare-Provider-Utilization-and-Payment-Data-Phy/ee7f-sh97

2. Because these tables are usually massive, you will probably need to login and create a saved view of a subset of the data.

Here's the subset of data I created, where I did a search for "Mohseni":

https://data.cms.gov/Public-Use-Files/test1/5fxd-ai9f



3. Click on "Export", then "Download",  and then right click and save the link to the CSV file. Let me clarify: don't click the CSV file to download it, rather right click and save the LINK to the CSV file. It should be something like this:

https://data.cms.gov/api/views/5fxd-ai9f/rows.csv?accessType=DOWNLOAD

4. Go to Google Sheets and use the following function:

=IMPORTDATA("url")

... and put your url that you just copied in the url spot.

=IMPORTDATA("https://data.cms.gov/api/views/5fxd-ai9f/rows.csv?accessType=DOWNLOAD")

...

Now, every time the data is updated, your Google Sheet will update as well.

This process will not work if your data set is too large.

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