State Service Area Data

The State Service Area data package is a compressed file (using SecureZIP) consisting 
of the following files:

Read_Me_State_Service_Area.txt - this file
State_service_area_YYYY_MM.csv - data file in comma separated value format
State_service_area_YYYY_MM.xls - data file in Microsoft Excel format

Please note that anywhere you see YYYY it denotes the 4 digit year and MM = the 2 digit 
month the file covers.

The information contained in the two data files is identical. It represents the States
where the contract provides services and indicates whether the entire state is covered or
not during the month represented in the file name.

Text values in the CSV file are surrounded by a double quote (") so that commas that are
part of an organization name could be included. The data type of each column is shown 
in brackets ([]) below. The files contain the following columns (these column names 
are included as the first row of data in each file):

  Contract Number - [text] - The contract number
  Contract Name - [text] - The name of the organization
  Organization Type - [text] - The type of contract held by the organization with CMS 
  Plan Type - [text] - The type of plan offered to beneficiaries
  Effective Date  - [text] - The date the contract began providing service for CMS
  State Code - [text] - The two character FIPS code for the state where service is provided
  Entire State - [text ] - "Yes" = entire state is covered, "No" = only some of the state is covered.


This file contains data for the following organization types (where there are active contracts): 

  Local CCP
  Regional CCP
  MSA 
  PFFS 
  Demonstrations 
  National PACE 
  1976 Cost 
  1933 HCPP 
  Employer/Union Only Direct Contract PDP
  PDP

Special Notes: 

  (1) The service area for HCPP - 1933 Cost organizations is the entire United States.
  CMS systems have not traditionally stored the 3300 plus rows of data to define
  each and every state and county for this organization type. This file continues
  this tradition because to expand out these contracts would add close to 30,000
  rows of data. These specific contracts have information in the notes column.