Physician Compare
physician_compare is a gem which provides an easy way to read the csv files provided in the Medicare Physician Compare data set.
Installation
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'hospital_compare', git: 'git@github.com:carp47/hospital_compare.git'
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install physician_compare
Usage
NOTE: There are several places where you can download the data and it can be in a different format. This gem is intended to be used with the CSV dump which can be found under the export tab here:
https://data.medicare.gov/Physician-Compare/National-Downloadable-File/s63f-csi6
Here is a direct link to the data:
https://data.medicare.gov/api/views/s63f-csi6/rows.csv?accessType=DOWNLOAD
Contributing
- Fork it ( https://github.com/[my-github-username]/physician_compare/fork )
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature
) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add some feature'
) - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature
) - Create a new Pull Request