Medicare Drug Spending & Utilization

Access comprehensive Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) data on drug spending, physician prescribing patterns, hospital utilization metrics, and provider payment analysis through the Socrata Open Data API. This skill enables AI agents to query real federal healthcare expenditure datasets, supporting health economics research, formulary management, prescribing pattern analysis, and healthcare policy evaluation.

Quick Install

npx skills add Open-Medica/open-medical-skills --skill medicare-drug-stats

What It Does

• Drug spending analysis across Medicare Part B and Part D programs including total spending, per-unit cost, per-beneficiary cost, year-over-year price changes, and manufacturer rebate impact data
• Prescriber-level data queries to examine individual provider prescribing patterns, total claim counts, beneficiary counts, and drug-specific utilization for any Medicare-enrolled prescriber by NPI number
• Geographic utilization analysis with spending and utilization data aggregated at state, hospital referral region (HRR), and county levels to identify regional variation in prescribing and costs
• Hospital utilization metrics including DRG-level discharge counts, average covered charges, total Medicare payments, and length-of-stay data by facility and diagnosis
• Trend analysis support with multi-year datasets enabling year-over-year comparisons of drug prices, utilization volumes, prescribing shifts, and spending trajectories

Clinical Use Cases