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through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid. Moreover, there are private companies that combine
information from multiple insurers and make the data available, although the cost can be quite high. One
such is the Thomson Medstat Marketscan data. It is extremely useful, but highly expensive. However,
Thomson Medstat does have a dissertation program available for PhD students who want to use the data
to examine health outcomes. Students individually have to request access to the data.
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