Loader for raw CMS Medicare data

Source code

Tool. Runs: dorieh.cms.tools.mcr_fts2db

Description

This tool loads CMS Medicare data from *.dat files accompanied by FTS files, describing their metadata

Inputs

Name	Type	Default	Description
database	File		Path to database connection file, usually database.ini
connection_name	string		The name of the section in the database.ini file
input	Directory		A path to directory, containing unpacked CMS files. The tool will recursively look for data files according to provided pattern
threads	int	4	number of threads, concurrently writing into the database
page_size	int	1000	explicit page size for the database
log_frequency	long	100000	informational logging occurs every specified number of records
limit	long?		if specified, the process will stop after ingesting the specified number of records
depends_on	File?		a special field used to enforce dependencies and execution order

Outputs

Name	Type	Description
log	File
registry	File
err	stderr