Nurse Researchers will be glad to know that CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) began releasing a new version of Medicaid data – Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information file (T-MSIS). This is a big news for researchers working with CMS databases, as T-MSIS promises to have cleaner data with more variables. Also, data for T-MSIS files are collected from states on a monthly basis instead of quarterly starting with 2014 Medicaid data. Although CMS has issued information on their website (link), our research team developed a short comparison table describing 11 key differences between the original MSIS and new T-MSIS files. #LoveDataWeek