The CMS Open Payments Portal
In this section, we will begin developing our application for CMS Open Payments.
The Packt Data Science VM contains all the necessary software for this tutorial. To download the VM, please refer to Chapter 3, The Analytics Toolkit.
Downloading the CMS Open Payments data
The CMS Open Payments data is available directly as a web-based download from the CMS website. We'll download the data using the Unix wget utility, but first we have to register with the CMS website to get our own API key:
- Go to https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov and click on the
Sign Inlink at the top-right of the page:
Homepage of CMS OpenPayments
Click on Sign Up:
Sign-Up Page on CMS OpenPayments
Enter your information and click on the Create My Account button:
Sign-Up Form for CMS OpenPayments
Sign In to your account:
Signing into CMS OpenPayments
Click on Manage under Packt Developer's Applications. Note that Applications here refers to apps that you may create that will query data available on the...
