[{"ID":130,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-050","TITLE":"2000 Full Year Consolidated Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2003-06-24T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2000","YEAR":"2000","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) and a SAS transport dataset, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian non-institutionalized population of the United States for calendar year 2000. This file consists of MEPS survey data obtained in Rounds 3, 4, and 5 of Panel 4 and Rounds 1, 2, and 3 of Panel 5 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2000) and consolidates all of the final 2000 person-level variables onto one file. This file contains the following variables previously released on HC-039: survey administration, demographics, employment, health status, quality of care, patient satisfaction and health insurance. The HC-050 file also includes these variables: parent identifiers, access to care and disability days variables, language of interview variable, income variables, additional health insurance variables including summary indicators, and use and expenditure variables.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-054: 1999 and 2000 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 03-DP01","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-050 2000 Full Year Consolidated Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":371,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-163","TITLE":"2013 Full Year Consolidated Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2015-09-17T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2013","YEAR":"2013","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) and a SAS transport dataset, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for calendar year 2013. This file consists of MEPS survey data obtained in Rounds 3, 4, and 5 of Panel 17 and Rounds 1, 2, and 3 of Panel 18 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2013) and consolidates all of the final 2013 person-level variables onto one file. This file contains the following variables previously released on HC-157: survey administration, language of interview variable, demographics, parent identifiers, health status, disability days variables, access to care, employment, quality of care, patient satisfaction, health insurance, and use variables. The HC-163 file also includes these variables: income variables and expenditure variables.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-163 2013 Full Year Consolidated Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":412,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-181","TITLE":"2015 Full Year Consolidated Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2017-08-16T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2015","YEAR":"2015","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) and a SAS transport dataset, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for calendar year 2015. This file consists of MEPS survey data obtained in Rounds 3, 4, and 5 of Panel 19 and Rounds 1, 2, and 3 of Panel 20 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2015) and consolidates all of the final 2015 person-level variables onto one file. This file contains the following variables previously released on HC-174: survey administration, language of interview variable, demographics, parent identifiers, health status, disability days variables, access to care, employment, quality of care, patient satisfaction, health insurance, and use variables. The HC-181 file also includes these variables: income variables and expenditure variables.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-181 2015 Full Year Consolidated Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":340,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-149","TITLE":"2012 Full Year Population Characteristics
(HC-149 replaced by HC-155)","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2014-02-26T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2012","YEAR":"2012","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) and a SAS transport dataset, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian non-institutionalized population of the United States for calendar year 2012. This file consists of MEPS survey data obtained in Rounds 3, 4, and 5 of Panel 16 and Rounds 1, 2, and 3 of Panel 17 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2012) and contains variables pertaining to survey administration, demographics, employment, health status, quality of care, patient satisfaction, health insurance and person-level medical care use counts. The 2012 Full-Year expenditure and income data will be forthcoming.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-149: 2012 Full Year Population Characteristics","REPLACEDLINK":"HC-155"},{"ID":370,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-161","TITLE":"2013 Person Round Plan File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2015-09-17T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2013","YEAR":"2013","DESCRIPTION":"This MEPS public use release is one in a series of data releases drawn from the 2013 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). This release contains the Person Round Plan (PRPL) file for 2013. This file contains records for persons insured through private establishments providing hospital/physician, medigap, dental, vision or prescription medication coverage and includes variables pertaining to managed care and experiences with plans. These are designed to facilitate research on the sometimes complex and dynamic relationships between consumers and their private insurance. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements, and in SAS Transport format, the PRPL file is not a person-level file and linking it to a MEPS full year person-level file requires users making analytic decisions based on understanding the complexity of the PRPL file.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-161 2013 Person Round Plan File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":457,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-200","TITLE":"2017 Person Round Plan File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2019-08-23T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2017","YEAR":"2017","DESCRIPTION":"This MEPS public use release is one in a series of data releases drawn from the 2017 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). This release contains the Person Round Plan (PRPL) file for 2017. This file contains records for persons insured through private establishments providing hospital/physician, medigap, dental, vision or prescription medication coverage and includes variables pertaining to managed care and experiences with plans. These are designed to facilitate research on the sometimes complex and dynamic relationships between consumers and their private insurance. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the PRPL file is not a person-level file and linking it to a MEPS full year person-level file requires users making analytic decisions based on understanding the complexity of the PRPL file. For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-200: 2017 Person Round Plan File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":413,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-179","TITLE":"2015 Person Round Plan File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2017-08-25T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2015","YEAR":"2015","DESCRIPTION":"This MEPS public use release is one in a series of data releases drawn from the 2015 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). This release contains the Person Round Plan (PRPL) file for 2015. This file contains records for persons insured through private establishments providing hospital/physician, medigap, dental, vision or prescription medication coverage and includes variables pertaining to managed care and experiences with plans. These are designed to facilitate research on the sometimes complex and dynamic relationships between consumers and their private insurance. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements, and in SAS Transport format, the PRPL file is not a person-level file and linking it to a MEPS full year person-level file requires users making analytic decisions based on understanding the complexity of the PRPL file.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-179 2015 Person Round Plan File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":426,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-187","TITLE":"2016 Full Year Medical Organizations Survey File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2018-05-25T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2016","YEAR":"2016","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) and a SAS transport dataset, this public use dataset contains data on usual source of care provider characteristics for 9,137 sample persons whose providers were respondents to the 2016 MEPS MOS. This file includes the following variables: survey administration, organizational characteristics, case management and use of clinical quality data, and financial arrangements. These data can be linked to MEPS sample respondents in the 2016 Full Year Consolidated Data File to enable analyses at the person-level using characteristics of provider practices. This project was funded in part by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.\r\n\r\n","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-187: 2016 Full Year Medical Organizations Survey File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":396,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-173","TITLE":"2014 Preventive Care Self-Administered Questionnaire File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2016-12-23T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2014","YEAR":"2014","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file provides information on preventive health care data collected for calendar year 2014 and is released as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) and a SAS transport dataset. The 2014 Preventive Care Self-Administered Questionnaire (PSAQ), a paper-and-pencil questionnaire was fielded during Panel 18 Round 5 of the 2014 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS). The survey was designed to collect a variety of person-level preventive health care data for adults. A subset of adults age 35 and older as of the Round 5 interview date (AGE53X >= 35) in MEPS households were asked to complete a PSAQ. The questionnaires were administered in early 2015.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-173: 2014 Preventive Care Self-Administered Questionnaire File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":512,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-223","TITLE":"2020 Person Round Plan File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2022-09-09T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2020","YEAR":"2020","DESCRIPTION":"The Person Round Plan (PRPL) public use file is one in a series of data releases drawn from the 2020 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). This file contains records for persons insured through private establishments providing hospital/physician, medigap, dental, vision or prescription medication coverage and includes variables pertaining to managed care and experiences with plans. These are designed to facilitate research on the sometimes complex and dynamic relationships between consumers and their private insurance. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the PRPL file is not a person-level file. Linking it to a MEPS full-year, person-level file requires users to make analytic decisions with an understanding of the complexity of the PRPL file. For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-223: 2020 Person Round Plan File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":513,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-221","TITLE":"2020 Food Security File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2022-09-23T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2020","YEAR":"2020","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, Stata, and R programming statements and data user information), a SAS dataset, a SAS transport dataset, a Stata dataset, and an Excel file, this public use dataset contains data on 11,992 households who participated in the MEPS Household Component of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey in 2020. These households received a positive family-level weight and were part of one of the three MEPS panels for whom food security data were collected in Round 6 of Panel 23, Round 4 of Panel 24, or Round 2 of Panel 25. This file can be linked to the 2020 Full Year Consolidated file by DUID and RULETR42 to obtain additional data for the families included in this file. The reference person of the RU can be identified in the Full Year Consolidated data file by the variable REFPRS42.\n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-221: 2020 Food Security File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":514,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-225","TITLE":"MEPS Panel 24 Longitudinal Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2022-09-23T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2019-2020","YEAR":"2019-2020","DESCRIPTION":"This file is a two-year longitudinal file derived from the respondents to the MEPS Panel 24 sample. The persons on this data set represent those who were in the MEPS population (U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized) for all or part of the 2019-2020 period. The file contains a longitudinal weight variable (LONGWT) and all variables from the 2019 and 2020 full-year consolidated data files (HC-216 and HC-224, respectively). The weight variable (LONGWT), when applied to the persons who participated in both 2019 and 2020, will enable the user to make national estimates of person-level changes in selected variables (e.g., health insurance, health status, utilization, and expenditures). In addition, LONGWT can be used to develop cross-sectional type estimates for the two-year period and for each year individually based on only the Panel 24 sample.\n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-225: MEPS Panel 24 Longitudinal Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":492,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-214","TITLE":"2019 Medical Conditions File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2021-08-27T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2019","YEAR":"2019","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file provides information on household-reported medical conditions collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for the 2019 MEPS Household Component. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements and in a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, this public use file provides information on the household-reported medical conditions reported in the 2019 portion of Rounds 3, 4 and 5 for Panel 23, as well as the 2019 portion of Rounds 1, 2, and 3 for Panel 24 (i.e., rounds for MEPS panels covering calendar year 2019). ICD-10 codes and Clinical Classification Software Refined (CCSR) codes are provided. For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-214: 2019 Medical Conditions File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":493,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-215","TITLE":"2019 Person Round Plan File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2021-08-27T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2019","YEAR":"2019","DESCRIPTION":"This MEPS public use release is one in a series of data releases drawn from the 2019 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). This release contains the Person Round Plan (PRPL) file for 2019. This file contains records for persons insured through private establishments providing hospital/physician, medigap, dental, vision or prescription medication coverage and includes variables pertaining to managed care and experiences with plans. These are designed to facilitate research on the sometimes complex and dynamic relationships between consumers and their private insurance. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the PRPL file is not a person-level file and linking it to a MEPS full year person-level file requires users making analytic decisions based on understanding the complexity of the PRPL file. For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-215: Person Round Plan File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":497,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-218","TITLE":"2020 Jobs File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2022-03-31T00:00:01","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2020","YEAR":"2020","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file contains jobs-level data from the 2020 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS-HC). Released both as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements) and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the calendar year 2020. The file contains job-level information collected in Rounds 6-7 for Panel 23, Rounds 3-5 for Panel 24, and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 25 of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2020). This year, 2020, is the first data year to include three panels of data; Panel 23 was extended to include Rounds 6 and 7. The file includes variables pertaining to household-reported jobs, including wages, hours, industry, and occupation.

For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".

The MEPS Industry Codes Condensing Rules and Occupation Codes Condensing Rules are now located in the Documentation Appendix, and no longer listed as separate files.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-218: 2020 Jobs File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":248,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-103","TITLE":"2006 Person Round Plan File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2008-10-24T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2006","YEAR":"2006","DESCRIPTION":"This MEPS public use release is one in a series of data releases drawn from the 2006 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). This release contains the Person Round Plan (PRPL) file for 2006. This file contains records for persons insured through private establishments providing hospital/physician, medigap, dental, vision or prescription medication coverage and includes variables pertaining to managed care and experiences with plans. These are designed to facilitate research on the sometimes complex and dynamic relationships between consumers and their private insurance. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements, and in SAS Transport format, the PRPL file is not a person-level file and linking it to a MEPS full year person-level file requires users making analytic decisions based on understanding the complexity of the PRPL file.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-103 2006 Person Round Plan File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":498,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-219","TITLE":"2020 Full Year Population Characteristics File
(HC-219 replaced by HC-224)","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2022-03-31T00:00:01","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2020","YEAR":"2020","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS, STATA, SPSS, and R programming statements and data user information), a SAS data set, a SAS transport dataset, a Stata dataset, and an Excel file, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for calendar year 2020. This file consists of MEPS survey data obtained in Rounds 6 and 7 of Panel 23; Rounds 3, 4, and 5 of Panel 24; and Rounds 1, 2, and 3 of Panel 25, the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2020. 2020 is the first data year to include three panels of data; Panel 23 was extended to include Rounds 6 and 7. This file contains variables pertaining to survey administration, demographics, person-level conditions, health status, disability days, quality of care, employment, and health insurance. For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-219: 2020 Full Year Population Characteristics File","REPLACEDLINK":"HC-224"},{"ID":475,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-207","TITLE":"2018 Medical Conditions File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2020-08-28T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2018","YEAR":"2018","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file provides information on household-reported medical conditions collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for the 2018 MEPS Household Component. Released as an ASCII file (with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements, and also in a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, this public use file provides information on the household-reported medical conditions reported in the 2018 portion of Round 3 and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 22, as well as Rounds 1 and 2 and the 2018 portion of Round 3 for Panel 23 (i.e., rounds for MEPS panels covering calendar year 2018). ICD-10 codes and Clinical Classification Software Refined (CCSR) codes are provided.\n

Starting in 2018, instead of the XPORT engine, the CPORT procedure is used to create MEPS Public Use Files (PUFS) \nin transport format (excluding the 2018 Point-in-Time file, HC-036, and HC-036BRR). These CPORT data files \n(.ssp) cannot be read directly into R or Stata at this time. The ASCII (.dat) data file format can be used \ninstead, along with the corresponding instructions found in the 'Programming Statements' files. In addition, \nSAS users must use the CIMPORT procedure to restore the transport files (.ssp) into SAS data sets. For more \ndetails on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the \n MEPS GitHub page\n \"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-207: 2018 Medical Conditions File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":476,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-208","TITLE":"2018 Person Round Plan File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2020-08-28T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2018","YEAR":"2018","DESCRIPTION":"This MEPS public use release is one in a series of data releases drawn from the 2018 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). This release contains the Person Round Plan (PRPL) file for 2018. This file contains records for persons insured through private establishments providing hospital/physician, medigap, dental, vision or prescription medication coverage and includes variables pertaining to managed care and experiences with plans. These are designed to facilitate research on the sometimes complex and dynamic relationships between consumers and their private insurance. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the PRPL file is not a person-level file and linking it to a MEPS full year person-level file requires users making analytic decisions based on understanding the complexity of the PRPL file.\n

Starting in 2018, instead of the XPORT engine, the CPORT procedure is used to create MEPS Public Use Files (PUFS) \nin transport format (excluding the 2018 Point-in-Time file, HC-036, and HC-036BRR). These CPORT data files \n(.ssp) cannot be read directly into R or Stata at this time. The ASCII (.dat) data file format can be used \ninstead, along with the corresponding instructions found in the 'Programming Statements' files. In addition, \nSAS users must use the CIMPORT procedure to restore the transport files (.ssp) into SAS data sets. For more \ndetails on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the \n MEPS GitHub page\n \"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-208: 2018 Person Round Plan File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":477,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-209","TITLE":"2018 Full Year Consolidated Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2020-08-28T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2018","YEAR":"2018","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements) a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for calendar year 2018. This file consists of MEPS survey data obtained in Rounds 3, 4, and 5 of Panel 22 and Rounds 1, 2, and 3 of Panel 23 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2018) and consolidates all of the final 2018 person-level variables onto one file. This file contains the following variables previously released on HC-204: survey administration, language of interview variable, demographics, parent identifiers, health status, disability days variables, access to care, employment, quality of care, patient satisfaction, health insurance, and use variables. The HC-209 file also includes these variables: income variables and expenditure variables.\n

Starting in 2018, instead of the XPORT engine, the CPORT procedure is used to create MEPS Public Use Files (PUFS) \nin transport format (excluding the 2018 Point-in-Time file, HC-036, and HC-036BRR). These CPORT data files \n(.ssp) cannot be read directly into R or Stata at this time. The ASCII (.dat) data file format can be used \ninstead, along with the corresponding instructions found in the 'Programming Statements' files. In addition, \nSAS users must use the CIMPORT procedure to restore the transport files (.ssp) into SAS data sets. For more \ndetails on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the \n MEPS GitHub page\n \"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-209: 2018 Full Year Consolidated Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":553,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-241","TITLE":"2022 Medical Conditions File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2024-08-23T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2022","YEAR":"2022","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the 2022 Medical Conditions File is one in a series of public use data files drawn from the 2022 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). It provides information on household-reported medical conditions collected from a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for calendar year 2022. Each record represents one current medical condition reported for a person during Rounds 7-9 of Panel 24, Rounds 3-5 of Panel 26, and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 27 of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), corresponding to the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2022. Person-level data (e.g., demographic or health insurance characteristics) from the 2022 MEPS Full-Year Consolidated File (HC-243) can be merged to the records in this file using the DUPERSID variable. Data from this file also can be merged to the 2022 MEPS Event Files (HC-239A, and HC-239D through HC-239H) by using the link variables provided in the 2022 MEPS Appendix File (HC-239I). \n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".
\n
\n Update 11/2024
\n An error in data processing for the 2022 MEPS Medical Conditions PUF resulted in 7,655 extra conditions records on the file that do not link to 2022 medical events or prescription medicines. These records can be identified using the ERCOND, HHCOND, IPCOND, OBCOND, OPCOND, and RXCOND variables. For the erroneous extra records, ERCOND, HHCOND, IPCOND, OBCOND, OPCOND, and RXCOND are equal to 2, indicating that the condition record does not link to any medical event or prescription medicine.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-241: 2022 Medical Conditions File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":456,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-201","TITLE":"2017 Full Year Consolidated Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2019-08-15T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2017","YEAR":"2017","DESCRIPTION":"\"Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements) a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, \nthis public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized \npopulation of the United States for calendar year 2017. This file consists of MEPS survey data obtained in Rounds 3, 4, and 5 \nof Panel 21 and Rounds 1, 2, and 3 of Panel 22 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2017) and consolidates \nall of the final 2017 person-level variables onto one file. This file contains the following variables previously released on HC-194: \nsurvey administration, language of interview variable, demographics, parent identifiers, health status, disability days variables, \naccess to care, employment, quality of care, patient satisfaction, health insurance, and use variables. The HC-201 file also \nincludes these variables: income variables and expenditure variables.\n

The SAS transport format of the re-released HC-201 file was created using the CPORT procedure \n(instead of the XPORT engine). This CPORT data file (.ssp) cannot be read directly into R or Stata at \nthis time. The ASCII (.dat) data file format can be used instead, along with the corresponding instructions \nfound in the 'Programming Statements' files. In addition, SAS users must use the CIMPORT procedure to restore \nthe transport file (.ssp) into a SAS data set. For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the \n MEPS GitHub page\n \"externallink\".\"","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-201: 2017 Full Year Consolidated Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":411,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-180","TITLE":"2015 Medical Conditions File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2017-08-16T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2015","YEAR":"2015","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file provides information on household-reported medical conditions collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for the 2015 MEPS Household Component. Released as an ASCII file (with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements, and also in SAS transport format), this public use file provides information on the household-reported medical conditions reported in the 2015 portion of Round 3 and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 19, as well as Rounds 1 and 2 and the 2015 portion of Round 3 for Panel 20 (i.e., rounds for MEPS panels covering calendar year 2015). ICD-9 and Clinical Classification Codes are provided.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-180 2015 Medical Conditions","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":516,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-227","TITLE":"2021 Jobs File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2023-03-31T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2021","YEAR":"2021","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file contains jobs-level data from the 2021 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS-HC). Released both as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements and data user information), a SAS data set, a SAS transport dataset, a Stata dataset, and an Excel file, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the calendar year 2021. The file contains job-level information collected in Rounds 7-9 of Panel 23, Rounds 5-7 of Panel 24, Rounds 3-5 of Panel 25, and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 26 of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2021). This year, 2021, is the first data year to include four panels of data; Panel 23 was extended to include Rounds 8 and 9, Panel 24 was extended to include Rounds 6 and 7. The file includes variables pertaining to household-reported jobs, including earnings types, hours and weeks worked, establishment size, industry and occupation codes, retirement and other benefits offerings, and health insurance availability.\n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".

The MEPS Industry Codes Condensing Rules and Occupation Codes Condensing Rules are now located in the Documentation Appendix, and no longer listed as separate files.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-227: 2021 Jobs File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":517,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-228","TITLE":"2021 Full Year Population Characteristics File
(HC-228 replaced by HC-233)","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2023-03-31T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2021","YEAR":"2021","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file (with related R, SAS, SPSS, and Stata programming statements and data user information) and a SAS dataset, SAS transport dataset, Stata dataset, and Excel file, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for calendar year 2021. The file contains data collected in Rounds 7, 8, and 9 of Panel 23; Rounds 5, 6, and 7 of Panel 24; Rounds 3, 4, and 5 of Panel 25; and Rounds 1, 2, and 3 of Panel 26 of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2021). This year, 2021, is the first data year to include four panels of data; Panel 23 was extended to include Rounds 7, 8, and 9 and Panel 24 was extended to include Rounds 6, and 7. In addition, the Panel 24 Round 5 reference period was extended into 2021 instead of ending on 12/31/2020. This file contains variables pertaining to survey administration, demographics, person-level conditions, health status, disability days, quality of care, health care delays due to COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccinations, Social Determinants of Health (SDOH), employment, and health insurance. The 2021 full-year expenditure, medical care use counts and income data will be forthcoming.\n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-228: 2021 Full Year Population Characteristics File","REPLACEDLINK":"HC-233"},{"ID":557,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-245","TITLE":"MEPS Panel 24 Four-Year Longitudinal Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2024-11-22T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2019-2022","YEAR":"2019,2020,2021,2022","DESCRIPTION":"This file is a four-year longitudinal file derived from the respondents to the MEPS Panel 24 sample. The persons on this data set represent those who were in the MEPS population (U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized) for all or part of the 2019-2022 period. The file contains a longitudinal weight variable (LONGWT) and all variables from the 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 full-year consolidated data files (HC-216, HC-224, HC-233, and HC-243, respectively). When applied to the persons who participated in 2019-2022, LONGWT enables users to make national estimates of person-level changes in selected variables (e.g., health insurance, health status, utilization, and expenditures). In addition, LONGWT can be used to develop cross-sectional type estimates for the four-year period and for each year individually based on only the Panel 24 sample. \n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-245: MEPS Panel 24, Four-Year Longitudinal Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":549,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-240","TITLE":"2022 Food Security File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2024-07-31T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2022","YEAR":"2022","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, this public use file contains data on 9,848 households who participated in the Household Component of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) in 2022. These households received a positive family-level weight and were part of one of the three MEPS panels for whom food security data were collected during Round 8 of Panel 24, Round 4 of Panel 26, and Round 2 of Panel 27. This file can be linked to the 2022 Full-Year Consolidated Data File using the variables DUID and RULETR42 to obtain additional data for the families included in this file. The reference person of the RU can be identified in the Full-Year Consolidated Data File by the variable REFPRS42.\n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-240: 2022 Food Security File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":434,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-190","TITLE":"2016 Medical Conditions File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2019-05-10T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2016","YEAR":"2016","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file provides information on household-reported medical conditions collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for the 2016 MEPS Household Component. This file was re-released in November 2022 as an ASCII file (with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements), and also in a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file. This public use file provides information on the household-reported medical conditions reported in the 2016 portion of Round 3 and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 20, as well as Rounds 1 and 2 and the 2016 portion of Round 3 for Panel 21 (i.e., rounds for MEPS panels covering calendar year 2016). ICD-10 codes and Clinical Classification Software Refined (CCSR) codes are provided.
\n
\nNote that the re-released SAS transport file was created using the CPORT procedure (instead of the XPORT engine). These CPORT data files (.ssp) cannot be read directly into R or Stata at this time, and one of the other provided file types must be used. For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-190: 2016 Medical Conditions File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":556,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-244","TITLE":"MEPS Panel 26 Longitudinal Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2024-09-27T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2021-2022","YEAR":"2021-2022","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, this public use dataset is a two-year longitudinal file of respondents to the MEPS Panel 26 sample. The persons on this data set represent those who were in the MEPS population (U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized) for all or part of the 2021-2022 period. The file contains a longitudinal weight variable (LONGWT) and all variables from the 2021 and 2022 Full Year Consolidated Data Files (HC-233 and HC-243, respectively). When applied to the persons who participated in both 2021 and 2022, the weight variable (LONGWT) enables users to make national estimates of person-level changes in selected variables (e.g., health insurance, health status, utilization, and expenditures). In addition, LONGWT can be used to develop cross-sectional type estimates for the two-year period and for each year individually based on only the Panel 26 sample. \n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-244: MEPS Panel 26 Longitudinal Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":458,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-199","TITLE":"2017 Medical Conditions File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2019-08-23T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2017","YEAR":"2017","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file provides information on household-reported medical conditions collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for the 2017 MEPS Household Component. This file was re-released in November 2022 as an ASCII file (with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements), a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file. This public use file provides information on the household-reported medical conditions reported in the 2017 portion of Round 3 and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 21, as well as Rounds 1 and 2 and the 2017 portion of Round 3 for Panel 22 (i.e., rounds for MEPS panels covering calendar year 2017). ICD-10 codes and Clinical Classification Software Refined (CCSR) codes are provided.
\n
\nNote that the re-released SAS transport file was created using the CPORT procedure (instead of the XPORT engine). These CPORT data files (.ssp) cannot be read directly into R or Stata at this time, and one of the other provided file types must be used. For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-199: 2017 Medical Conditions File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":515,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-226","TITLE":"MEPS Panel 23 Three-Year Longitudinal Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2022-12-09T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2018-2020","YEAR":"2018,2019,2020","DESCRIPTION":"This file is a three-year longitudinal file derived from the respondents to the MEPS Panel 23 sample. The persons on this data set represent those who were in the MEPS population (U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized) for all or part of the 2018-2020 period. The file contains a longitudinal weight variable (LONGWT) and all variables from the 2018, 2019, and 2020 full-year consolidated data files (HC-209, HC-216, and HC-224, respectively). The weight variable (LONGWT), when applied to the persons who participated in 2018, 2019, and 2020, will enable the user to make national estimates of person-level changes in selected variables (e.g., health insurance, health status, utilization, and expenditures). In addition, LONGWT can be used to develop cross-sectional type estimates for the three-year period and for each year individually based on only the Panel 23 sample.\n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-226: MEPS Panel 23 Three-Year Longitudinal Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":510,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-224","TITLE":"2020 Full Year Consolidated Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2022-08-26T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2020","YEAR":"2020","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS, STATA, SPSS, and R programming statements and data user information), a SAS data set, a SAS transport dataset, a Stata dataset, and an Excel file, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for calendar year 2020. The file contains data collected in Rounds 6-7 for Panel 23, Rounds 3-5 for Panel 24, and Rounds 1-3 for Panel 25 of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2020) and consolidates all of the final 2020 person-level variables onto one file. This year, 2020, is the first data year to include three panels of data; Panel 23 was extended to include Rounds 6 and 7. This file contains the following variables previously released on HC-219: survey administration, language of interview variable, demographics, person-level priority conditions, access to care, patient satisfaction, health status, disability days, quality of care, employment, and health insurance. The HC-224 file also includes these variables: parent identifiers, Self-Administered Questionnaire (SAQ) variables, Diabetes Care Survey (DCS) variables, fully-imputed employment variables, use variables, income variables, and expenditure variables.\n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-224: 2020 Full Year Consolidated Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":536,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-235","TITLE":"MEPS Panel 24 Three-Year Longitudinal Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2023-10-27T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2019-2021","YEAR":"2019,2020,2021","DESCRIPTION":"This file is a three-year longitudinal file derived from the respondents to the MEPS Panel 24 sample. The persons on this data set represent those who were in the MEPS population (U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized) for all or part of the 2019-2021 period. The file contains a longitudinal weight variable (LONGWT) and all variables from the 2019, 2020, and 2021 full-year consolidated data files (HC-216, HC-224, HC233, respectively). When applied to the persons who participated in 2019, 2020, and 2021, the weight variable (LONGWT) enables users to make national estimates of person-level changes in selected variables (e.g., health insurance, health status, utilization, and expenditures). In addition, LONGWT can be used to develop cross-sectional type estimates for the three-year period and for each year individually based on only the Panel 24 sample. \n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-235: MEPS Panel 24 Three-Year Longitudinal Data File (2019-2021)","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":537,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-236","TITLE":"MEPS Panel 23 Four-Year Longitudinal Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2023-12-08T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2018-2021","YEAR":"2018,2019,2020,2021","DESCRIPTION":"This file is a four-year longitudinal file derived from the respondents to the MEPS Panel 23 sample. The persons on this data set represent those who were in the MEPS population (U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized) for all or part of the 2018-2021 period. The file contains a longitudinal weight variable (LONGWT) and all variables from the 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021 full-year consolidated data files (HC-209, HC-216, HC-224, and HC-233, respectively). When applied to the persons who participated in 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021, the weight variable (LONGWT) enables users to make national estimates of person-level changes in selected variables (e.g., health insurance, health status, utilization, and expenditures). In addition, LONGWT can be used to develop cross-sectional type estimates for the four-year period and for each year individually based on only the Panel 23 sample. \n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-236: MEPS Panel 23 Four-Year Longitudinal Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":558,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-246","TITLE":"2023 Jobs File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2025-03-07T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2023","YEAR":"2023","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements and data user information), a SAS data set, a SAS transport dataset, a Stata dataset, and an Excel file, the 2023 Jobs File provides job-level data collected on a nationally representative sample of the United States civilian noninstitutionalized population for calendar year 2023. This file contains data collected in Rounds 3-5 of Panel 27, and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 28, corresponding to the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2023. The dataset includes variables pertaining to household-reported jobs, including earnings types, hours and weeks worked, establishment size, industry and occupation codes, retirement and other benefits offerings, and health insurance availability. \n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".

\n\tThe MEPS Industry Codes Condensing Rules and Occupation Codes Condensing Rules are now located in the Documentation Appendix, and no longer listed as separate files.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-246: 2023 Jobs File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":559,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-247","TITLE":"2023 Full Year Population Characteristics
(HC-247 replaced by HC-251)","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2025-03-07T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2023","YEAR":"2023","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements and data user information), a SAS dataset, a SAS transport dataset, a Stata dataset, and an Excel file, the 2023 Full Year Population Characteristics File provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the United States civilian noninstitutionalized population for calendar year 2023. This file contains data collected in Rounds 3-5 of Panel 27, and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 28 of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), corresponding to the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2023. The dataset includes variables pertaining to survey administration, demographics, person-level conditions, health status, disability days, quality of care, employment, and health insurance. The 2023 full-year expenditure, medical care use counts, and income data will be forthcoming. \n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-247: 2023 Full Year Population Characteristics File","REPLACEDLINK":"HC-251"},{"ID":288,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-121","TITLE":"2008 Full Year Consolidated Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2010-11-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2008","YEAR":"2008","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) and a SAS transport dataset, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for calendar year 2008. This file consists of MEPS survey data obtained in Rounds 3, 4, and 5 of Panel 12 and Rounds 1, 2, and 3 of Panel 13 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2008) and consolidates all of the final 2008 person-level variables onto one file. This file contains the following variables previously released on HC-115: survey administration, language of interview variable, demographics, parent identifiers, health status, disability days variables, access to care, employment, quality of care, patient satisfaction, health insurance, and use variables. The HC-121 file also includes these variables: income variables and expenditure variables.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-121 2008 Full Year Consolidated Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":535,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-234","TITLE":"MEPS Panel 25 Longitudinal Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2023-10-13T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2020-2021","YEAR":"2020-2021","DESCRIPTION":"This file is a two-year longitudinal file of respondents to the MEPS Panel 25 sample. The persons on this data set represent those who were in the MEPS population (U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized) for all or part of the 2020-2021 period. The file contains a longitudinal weight variable (LONGWT) and all variables from the 2020 and 2021 full-year consolidated data files (HC-224 and HC-233, respectively). When applied to the persons who participated in both 2020 and 2021, the weight variable (LONGWT) enables users to make national estimates of person-level changes in selected variables (e.g., health insurance, health status, utilization, and expenditures). In addition, LONGWT can be used to develop cross-sectional type estimates for the two-year period and for each year individually based on only the Panel 25 sample.\n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-234: MEPS Panel 25 Longitudinal Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":303,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-127","TITLE":"2009 Person Round Plan File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2011-10-28T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2009","YEAR":"2009","DESCRIPTION":"This MEPS public use release is one in a series of data releases drawn from the 2009 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). This release contains the Person Round Plan (PRPL) file for 2009. This file contains records for persons insured through private establishments providing hospital/physician, medigap, dental, vision or prescription medication coverage and includes variables pertaining to managed care and experiences with plans. These are designed to facilitate research on the sometimes complex and dynamic relationships between consumers and their private insurance. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements, and in SAS Transport format, the PRPL file is not a person-level file and linking it to a MEPS full year person-level file requires users making analytic decisions based on understanding the complexity of the PRPL file.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-127 2009 Person Round Plan File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":304,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-129","TITLE":"2009 Full Year Consolidated Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2011-11-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2009","YEAR":"2009","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) and a SAS transport dataset, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for calendar year 2009. This file consists of MEPS survey data obtained in Rounds 3, 4, and 5 of Panel 13 and Rounds 1, 2, and 3 of Panel 14 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2009) and consolidates all of the final 2009 person-level variables onto one file. This file contains the following variables previously released on HC-123: survey administration, language of interview variable, demographics, parent identifiers, health status, disability days variables, access to care, employment, quality of care, patient satisfaction, health insurance, and use variables. The HC-129 file also includes these variables: income variables and expenditure variables.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-129 2009 Full Year Consolidated Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":509,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-222","TITLE":"2020 Medical Conditions File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2022-10-07T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2020","YEAR":"2020","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file provides information on household-reported medical conditions collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for the 2020 MEPS Household Component. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements and in a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, this public use file provides information on the household-reported medical conditions reported in Rounds 6-7 for Panel 23, Rounds 3-5 for Panel 24, and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 25 of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2020). This year, 2020, is the first data year to include three panels of data; Panel 23 was extended to include Rounds 6 and 7. ICD-10 codes and Clinical Classification Software Refined (CCSR) codes are provided. \n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-222: 2020 Medical Conditions File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":528,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-230","TITLE":"2021 Food Security File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2023-07-28T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2021","YEAR":"2021","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, Stata, and R programming statements and data user information), a SAS dataset, a SAS transport dataset, a Stata dataset, and an Excel file, this public use dataset contains data on 12,714 households who participated in the MEPS Household Component of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey in 2021. These households received a positive family-level weight and were part of one of the four MEPS panels for whom food security data were collected in in Round 8 of Panel 23, Round 6 of Panel 24, Round 4 of Panel 25, or Round 2 of Panel 26. This file can be linked to the 2021 full year Consolidated file by DUID and RULETR42 to obtain additional data for the families included in this file. The reference person of the RU can be identified in the Consolidated data file by the variable REFPRS42.\n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-230: 2021 Food Security File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":532,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-231","TITLE":"2021 Medical Conditions File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2023-08-25T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2021","YEAR":"2021","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements) and in a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the 2021 Medical Conditions File is one in a series of public use data files drawn from the 2021 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). It provides information on household-reported medical conditions collected from a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for calendar year 2021. Each record represents one current medical condition reported for a person during the 2021 portion of Round 7, and all of Rounds 8 and 9 for Panel 23; the 2021 portion of Rounds 5 and 7, and all of Round 6 for Panel 24; the 2021 portion of Round 3 and all of Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 25; and Rounds 1, 2, and the 2021 portion of Round 3 for Panel 26 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering the calendar year 2021). This year, 2021, is the first data year to include four panels of data. Because of concerns about lower response rates due to COVID-19, Panels 23 and 24 were extended to include 9 rounds of data collection; data for Rounds 7, 8, and 9 for Panel 23 and Rounds 5, 6, and 7 for Panel 24 are included in the 2021 data files. Person-level data (e.g., demographic or health insurance characteristics) from the 2021 MEPS Full-Year Consolidated File (HC-233) can be merged to the records in this file using the DUPERSID variable. Data from this file also can be merged to the 2021 MEPS Event Files (HC-229A, and HC-229D through HC-229H) by using the link files provided in the 2021 MEPS Appendix File (HC-229I). \n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".
\n
\n Update 11/2024
\n An issue was discovered with the construction of the flag variables ERCOND, HHCOND, IPCOND, OBCOND, OPCOND, and RXCOND in the 2021 MEPS Medical Conditions PUF. Please do not rely on these flags to identify which condition records link to which event types. Instead, perform the actual linkage to the medical event files using the Condition-Event Linkage file to determine which medical event types are linked to a particular condition record.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-231: 2021 Medical Conditions File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":190,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-076","TITLE":"2003 Person Round Plan File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2005-10-25T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2003","YEAR":"2003","DESCRIPTION":"This MEPS public use release is one in a series of data releases drawn from the 2003 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). This release contains the Person Round Plan (PRPL) file for 2003. This file contains records for persons insured through private establishments providing hospital/physician, medigap, dental, vision or prescription medication coverage and includes variables pertaining to managed care and experiences with plans. These are designed to facilitate research on the sometimes complex and dynamic relationships between consumers and their private insurance. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements, and in SAS Transport format, the PRPL file is not a person-level file and linking it to a MEPS full year person-level file (e.g., HC-079 for year 2003) requires users making analytic decisions based on understanding the complexity of the PRPL file.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-076 2003 Person Round Plan File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":533,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-232","TITLE":"2021 Person Round Plan Public Use File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2023-08-25T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2021","YEAR":"2021","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of data files drawn from the 2021 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, Stata, and R programming statements), a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a Stata file, and an Excel file, the 2021 Person Round Plan (PRPL) file contains records for persons insured through private establishments providing hospital/physician, medigap, dental, vision, or prescription medication coverage during calendar year 2021. These data are designed to facilitate research on the sometimes complex and dynamic relationships between consumers and their private insurance. Each record comprises data for a unique combination of insurance establishment, policyholder, interview round, insurance plan, and covered person. This public use data file contains data for each person with private health insurance reported in Rounds 7, 8, and 9 of Panel 23, Rounds 5, 6, and 7 of Panel 24, Rounds 3, 4, and 5 of Panel 25, and Rounds 1, 2, and 3 of Panel 26 (i.e., the rounds for the survey panels covering calendar year 2021) of the MEPS HC. This year, 2021, is the first data year to include four panels of data. Because of concerns about lower response rates due to COVID-19, Panels 23 and 24 were extended to include 9 rounds of data collection; data for Rounds 7, 8, and 9 for Panel 23 and Rounds 5, 6, and 7 for Panel 24 are included in the 2021 data files. Because the PRPL file is not a person-level file, linking it to the 2021 Full-Year Consolidated File (HC-233) requires users to make analytic decisions that reflect an understanding of the PRPL file's complexity. \n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-232: 2021 Person Round Plan Public Use File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":534,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-233","TITLE":"2021 Full Year Consolidated Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2023-08-25T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2021","YEAR":"2021","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS, STATA, SPSS, and R programming statements), a SAS transport file, a SAS v9 file, a Stata file, and an Excel file, the 2021 Full Year Consolidated Data File provides information collected from a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for calendar year 2021. This public use dataset contains variables and frequency distributions associated with 28,336 persons who participated in the MEPS Household Component (HC) in 2021. These data were collected during the 2021 portion of Round 7, and all of Rounds 8 and 9 for Panel 23; the 2021 portion of Rounds 5 and 7, and all of Round 6 for Panel 24; the 2021 portion of Round 3 and all of Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 25; and Rounds 1, 2, and the 2021 portion of Round 3 for Panel 26 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering the calendar year 2021). This year, 2021, is the first data year to include four panels of data. Because of concerns about lower response rates due to COVID-19, Panels 23 and 24 were extended to include 9 rounds of data collection; data for Rounds 7, 8, and 9 for Panel 23 and Rounds 5, 6, and 7 for Panel 24 are included in the 2021 data files. This file contains the following variables previously released on HC-228: survey administration, language of interview variable, demographics, person-level priority conditions, access to care, patient satisfaction, health status, disability days, quality of care, employment, and health insurance. The HC-233 file also includes these variables: Self-Administered Questionnaire (SAQ) variables, Diabetes Care Survey (DCS) variables, fully-imputed employment variables, use variables, income variables, and expenditure variables.\n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-233: 2021 Full Year Consolidated Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":478,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-210","TITLE":"MEPS Panel 22 Longitudinal Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2020-09-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2017-2018","YEAR":"2017-2018","DESCRIPTION":"This file is a two-year longitudinal file derived from the respondents to the MEPS Panel 22 sample. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the persons on this data set represent those who were in the MEPS population (U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized) for all or part of the 2017-2018 period. The file contains a longitudinal weight variable (LONGWT) and all variables from the 2017 and 2018 full-year consolidated data files (HC-201 and HC-209, respectively). The weight variable (LONGWT), when applied to the persons who participated in both 2017 and 2018, will enable the user to make national estimates of person-level changes in selected variables (e.g., health insurance, health status, utilization and expenditures). In addition, LONGWT can be used to develop cross-sectional type estimates for the two-year period and for each year individually based on only the Panel 22 sample.\n

Starting in 2018, instead of the XPORT engine, the CPORT procedure is used to create MEPS Public Use Files (PUFS) \nin transport format (excluding the 2018 Point-in-Time file, HC-036, and HC-036BRR). These CPORT data files \n(.ssp) cannot be read directly into R or Stata at this time. The ASCII (.dat) data file format can be used \ninstead, along with the corresponding instructions found in the 'Programming Statements' files. In addition, \nSAS users must use the CIMPORT procedure to restore the transport files (.ssp) into SAS data sets. For more \ndetails on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the \n MEPS GitHub page\n \"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-210: MEPS Panel 22 Longitudinal Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":214,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-088","TITLE":"2004 Person Round Plan File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2006-11-17T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2004","YEAR":"2004","DESCRIPTION":"This MEPS public use release is one in a series of data releases drawn from the 2004 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). This release contains the Person Round Plan (PRPL) file for 2004. This file contains records for persons insured through private establishments providing hospital/physician, medigap, dental, vision or prescription medication coverage and includes variables pertaining to managed care and experiences with plans. These are designed to facilitate research on the sometimes complex and dynamic relationships between consumers and their private insurance. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements, and in SAS Transport format, the PRPL file is not a person-level file and linking it to a MEPS full year person-level file (e.g., HC-089 for year 2004) requires users making analytic decisions based on understanding the complexity of the PRPL file.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-088 2004 Person Round Plan File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":554,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-242","TITLE":"2022 Person Round Plan Public Use File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2024-08-30T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2022","YEAR":"2022","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of data files drawn from the 2022 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the 2022 Person Round Plan (PRPL) File contains records for persons insured through private establishments providing hospital/physician, medigap, dental, vision, or prescription medication coverage during calendar year 2022. These data are designed to facilitate research on the sometimes complex and dynamic relationships between consumers and their private insurance. Each record comprises data for a unique combination of insurance establishment, policyholder, interview round, insurance plan, and covered person. The PRPL File contains data for each person with private health insurance reported in Rounds 7-9 of Panel 24, Rounds 3-5 of Panel 26, and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 27 of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), corresponding to the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2022. Because the PRPL File is not a person-level file, linking it to the 2022 Full-Year Consolidated File (HC-243) requires users to make analytic decisions that reflect an understanding of the PRPL file's complexity.\n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-242: 2022 Person Round Plan Public Use File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":555,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-243","TITLE":"2022 Full Year Consolidated Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2024-08-30T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2022","YEAR":"2022","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the 2022 Full Year Consolidated Data File provides information collected from a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for calendar year 2022. This public use dataset contains variables and frequency distributions associated with 22,431 persons who participated in the MEPS Household Component (HC) in 2022. These data were collected during Rounds 7-9 of Panel 24, Rounds 3-5 of Panel 26, and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 27 of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), corresponding to the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2022. The 2022 Full Year Consolidated Data File contains the following variables previously released on the 2022 Population Characteristics File (HC-238): survey administration, language of interview variable, demographics, person-level priority conditions, access to care, patient satisfaction, health status, disability days, quality of care, employment, and health insurance. The 2022 Full Year Consolidated Data File also includes these variables: Self-Administered Questionnaire (SAQ) variables, Diabetes Care Survey (DCS) variables, fully-imputed employment variables, use variables, income variables, and expenditure variables.\n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-243: 2022 Full Year Consolidated Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":589,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-255","TITLE":"2024 Medical Conditions File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2026-08-28T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2024","YEAR":"2024","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the 2024 Medical Conditions File is one in a series of public use data files drawn from the 2024 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). It provides information on household-reported medical conditions collected from a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for calendar year 2024. Each record represents one current medical condition reported for a person during Rounds 3-5 of Panel 28 and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 29 of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), corresponding to the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2024. Person-level data (e.g., demographic or health insurance characteristics) from the 2024 MEPS Full-Year Consolidated File (HC-256) can be merged to the records in this file using the DUPERSID variable. Data from this file also can be merged to the 2024 MEPS Event Files (HC-254A, and HC-254D through HC-254H) by using the link variables provided in the 2024 MEPS Appendix File (HC-254I).\nFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-255: 2024 Medical Conditions File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":572,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-249","TITLE":"2023 Medical Conditions File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2025-08-28T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2023","YEAR":"2023","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the 2023 Medical Conditions File is one in a series of public use data files drawn from the 2023 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). It provides information on household-reported medical conditions collected from a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for calendar year 2023. Each record represents one current medical condition reported for a person during Rounds 3-5 of Panel 27 and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 28 of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), corresponding to the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2023. Person-level data (e.g., demographic or health insurance characteristics) from the 2023 MEPS Full-Year Consolidated File (HC-251) can be merged to the records in this file using the DUPERSID variable. Data from this file also can be merged to the 2023 MEPS Event Files (HC-248A, and HC-248D through HC-248H) by using the link variables provided in the 2023 MEPS Appendix File (HC-248I).\n\t
For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-249: 2023 Medical Conditions File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":538,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-237","TITLE":"2022 Jobs File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2024-02-23T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2022","YEAR":"2022","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements and data user information), a SAS data set, a SAS transport dataset, a Stata dataset, and an Excel file, the 2022 Jobs File provides job-level data collected on a nationally representative sample of the United States civilian noninstitutionalized population for calendar year 2022. This file contains data collected in Rounds 7-9 of Panel 24, Rounds 3-5 of Panel 26, and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 27 of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), corresponding to the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2022. The dataset includes variables pertaining to household-reported jobs, including earnings types, hours and weeks worked, establishment size, industry and occupation codes, retirement and other benefits offerings, and health insurance availability. \n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".

\n\tThe MEPS Industry Codes Condensing Rules and Occupation Codes Condensing Rules are now located in the Documentation Appendix, and no longer listed as separate files.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-237: 2022 Jobs File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":539,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-238","TITLE":"2022 Full Year Population Characteristics
(HC-238 replaced by HC-243)","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2024-02-23T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2022","YEAR":"2022","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements and data user information), a SAS dataset, a SAS transport dataset, a Stata dataset, and an Excel file, the 2022 Full Year Population Characteristics File provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the United States civilian noninstitutionalized population for calendar year 2022. This file contains data collected in Rounds 7-9 of Panel 24, Rounds 3-5 of Panel 26, and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 27 of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), corresponding to the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2022. The dataset includes variables pertaining to survey administration, demographics, person-level conditions, health status, disability days, quality of care, employment, and health insurance. The 2022 full-year expenditure, medical care use counts, and income data will be forthcoming. \n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-238: 2022 Full Year Population Characteristics","REPLACEDLINK":"HC-243"},{"ID":573,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-250","TITLE":"2023 Person Round Plan File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2025-08-28T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2023","YEAR":"2023","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of data files drawn from the 2023 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the 2023 Person Round Plan (PRPL) File contains records for persons insured through private establishments providing hospital/physician, medigap, dental, vision, or prescription medication coverage during calendar year 2023. These data are designed to facilitate research on the sometimes complex and dynamic relationships between consumers and their private insurance. Each record comprises data for a unique combination of insurance establishment, policyholder, interview round, insurance plan, and covered person. The PRPL File contains data for each person with private health insurance reported in Rounds 3-5 of Panel 27 and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 28 of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), corresponding to the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2023. Because the PRPL File is not a person-level file, linking it to the 2023 Full-Year Consolidated File (HC-251) requires users to make analytic decisions that reflect an understanding of the PRPL file's complexity.\n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-250: 2023 Person Round Plan File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":574,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-251","TITLE":"2023 Full Year Consolidated Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2025-08-28T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2023","YEAR":"2023","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the 2023 Full Year Consolidated Data File provides information collected from a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for calendar year 2023. This public use dataset contains variables and frequency distributions associated with all persons who participated in the MEPS Household Component (HC) in 2023. These data were collected during Rounds 3-5 of Panel 27 and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 28 of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), corresponding to the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2023. The 2023 Full Year Consolidated Data File contains the following variables previously released on the 2023 Population Characteristics File (HC-247): survey administration, language of interview variable, demographics, person-level priority conditions, access to care, patient satisfaction, health status, disability days, quality of care, employment, and health insurance. The 2023 Full Year Consolidated Data File also includes these variables: Self-Administered Questionnaire (SAQ) variables, fully-imputed employment variables, use variables, income variables, and expenditure variables.\n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-251: 2023 Full Year Consolidated Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":575,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-252","TITLE":"MEPS Panel 27 Longitudinal Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2025-09-26T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2022-2023","YEAR":"2022-2023","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file (with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements), a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, an XLSX file, and a Stata file, this public-use dataset is a two-year longitudinal file of respondents from the MEPS Panel 27 sample. The persons on this dataset represent those who were in the MEPS population (U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized) for all or part of the 2022-2023 period. The file contains a longitudinal weight variable (LONGWT) and all variables from the 2022 and 2023 Full Year Consolidated Data Files (HC-243 and HC-251, respectively). When applied to the persons who participated in both 2022 and 2023, the weight variable (LONGWT) enables users to make national estimates of person-level changes in selected variables (e.g., health insurance, health status, utilization, and expenditures). In addition, LONGWT can be used to develop cross-sectional type estimates for the two-year period or for each year individually, based on only the Panel 27 sample.\n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-252: Panel 27 Longitudinal Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":479,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-211","TITLE":"2019 Jobs File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2021-02-26T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2019","YEAR":"2019","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file contains jobs-level data from the 2019 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS-HC). Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements), a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, an XLSX file, and a Stata file, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the calendar year 2019. The file contains job-level information collected in Round 3-5 for Panel 23 and Rounds 1-3 for Panel 24 of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2019); it includes variables pertaining to household-reported jobs, including wages, hours, industry, and occupation.\n

For more \ndetails on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the \n MEPS GitHub page\n \"externallink\".\n

The MEPS Industry Codes Condensing Rules and Occupation Codes Condensing Rules are now located in the Documentation Appendix, and no longer listed as separate files.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-211: 2019 Jobs File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":480,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-212","TITLE":"2019 Full Year Population Characteristics File
(HC-212 replaced by HC-216)","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2021-02-26T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2019","YEAR":"2019","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements), a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, an XLSX file, and a Stata file, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for calendar year 2019. This file consists of MEPS survey data obtained in Rounds 3, 4, and 5 of Panel 23 and Rounds 1, 2, and 3 of Panel 24 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2019) and consolidates all of the final 2019 person-level variables onto one file. This file contains the following variables: survey administration, language of interview variable, demographics, parent identifiers, health status, disability days variables, access to care, employment, quality of care, patient satisfaction, health insurance, use variables, income variables, and expenditure variables.\n

For more \ndetails on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the \n MEPS GitHub page\n \"externallink\".\n

The MEPS Industry Codes Condensing Rules and Occupation Codes Condensing Rules are now located in the Documentation Appendix, and no longer listed as separate files.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-212: 2019 Full Year Population Characteristics","REPLACEDLINK":"HC-216"},{"ID":590,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-256","TITLE":"2024 Full Year Consolidated Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2026-08-28T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2024","YEAR":"2024","DESCRIPTION":"Released as SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements, an ASCII data file, a SAS transport data file, a SAS V9 data file, an Excel file, and a Stata data file, the 2024 Full Year Consolidated Public Use File (PUF) provides information collected from a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for calendar year 2024. These data were collected during Rounds 3-5 of Panel 28 and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 29, corresponding to the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2024. This PUF contains all the person-level variables related to survey administration, demographics, person-level priority conditions, patient satisfaction, health status, disability days, quality of care, Self-Administered Questionnaire (SAQ), Cancer Self-Administered Questionnaire (CSAQ), food security (FS), financial well-being (FW), Economic Self-Administered Questionnaire (ESAQ ), access to care, employment, income, health insurance, health care utilization, and health care expenditures by event type and source of payment.\n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-256: 2024 Full Year Consolidated Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":69,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-028","TITLE":"1998 Full Year Consolidated Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2001-12-17T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1998","YEAR":"1998","DESCRIPTION":"This file consists of data obtained in Rounds 3, 4 and 5 of Panel 2 and Rounds 1, 2 and 3 of Panel 3 (i.e., the rounds covering calendar year 1998) and consolidates all of the final 1998 person-level variables onto one file. This file contains the following variables previously released on HC-021: survey administration, demographics, employment, health status and health insurance. The HC-028 file also includes: a revised full-year person level weight, income variables, use and expenditure variables and summary yearly health insurance variables.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-030: 1998 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 02-DP02","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-028 1998 Full Year Consolidated Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":441,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-195","TITLE":"2017 Jobs File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2019-02-22T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2017","YEAR":"2017","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file contains jobs-level data from the 2017 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS-HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and Stata programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the calendar year 2017. The file contains job-level information collected in Round 3-5 for Panel 21 and Rounds 1-3 for Panel 22 of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2017); it includes variables pertaining to household-reported jobs, including wages, hours, industry, and occupation. For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-195: 2017 Jobs File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":495,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-216","TITLE":"2019 Full Year Consolidated Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2021-08-27T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2019","YEAR":"2019","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS, STATA, SPSS, and R programming statements and data user information), a SAS data set, a SAS transport dataset, a Stata dataset, and an Excel file, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for calendar year 2019. This file consists of MEPS survey data obtained in Rounds 3, 4, and 5 of Panel 23 and Rounds 1, 2, and 3 of Panel 24 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2019) and consolidates all of the final 2019 person-level variables onto one file. This file contains the following variables previously released on HC-212: survey administration, language of interview variable, demographics, parent identifiers, health status, disability days variables, access to care, employment, quality of care, patient satisfaction, health insurance, and use variables. The HC-216 file also includes these variables: income variables and expenditure variables. For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-216: 2019 Full Year Consolidated Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":496,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-217","TITLE":"MEPS Panel 23 Longitudinal Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2021-09-24T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2018-2019","YEAR":"2019","DESCRIPTION":"This file is a two-year longitudinal file derived from the respondents to the MEPS Panel 23 sample. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the persons on this data set represent those who were in the MEPS population (U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized) for all or part of the 2018-2019 period. The file contains a longitudinal weight variable (LONGWT) and all variables from the 2018 and 2019 full-year consolidated data files (HC-209 and HC-216, respectively). The weight variable (LONGWT), when applied to the persons who participated in both 2018 and 2019, will enable the user to make national estimates of person-level changes in selected variables (e.g., health insurance, health status, utilization and expenditures). In addition, LONGWT can be used to develop cross-sectional type estimates for the two-year period and for each year individually based on only the Panel 23 sample. For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-217: MEPS Panel 23 Longitudinal Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":122,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-047","TITLE":"1997-2000 Person Round Plan Files","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2003-04-01T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1997-2000","YEAR":"1997, 1998, 1999, 2000","DESCRIPTION":"This MEPS public use release is one in a series of data releases drawn from the 1997-2000 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). This release contains four Person Round Plan (PRPL) files, one for each year 1997 (File 1) through 2000 (File 4). The HC-047 files contains records for persons insured through establishments providing hospital/physician, medigap, dental or prescription medication coverage and includes variables pertaining to managed care and satisfaction with plan coverage. These are designed to facilitate research on the sometimes complex and dynamic relationships between consumers and their private insurance. Released as ASCII files with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements, and in SAS Transport format, the PRPL files are not person-level files and linking a PRPL file to a MEPS full year person-level file (e.g., HC-038 for year 2000) requires users making analytic decisions based on understanding the complexity of the PRPL file.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-054: 1999 and 2000 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 03-DP01","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-047 1997-2000 Person Round Plan Files","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":134,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-049","TITLE":"1998 Long Term Care","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2003-07-31T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1998","YEAR":"1998","DESCRIPTION":"MEPS Public use file HC-049 is intended to supplement the MEPS variables previously released for 1998. This data set consists of one person-level file, containing data from the Household Component Long-Term Care Supplement. The MEPS LTC supplemental questionnaire is used to collect detailed information on individuals who have activity or functional limitations, hearing or vision impairments, and special equipment requirements. In order to use these variables, researchers will need to link them to the 1998 Consolidated Full-Year Use and Expenditure File (HC-028) which contains all previously released 1998 person level data including demographic and socio-economic information. Please refer to the HC-028 documentation for further information.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-049 1998 Long Term Care","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":109,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-044","TITLE":"1999 Supplemental Public Use File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2003-01-31T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1999","YEAR":"1999","DESCRIPTION":"This data release is intended to supplement MEPS variables previously released for 1999. The HC-044 data file is a person-level file, containing health insurance variables. In order to use these variables, this file should be linked to the 1999 Full Year Consolidated Data File (HC-038) which contains all previously released 1999 person-level data including demographic and socio-economic information.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-054: 1999 and 2000 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 03-DP01","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-044 1999 Supplemental Public Use File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":136,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-056","TITLE":"2001 Jobs File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2003-09-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2001","YEAR":"2001","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file contains jobs-level data from the 2001 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the calendar year 2001. The file contains job-level information collected in Rounds 3-5 for the fifth Panel and Rounds 1-3 for the sixth Panel of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2001); it includes variables pertaining to household-reported jobs, including wages, hours, industry, and occupation.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-072: 2001 and 2002 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-056 2001 Jobs","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":289,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-122","TITLE":"MEPS Panel 12 Longitudinal Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2010-12-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2007-2008","YEAR":"2007-2008","DESCRIPTION":"This file is a two-year longitudinal file derived from the respondents to the MEPS Panel 12 sample. The persons on this data set represent those who were in the MEPS population (U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized) for all or part of the 2007-2008 period. The file contains a longitudinal weight variable (LONGWT), all variables from the 2007 and 2008 consolidated full-year files (HC-113 and HC-121, respectively), and the strata and PSU values from the full year consolidated files and the pooled variance data file (HC-036). The weight variable (LONGWT), when applied to the persons who participated in both 2007 and 2008, will enable the user to make national estimates of person-level changes in selected variables (e.g., health insurance, health status, utilization and expenditures). In addition, LONGWT can be used to develop cross-sectional type estimates for the two-year period and for each year individually based on only the Panel 12 sample.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-122: MEPS Panel 12 Longitudinal Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":232,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-097","TITLE":"2005 Full Year Consolidated Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2007-11-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2005","YEAR":"2005","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) and a SAS transport dataset, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian non-institutionalized population of the United States for calendar year 2005. This file consists of MEPS survey data obtained in Rounds 3, 4, and 5 of Panel 9 and Rounds 1, 2, and 3 of Panel 10 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2005) and consolidates all of the final 2005 person-level variables onto one file. This file contains the following variables previously released on HC-090: survey administration, language of interview variable, demographics, parent identifiers, health status, disability days variables, access to care, employment, quality of care, patient satisfaction, health insurance and use variables. The HC-097 file also includes these variables: income variables and expenditure variables.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-097 2005 Full Year Consolidated Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":212,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-086","TITLE":"MEPS Panel 8 Longitudinal Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2006-10-31T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2003-2004","YEAR":"2003-2004","DESCRIPTION":"This file is a two-year longitudinal file derived from the respondents to the MEPS Panel 8 sample. The persons on this data set represent those who were in the MEPS population (civilian noninstitutionalized) for all or part of the 2003-2004 period. The file contains a longitudinal weight variable (LONGWT) ), all variables from the 2003 and 2004 consolidated full-year files (HC-079 and HC-089, respectively), and the strata and PSU values from the full year consolidated files and the pooled variance data file (HC-036). The weight variable (LONGWT), when applied to the persons who participated in both 2003 and 2004, will enable the user to make national estimates of person-level changes in selected variables (e.g., health insurance, health status, utilization and expenditures). In addition, LONGWT can be used to develop cross-sectional type estimates for the two-year period and for each year individually based on only the Panel 8 sample.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-086 MEPS Panel 8 Longitudinal Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":218,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-090","TITLE":"2005 Full Year Population Characteristics
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This file contains the following variables previously released on HC-107: survey administration, language of interview variable, demographics, parent identifiers, health status, disability days variables, access to care, employment, quality of care, patient satisfaction, health insurance, and use variables. 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This file contains the following variables previously released on HC-082: survey administration, language of interview variable, demographics, parent identifiers, health status, disability days variables, access to care, employment, quality of care, patient satisfaction, health insurance and use variables. The HC-089 file also includes these variables: income variables and expenditure variables.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-089 2004 Full Year Consolidated Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":194,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-079","TITLE":"2003 Full Year Consolidated Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2005-11-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2003","YEAR":"2003","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) and a SAS transport dataset, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian non-institutionalized population of the United States for calendar year 2003. This file consists of MEPS survey data obtained in Rounds 3, 4, and 5 of Panel 7 and Rounds 1, 2, and 3 of Panel 8 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2003) and consolidates all of the final 2003 person-level variables onto one file. This file contains the following variables previously released on HC-073: survey administration, language of interview variable, demographics, parent identifiers, health status, disability days variables, access to care, employment, quality of care, patient satisfaction, health insurance and use variables. The HC-079 file also includes these variables: income variables and expenditure variables.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-079 2003 Full Year Consolidated Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":275,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-116","TITLE":"2008 Jobs File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2010-05-27T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2008","YEAR":"2008","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file contains jobs-level data from the 2008 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS-HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the calendar year 2008. The file contains job-level information collected in Rounds 3-5 for the twelfth Panel and Rounds 1-3 for the thirteenth Panel of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2008); it includes variables pertaining to household-reported jobs, including wages, hours, industry, and occupation.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-116: 2008 Jobs File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":274,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-115","TITLE":"2008 Full Year Population Characteristics
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The 2010 Full-Year expenditure and income data will be forthcoming.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-132: 2010 Full Year Population Characteristics","REPLACEDLINK":"HC-138"},{"ID":271,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-112","TITLE":"2007 Medical Conditions File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2009-11-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2007","YEAR":"2007","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file provides information on household-reported medical conditions collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for the 2007 MEPS Household Component. Released as an ASCII file (with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements, and also in SAS transport format), this public use file provides information on the household-reported medical conditions reported in the 2007 portion of Round 3 and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 11, as well as Rounds 1 and 2 and the 2007 portion of Round 3 for Panel 12 (i.e., rounds for MEPS panels covering calendar year 2007). ICD-9 and Clinical Classification Codes are provided.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-112 2007 Medical Conditions","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":324,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-140","TITLE":"2002-2009 Risk Adjustment Scores File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2013-04-23T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2002-2009","YEAR":"2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file contains the relative risk adjusted scores for Panels 7 through 14 of the 2002-2009 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file contains person-level records with six relative risk scores. Each score is based on one of two modeling frameworks (age/sex or the hierarchical condition categories-HCC) for three different insurance categories (Medicare, privately insured, or Medicaid). 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Released as an ASCII file (with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements, and also in SAS transport format), this public use file provides information on the household-reported medical conditions reported in the 2008 portion of Round 3 and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 12, as well as Rounds 1 and 2 and the 2008 portion of Round 3 for Panel 13 (i.e., rounds for MEPS panels covering calendar year 2008). ICD-9 and Clinical Classification Codes are provided.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-120 2008 Medical Conditions","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":339,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-148","TITLE":"MEPS Panel 15 Longitudinal Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2013-10-31T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2010-2011","YEAR":"2010-2011","DESCRIPTION":"This file is a two-year longitudinal file derived from the respondents to the MEPS Panel 15 sample. The persons on this data set represent those who were in the MEPS population (U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized) for all or part of the 2010-2011 period. The file contains a longitudinal weight variable (LONGWT) and all variables from the 2010 and 2011 full-year consolidated data files (HC-138 and HC-147, respectively). The weight variable (LONGWT), when applied to the persons who participated in both 2010 and 2011, will enable the user to make national estimates of person-level changes in selected variables (e.g., health insurance, health status, utilization and expenditures). In addition, LONGWT can be used to develop cross-sectional type estimates for the two-year period and for each year individually based on only the Panel 15 sample.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-148: MEPS Panel 15 Longitudinal Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":273,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-114","TITLE":"MEPS Panel 11 Longitudinal Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2009-12-29T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2006-2007","YEAR":"2006-2007","DESCRIPTION":"This file is a two-year longitudinal file derived from the respondents to the MEPS Panel 11 sample. The persons on this data set represent those who were in the MEPS population (U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized) for all or part of the 2006-2007 period. The file contains a longitudinal weight variable (LONGWT), all variables from the 2006 and 2007 consolidated full-year files (HC-105 and HC-113, respectively), and the strata and PSU values from the full year consolidated files and the pooled variance data file (HC-036). The weight variable (LONGWT), when applied to the persons who participated in both 2006 and 2007, will enable the user to make national estimates of person-level changes in selected variables (e.g., health insurance, health status, utilization and expenditures). In addition, LONGWT can be used to develop cross-sectional type estimates for the two-year period and for each year individually based on only the Panel 11 sample.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-114: MEPS Panel 11 Longitudinal Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":285,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-119","TITLE":"2008 Person Round Plan File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2010-10-29T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2008","YEAR":"2008","DESCRIPTION":"This MEPS public use release is one in a series of data releases drawn from the 2008 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). This release contains the Person Round Plan (PRPL) file for 2008. This file contains records for persons insured through private establishments providing hospital/physician, medigap, dental, vision or prescription medication coverage and includes variables pertaining to managed care and experiences with plans. These are designed to facilitate research on the sometimes complex and dynamic relationships between consumers and their private insurance. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements, and in SAS Transport format, the PRPL file is not a person-level file and linking it to a MEPS full year person-level file requires users making analytic decisions based on understanding the complexity of the PRPL file.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-119 2008 Person Round Plan File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":358,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-131","TITLE":"2000-2013 Employment Variables File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2016-01-28T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2000-2013","YEAR":"2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013","DESCRIPTION":"This file is a supplemental release of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC) that contains selected employment variables for the years 2000 through 2013. With a few exceptions, the variables in this file are fully-imputed versions of variables from the full-year consolidated public use files (FY PUF). The names of these imputed variables are similar to the names for the corresponding variables in the FY PUFs except that an \"H\" suffix has been added and the resulting name has been shortened to 8 characters when necessary (e.g., the imputed version of SELFCM31 is SLFCM31H).","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-131 2000-2013 Employment Variables File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":335,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-145","TITLE":"2011 Person Round Plan File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2013-09-26T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2011","YEAR":"2011","DESCRIPTION":"This MEPS public use release is one in a series of data releases drawn from the 2011 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). This release contains the Person Round Plan (PRPL) file for 2011. This file contains records for persons insured through private establishments providing hospital/physician, medigap, dental, vision or prescription medication coverage and includes variables pertaining to managed care and experiences with plans. These are designed to facilitate research on the sometimes complex and dynamic relationships between consumers and their private insurance. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements, and in SAS Transport format, the PRPL file is not a person-level file and linking it to a MEPS full year person-level file requires users making analytic decisions based on understanding the complexity of the PRPL file.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-145 2011 Person Round Plan File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":336,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-146","TITLE":"2011 Medical Conditions File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2013-09-26T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2011","YEAR":"2011","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file provides information on household-reported medical conditions collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for the 2011 MEPS Household Component. Released as an ASCII file (with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements, and also in SAS transport format), this public use file provides information on the household-reported medical conditions reported in the 2011 portion of Round 3 and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 15, as well as Rounds 1 and 2 and the 2011 portion of Round 3 for Panel 16 (i.e., rounds for MEPS panels covering calendar year 2011). ICD-9 and Clinical Classification Codes are provided.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-146 2011 Medical Conditions","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":323,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-142","TITLE":"2011 Jobs File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2013-03-22T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2011","YEAR":"2011","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file contains jobs-level data from the 2011 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS-HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and Stata programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the calendar year 2011. The file contains job-level information collected in Rounds 3-5 for the fifteenth Panel and Rounds 1-3 for the sixteenth Panel of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2011); it includes variables pertaining to household-reported jobs, including wages, hours, industry, and occupation.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-142: 2011 Jobs File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":372,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-162","TITLE":"2013 Medical Conditions File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2015-09-24T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2013","YEAR":"2013","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file provides information on household-reported medical conditions collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for the 2013 MEPS Household Component. Released as an ASCII file (with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements, and also in SAS transport format), this public use file provides information on the household-reported medical conditions reported in the 2013 portion of Round 3 and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 17, as well as Rounds 1 and 2 and the 2013 portion of Round 3 for Panel 18 (i.e., rounds for MEPS panels covering calendar year 2013). ICD-9 and Clinical Classification Codes are provided.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-162 2013 Medical Conditions","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":301,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-128","TITLE":"2009 Medical Conditions File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2011-09-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2009","YEAR":"2009","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file provides information on household-reported medical conditions collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for the 2009 MEPS Household Component. Released as an ASCII file (with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements, and also in SAS transport format), this public use file provides information on the household-reported medical conditions reported in the 2009 portion of Round 3 and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 13, as well as Rounds 1 and 2 and the 2009 portion of Round 3 for Panel 14 (i.e., rounds for MEPS panels covering calendar year 2009). ICD-9 and Clinical Classification Codes are provided.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-128 2009 Medical Conditions","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":305,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-130","TITLE":"MEPS Panel 13 Longitudinal Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2011-12-22T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2008-2009","YEAR":"2008-2009","DESCRIPTION":"This file is a two-year longitudinal file derived from the respondents to the MEPS Panel 13 sample. The persons on this data set represent those who were in the MEPS population (U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized) for all or part of the 2008-2009 period. The file contains a longitudinal weight variable (LONGWT), all variables from the 2008 and 2009 consolidated full-year files (HC-121 and HC-129, respectively), and the stratum and PSU values from the full year consolidated files and the pooled variance data file (HC-036). The weight variable (LONGWT), when applied to the persons who participated in both 2008 and 2009, will enable the user to make national estimates of person-level changes in selected variables (e.g., health insurance, health status, utilization and expenditures). In addition, LONGWT can be used to develop cross-sectional type estimates for the two-year period and for each year individually based on only the Panel 13 sample.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-130: MEPS Panel 13 Longitudinal Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":351,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-155","TITLE":"2012 Full Year Consolidated Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2014-09-17T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2012","YEAR":"2012","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) and a SAS transport dataset, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for calendar year 2012. This file consists of MEPS survey data obtained in Rounds 3, 4, and 5 of Panel 16 and Rounds 1, 2, and 3 of Panel 17 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2012) and consolidates all of the final 2012 person-level variables onto one file. This file contains the following variables previously released on HC-149: survey administration, language of interview variable, demographics, parent identifiers, health status, disability days variables, access to care, employment, quality of care, patient satisfaction, health insurance, and use variables. The HC-155 file also includes these variables: income variables and expenditure variables.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-155 2012 Full Year Consolidated Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":341,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-150","TITLE":"2012 Jobs File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2014-03-21T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2012","YEAR":"2012","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file contains jobs-level data from the 2012 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS-HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and Stata programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the calendar year 2012. The file contains job-level information collected in Rounds 3-5 for Panel 16 and Rounds 1-3 for Panel 17 of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2012); it includes variables pertaining to household-reported jobs, including wages, hours, industry, and occupation.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-150: 2012 Jobs File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":319,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-138","TITLE":"2010 Full Year Consolidated Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2012-09-27T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2010","YEAR":"2010","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) and a SAS transport dataset, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for calendar year 2010. This file consists of MEPS survey data obtained in Rounds 3, 4, and 5 of Panel 14 and Rounds 1, 2, and 3 of Panel 15 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2010) and consolidates all of the final 2010 person-level variables onto one file. This file contains the following variables previously released on HC-132: survey administration, language of interview variable, demographics, parent identifiers, health status, disability days variables, access to care, employment, quality of care, patient satisfaction, health insurance, and use variables. The HC-138 file also includes these variables: income variables and expenditure variables.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-138 2010 Full Year Consolidated Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":337,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-147","TITLE":"2011 Full Year Consolidated Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2013-09-26T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2011","YEAR":"2011","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) and a SAS transport dataset, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for calendar year 2011. This file consists of MEPS survey data obtained in Rounds 3, 4, and 5 of Panel 15 and Rounds 1, 2, and 3 of Panel 16 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2011) and consolidates all of the final 2011 person-level variables onto one file. This file contains the following variables previously released on HC-141: survey administration, language of interview variable, demographics, parent identifiers, health status, disability days variables, access to care, employment, quality of care, patient satisfaction, health insurance, and use variables. The HC-147 file also includes these variables: income variables and expenditure variables.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-147 2011 Full Year Consolidated Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":321,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-139","TITLE":"MEPS Panel 14 Longitudinal Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2012-10-26T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2009-2010","YEAR":"2009-2010","DESCRIPTION":"This file is a two-year longitudinal file derived from the respondents to the MEPS Panel 14 sample. The persons on this data set represent those who were in the MEPS population (U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized) for all or part of the 2009-2010 period. The file contains a longitudinal weight variable (LONGWT), all variables from the 2009 and 2010 consolidated full-year files (HC-129 and HC-138, respectively), and the stratum and PSU values from the full year consolidated files. The weight variable (LONGWT), when applied to the persons who participated in both 2009 and 2010, will enable the user to make national estimates of person-level changes in selected variables (e.g., health insurance, health status, utilization and expenditures). In addition, LONGWT can be used to develop cross-sectional type estimates for the two-year period and for each year individually based on only the Panel 14 sample.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-139: MEPS Panel 14 Longitudinal Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":322,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-141","TITLE":"2011 Full Year Population Characteristics
(HC-141 replaced by HC-147)","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2013-02-28T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2011","YEAR":"2011","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) and a SAS transport dataset, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian non-institutionalized population of the United States for calendar year 2011. This file consists of MEPS survey data obtained in Rounds 3, 4, and 5 of Panel 15 and Rounds 1, 2, and 3 of Panel 16 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2011) and contains variables pertaining to survey administration, demographics, employment, health status, quality of care, patient satisfaction, health insurance and person-level medical care use counts. The 2011 Full-Year expenditure and income data will be forthcoming.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-141: 2011 Full Year Population Characteristics","REPLACEDLINK":"HC-147"},{"ID":317,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-136","TITLE":"2010 Person Round Plan File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2012-09-27T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2010","YEAR":"2010","DESCRIPTION":"This MEPS public use release is one in a series of data releases drawn from the 2010 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). This release contains the Person Round Plan (PRPL) file for 2010. This file contains records for persons insured through private establishments providing hospital/physician, medigap, dental, vision or prescription medication coverage and includes variables pertaining to managed care and experiences with plans. These are designed to facilitate research on the sometimes complex and dynamic relationships between consumers and their private insurance. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements, and in SAS Transport format, the PRPL file is not a person-level file and linking it to a MEPS full year person-level file requires users making analytic decisions based on understanding the complexity of the PRPL file.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-136 2010 Person Round Plan File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":318,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-137","TITLE":"2010 Medical Conditions File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2012-09-27T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2010","YEAR":"2010","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file provides information on household-reported medical conditions collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for the 2010 MEPS Household Component. Released as an ASCII file (with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements, and also in SAS transport format), this public use file provides information on the household-reported medical conditions reported in the 2010 portion of Round 3 and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 14, as well as Rounds 1 and 2 and the 2010 portion of Round 3 for Panel 15 (i.e., rounds for MEPS panels covering calendar year 2010). ICD-9 and Clinical Classification Codes are provided.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-137 2010 Medical Conditions","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":453,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-198","TITLE":"2017 Food Security File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2019-07-26T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2017","YEAR":"2017","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file), this public use dataset contains data on 12,715 households who participated in the MEPS Household Component of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey in 2017. These households received a positive family-level weight and were part of one of the two MEPS panels for whom food security data were collected in Round 4 of Panel 21 or Round 2 of Panel 22. The family (RU) level records in this data can be linked to the 2017 Full Year Consolidated Data File to obtain additional data for the families included in this file. For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-198: 2017 Food Security File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":461,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-203","TITLE":"2018 Jobs File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2020-02-28T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2018","YEAR":"2018","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file contains jobs-level data from the 2018 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS-HC). The data are being released both as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements) a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file. This public use file provides information on data collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian non-institutionalized population of the United States during calendar year 2018. This file contains 2018 job-level information collected in Round 3-5 of Panel 22 and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 23 of the MEPS Household Component and contains variables it includes variables pertaining to household-reported jobs, including wages, hours, industry, and occupation.\n

Starting in 2018, instead of the XPORT engine, the CPORT procedure is used to create MEPS Public Use Files (PUFS) \nin transport format (excluding the 2018 Point-in-Time file, HC-036, and HC-036BRR). These CPORT data files \n(.ssp) cannot be read directly into R or Stata at this time. The ASCII (.dat) data file format can be used \ninstead, along with the corresponding instructions found in the 'Programming Statements' files. In addition, \nSAS users must use the CIMPORT procedure to restore the transport files (.ssp) into SAS data sets. For more \ndetails on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the \n MEPS GitHub page\n \"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-203: 2018 Jobs File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":435,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-191","TITLE":"2016 Person Round Plan File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2018-08-24T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2016","YEAR":"2016","DESCRIPTION":"This MEPS public use release is one in a series of data releases drawn from the 2016 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). This release contains the Person Round Plan (PRPL) file for 2016. This file contains records for persons insured through private establishments providing hospital/physician, medigap, dental, vision or prescription medication coverage and includes variables pertaining to managed care and experiences with plans. These are designed to facilitate research on the sometimes complex and dynamic relationships between consumers and their private insurance. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements, and in SAS Transport format, the PRPL file is not a person-level file and linking it to a MEPS full year person-level file requires users making analytic decisions based on understanding the complexity of the PRPL file.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-191: 2016 Person Round Plan File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":359,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-157","TITLE":"2013 Full Year Population Characteristics
(HC-157 replaced by HC-163)","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2015-02-25T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2013","YEAR":"2013","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) and a SAS transport dataset, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian non-institutionalized population of the United States for calendar year 2013. This file consists of MEPS survey data obtained in Rounds 3, 4, and 5 of Panel 17 and Rounds 1, 2, and 3 of Panel 18 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2013) and contains variables pertaining to survey administration, demographics, employment, health status, quality of care, patient satisfaction, health insurance and person-level medical care use counts. The 2013 Full-Year expenditure and income data will be forthcoming.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-157: 2013 Full Year Population Characteristics","REPLACEDLINK":"HC-163"},{"ID":353,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-153","TITLE":"2012 Person Round Plan File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2014-09-19T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2012","YEAR":"2012","DESCRIPTION":"This MEPS public use release is one in a series of data releases drawn from the 2012 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). This release contains the Person Round Plan (PRPL) file for 2012. This file contains records for persons insured through private establishments providing hospital/physician, medigap, dental, vision or prescription medication coverage and includes variables pertaining to managed care and experiences with plans. These are designed to facilitate research on the sometimes complex and dynamic relationships between consumers and their private insurance. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements, and in SAS Transport format, the PRPL file is not a person-level file and linking it to a MEPS full year person-level file requires users making analytic decisions based on understanding the complexity of the PRPL file.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-153 2012 Person Round Plan File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":357,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-156","TITLE":"MEPS Panel 16 Longitudinal Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2014-10-21T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2011-2012","YEAR":"2011-2012","DESCRIPTION":"This file is a two-year longitudinal file derived from the respondents to the MEPS Panel 16 sample. The persons on this data set represent those who were in the MEPS population (U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized) for all or part of the 2011-2012 period. The file contains a longitudinal weight variable (LONGWT) and all variables from the 2011 and 2012 full-year consolidated data files (HC-147 and HC-155, respectively). The weight variable (LONGWT), when applied to the persons who participated in both 2011 and 2012, will enable the user to make national estimates of person-level changes in selected variables (e.g., health insurance, health status, utilization and expenditures). In addition, LONGWT can be used to develop cross-sectional type estimates for the two-year period and for each year individually based on only the Panel 16 sample.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-156: MEPS Panel 16 Longitudinal Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":462,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-204","TITLE":"2018 Full Year Population Characteristics File
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User Note 8/28/2020: Please note the variance estimation strata (VARSTR) and primary sampling units within these strata (VARPSU) for this public use file have not been updated. Point estimates will not be impacted when the VARSTR and VARPSU variables are updated, but standard errors will change. For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-204: 2018 Full Year Population Characteristics","REPLACEDLINK":"HC-209"},{"ID":390,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-170","TITLE":"2014 Medical Conditions File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2016-09-21T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2014","YEAR":"2014","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file provides information on household-reported medical conditions collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for the 2014 MEPS Household Component. Released as an ASCII file (with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements, and also in SAS transport format), this public use file provides information on the household-reported medical conditions reported in the 2014 portion of Round 3 and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 18, as well as Rounds 1 and 2 and the 2014 portion of Round 3 for Panel 19 (i.e., rounds for MEPS panels covering calendar year 2014). ICD-9 and Clinical Classification Codes are provided.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-170 2014 Medical Conditions","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":375,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-164","TITLE":"MEPS Panel 17 Longitudinal Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2015-10-26T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2012-2013","YEAR":"2012-2013","DESCRIPTION":"This file is a two-year longitudinal file derived from the respondents to the MEPS Panel 17 sample. The persons on this data set represent those who were in the MEPS population (U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized) for all or part of the 2012-2013 period. The file contains a longitudinal weight variable (LONGWT) and all variables from the 2012 and 2013 full-year consolidated data files (HC-155 and HC-163, respectively). The weight variable (LONGWT), when applied to the persons who participated in both 2012 and 2013, will enable the user to make national estimates of person-level changes in selected variables (e.g., health insurance, health status, utilization and expenditures). In addition, LONGWT can be used to develop cross-sectional type estimates for the two-year period and for each year individually based on only the Panel 17 sample.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-164: MEPS Panel 17 Longitudinal Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":433,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-192","TITLE":"2016 Full Year Consolidated Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2018-08-17T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2016","YEAR":"2016","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) and a SAS transport dataset, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for calendar year 2016. This file consists of MEPS survey data obtained in Rounds 3, 4, and 5 of Panel 20 and Rounds 1, 2, and 3 of Panel 21 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2016) and consolidates all of the final 2016 person-level variables onto one file. This file contains the following variables previously released on HC-184: survey administration, language of interview variable, demographics, parent identifiers, health status, disability days variables, access to care, employment, quality of care, patient satisfaction, health insurance, and use variables. The HC-192 file also includes these variables: income variables and expenditure variables.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-192: 2016 Full Year Consolidated Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":352,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-154","TITLE":"2012 Medical Conditions File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2014-09-17T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2012","YEAR":"2012","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file provides information on household-reported medical conditions collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for the 2012 MEPS Household Component. Released as an ASCII file (with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements, and also in SAS transport format), this public use file provides information on the household-reported medical conditions reported in the 2012 portion of Round 3 and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 16, as well as Rounds 1 and 2 and the 2012 portion of Round 3 for Panel 17 (i.e., rounds for MEPS panels covering calendar year 2012). ICD-9 and Clinical Classification Codes are provided.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-154 2012 Medical Conditions","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":391,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-169","TITLE":"2014 Person Round Plan File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2016-09-23T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2014","YEAR":"2014","DESCRIPTION":"This MEPS public use release is one in a series of data releases drawn from the 2014 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). This release contains the Person Round Plan (PRPL) file for 2014. This file contains records for persons insured through private establishments providing hospital/physician, medigap, dental, vision or prescription medication coverage and includes variables pertaining to managed care and experiences with plans. These are designed to facilitate research on the sometimes complex and dynamic relationships between consumers and their private insurance. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements, and in SAS Transport format, the PRPL file is not a person-level file and linking it to a MEPS full year person-level file requires users making analytic decisions based on understanding the complexity of the PRPL file.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-169 2014 Person Round Plan File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":360,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-158","TITLE":"2013 Jobs File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2015-03-17T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2013","YEAR":"2013","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file contains jobs-level data from the 2013 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS-HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and Stata programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the calendar year 2013. The file contains job-level information collected in Rounds 3-5 for Panel 17 and Rounds 1-3 for Panel 18 of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2013); it includes variables pertaining to household-reported jobs, including wages, hours, industry, and occupation.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-158: 2013 Jobs File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":432,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-189","TITLE":"2016 Food Security File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2018-07-27T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2016","YEAR":"2016","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) and a SAS transport dataset, this public use dataset contains data on 13,500 households who participated in the MEPS Household Component of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey in 2016. These households received a positive family-level weight and were part of one of the two MEPS panels for whom food security data were collected in Round 4 of Panel 20 or Round 2 of Panel 21. The family (RU) level records in this data can be linked to the 2016 Full Year Consolidated Data File to obtain additional data for the families included in this file.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-189: 2016 Food Security File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":437,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-193","TITLE":"MEPS Panel 20 Longitudinal Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2018-09-28T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2015-2016","YEAR":"2015-2016","DESCRIPTION":"This file is a two-year longitudinal file derived from the respondents to the MEPS Panel 20 sample. The persons on this data set represent those who were in the MEPS population (U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized) for all or part of the 2015-2016 period. 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In addition, LONGWT can be used to develop cross-sectional type estimates for the two-year period and for each year individually based on only the Panel 20 sample.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-193: MEPS Panel 20 Longitudinal Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":389,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-171","TITLE":"2014 Full Year Consolidated Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2016-09-21T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2014","YEAR":"2014","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) and a SAS transport dataset, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for calendar year 2014. This file consists of MEPS survey data obtained in Rounds 3, 4, and 5 of Panel 18 and Rounds 1, 2, and 3 of Panel 19 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2014) and consolidates all of the final 2014 person-level variables onto one file. This file contains the following variables previously released on HC-165: survey administration, language of interview variable, demographics, parent identifiers, health status, disability days variables, access to care, employment, quality of care, patient satisfaction, health insurance, and use variables. The HC-171 file also includes these variables: income variables and expenditure variables.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-171 2014 Full Year Consolidated Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":393,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-172","TITLE":"MEPS Panel 18 Longitudinal Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2016-10-25T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2013-2014","YEAR":"2013-2014","DESCRIPTION":"This file is a two-year longitudinal file derived from the respondents to the MEPS Panel 18 sample. The persons on this data set represent those who were in the MEPS population (U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized) for all or part of the 2013-2014 period. The file contains a longitudinal weight variable (LONGWT) and all variables from the 2013 and 2014 full-year consolidated data files (HC-163 and HC-171, respectively). The weight variable (LONGWT), when applied to the persons who participated in both 2013 and 2014, will enable the user to make national estimates of person-level changes in selected variables (e.g., health insurance, health status, utilization and expenditures). In addition, LONGWT can be used to develop cross-sectional type estimates for the two-year period and for each year individually based on only the Panel 18 sample.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-172: MEPS Panel 18 Longitudinal Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":398,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-174","TITLE":"2015 Full Year Population Characteristics
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The file contains job-level information collected in Rounds 3-5 for Panel 20 and Rounds 1-3 for Panel 21 of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2016); it includes variables pertaining to household-reported jobs, including wages, hours, industry, and occupation.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-185: 2016 Jobs File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":415,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-183","TITLE":"MEPS Panel 19 Longitudinal Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2017-09-29T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2014-2015","YEAR":"2014-2015","DESCRIPTION":"This file is a two-year longitudinal file derived from the respondents to the MEPS Panel 19 sample. The persons on this data set represent those who were in the MEPS population (U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized) for all or part of the 2014-2015 period. The file contains a longitudinal weight variable (LONGWT) and all variables from the 2014 and 2015 full-year consolidated data files (HC-171 and HC-181, respectively). The weight variable (LONGWT), when applied to the persons who participated in both 2014 and 2015, will enable the user to make national estimates of person-level changes in selected variables (e.g., health insurance, health status, utilization and expenditures). In addition, LONGWT can be used to develop cross-sectional type estimates for the two-year period and for each year individually based on only the Panel 19 sample.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-183: MEPS Panel 19 Longitudinal Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":460,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-202","TITLE":"MEPS Panel 21 Longitudinal Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2019-09-06T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2016-2017","YEAR":"2016-2017","DESCRIPTION":"This file is a two-year longitudinal file derived from the respondents to the MEPS Panel 21 sample. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the persons on this data set represent those who were in the MEPS population (U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized) for all or part of the 2016-2017 period. The file contains a longitudinal weight variable (LONGWT) and all variables from the 2016 and 2017 full-year consolidated data files (HC-192 and HC-201, respectively). The weight variable (LONGWT), when applied to the persons who participated in both 2016 and 2017, will enable the user to make national estimates of person-level changes in selected variables (e.g., health insurance, health status, utilization and expenditures). In addition, LONGWT can be used to develop cross-sectional type estimates for the two-year period and for each year individually based on only the Panel 21 sample. For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-202: MEPS Panel 21 Longitudinal Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":379,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-166","TITLE":"2014 Jobs File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2016-03-18T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2014","YEAR":"2014","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file contains jobs-level data from the 2014 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS-HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and Stata programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the calendar year 2014. The file contains job-level information collected in Rounds 3-5 for Panel 18 and Rounds 1-3 for Panel 19 of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2014); it includes variables pertaining to household-reported jobs, including wages, hours, industry, and occupation.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-166: 2014 Jobs File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":442,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-194","TITLE":"2017 Full Year Population Characteristics File
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(HC-055 replaced by HC-060)","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2003-09-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2001","YEAR":"2001","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS and SPSS programming statements) and a SAS transport dataset, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian non-institutionalized population of the United States for calendar year 2001. This file consists of MEPS survey data obtained in Rounds 3, 4, and 5 of Panel 5 and Rounds 1, 2, and 3 of Panel 6 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2001) and contains variables pertaining to survey administration, demographics, employment, health status, quality of care, patient satisfaction, health insurance and person-level medical care use counts.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-055 2001 Full Year Population Characteristics (HC-055 replaced by HC-060)","REPLACEDLINK":"HC-060"},{"ID":173,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-070","TITLE":"2002 Full Year Consolidated Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2004-12-10T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2002","YEAR":"2002","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) and a SAS transport dataset, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian non-institutionalized population of the United States for calendar year 2002. This file consists of MEPS survey data obtained in Rounds 3, 4, and 5 of Panel 6 and Rounds 1, 2, and 3 of Panel 7 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2002) and consolidates all of the final 2002 person-level variables onto one file. This file contains the following variables previously released on HC-062: survey administration, demographics, employment, health status, quality of care, patient satisfaction and health insurance. The HC-070 file also includes these variables: parent identifiers, access to care and disability days variables, language of interview variable, income variables, additional health insurance variables including summary indicators, and use and expenditure variables.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-072: 2001 and 2002 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-070 2002 Full Year Consolidated Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":171,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-065","TITLE":"MEPS Panel 5 Longitudinal Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2004-10-29T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2000-2001","YEAR":"2000-2001","DESCRIPTION":"This file is a two-year longitudinal file derived from the respondents to the MEPS Panel 5 sample. The persons on this data set represent those who were in the MEPS population (civilian noninstitutionalized) for all or part of the 2000-2001 period. The file contains a longitudinal weight variable (LONGWT), all variables from the 2000 and 2001 consolidated full-year files (HC-050 and HC-060, respectively), and the strata and PSU values from the full year consolidated files and the pooled variance data file (HC-036). The weight variable (LONGWT), when applied to the persons who participated in both 2000 and 2001, will enable the user to make national estimates of person-level changes in selected variables (e.g., health insurance, health status, utilization and expenditures). In addition, LONGWT can be used to develop cross-sectional type estimates for the two-year period and for each year individually based on only the Panel 5 sample.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-065 MEPS Panel 5 Longitudinal Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":179,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-073","TITLE":"2003 Full Year Population Characteristics
(HC-073 replaced by HC-079)","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2005-05-31T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2003","YEAR":"2003","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS and SPSS programming statements) and a SAS transport dataset, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian non-institutionalized population of the United States for calendar year 2003. This file consists of MEPS survey data obtained in Rounds 3, 4, and 5 of Panel 7 and Rounds 1, 2, and 3 of Panel 8 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2003) and contains variables pertaining to survey administration, demographics, employment, health status, quality of care, patient satisfaction, health insurance and person-level medical care use counts. The 2003 Full-Year expenditure and income data will be forthcoming.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-073 2003 Full Year Population Characteristics (HC-073 replaced by HC-079)","REPLACEDLINK":"HC-079"},{"ID":161,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-066","TITLE":"2002 Person Round Plan File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2004-08-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2002","YEAR":"2002","DESCRIPTION":"This MEPS public use release is one in a series of data releases drawn from the 2002 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). This release contains the Person Round Plan (PRPL) file for 2002. This file contains records for persons insured through private establishments providing hospital/physician, medigap, dental, vision or prescription medication coverage and includes variables pertaining to managed care and experiences with plans. These are designed to facilitate research on the sometimes complex and dynamic relationships between consumers and their private insurance. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements, and in SAS Transport format, the PRPL file is not a person-level file and linking it to a MEPS full year person-level file (e.g., HC-070 for year 2002) requires users making analytic decisions based on understanding the complexity of the PRPL file.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-072: 2000 and 2001 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-066 2002 Person Round Plan File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":174,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-069","TITLE":"2002 Medical Conditions File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2004-12-17T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2002","YEAR":"2002","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file provides information on household-reported medical conditions collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for the 2002 MEPS Household Component. Released as an ASCII file (with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements, and also in SAS transport format), this public use file provides information on the household-reported medical conditions reported in the 2002 portion of Round 3 and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 6, as well as Rounds 1 and 2 and the 2002 portion of Round 3 for Panel 7 (i.e., rounds for MEPS panels covering calendar year 2002).

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-072: 2001 and 2002 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-069 2002 Medical Conditions","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":229,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-095","TITLE":"2005 Person Round Plan File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2007-10-31T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2005","YEAR":"2005","DESCRIPTION":"This MEPS public use release is one in a series of data releases drawn from the 2005 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). This release contains the Person Round Plan (PRPL) file for 2005. This file contains records for persons insured through private establishments providing hospital/physician, medigap, dental, vision or prescription medication coverage and includes variables pertaining to managed care and experiences with plans. These are designed to facilitate research on the sometimes complex and dynamic relationships between consumers and their private insurance. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements, and in SAS Transport format, the PRPL file is not a person-level file and linking it to a MEPS full year person-level file requires users making analytic decisions based on understanding the complexity of the PRPL file.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-095 2005 Person Round Plan File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":176,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-071","TITLE":"MEPS Panel 6 Longitudinal Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2005-01-31T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2001-2002","YEAR":"2001-2002","DESCRIPTION":"This file is a two-year longitudinal file derived from the respondents to the MEPS Panel 6 sample. The persons on this data set represent those who were in the MEPS population (civilian noninstitutionalized) for all or part of the 2001-2002 period. The file contains a longitudinal weight variable (LONGWT), all variables from the 2001 and 2002 consolidated full-year files (HC-060 and HC-070, respectively), and the strata and PSU values from the full year consolidated files and the pooled variance data file (HC-036). The weight variable (LONGWT), when applied to the persons who participated in both 2001 and 2002, will enable the user to make national estimates of person-level changes in selected variables (e.g., health insurance, health status, utilization and expenditures). In addition, LONGWT can be used to develop cross-sectional type estimates for the two-year period and for each year individually based on only the Panel 6 sample.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-071 MEPS Panel 6 Longitudinal Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":6,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-006R","TITLE":"1996 Medical Conditions File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2000-08-29T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1996","YEAR":"1996","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file contains the revised medical conditions public use data file from the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC). HC-006R replaces the original version of this file (HC-006), released in July 1999. Revisions in the current file include the following:

1) the removal of duplicate pregnancy records and pregnancies that began in 1997;

2) the addition of 26 variables, which provide detail on condition-related health care utilization for persons with priority conditions or conditions caused by an injury;

3) the addition of RXNUM, which identifies the number of prescribed medicine from HC-010A (Prescribed Medicines Public Use File) that are associated with a condition record;

4) the replacement of WTPERF96 with the current full-year person-level weight WTDPER96.

Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information on household-reported medical conditions collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for rounds 1, 2, and 3 of the 1996 MEPS HC. Updated version of the previously released household-reported medical conditions including accidents and injuries, diagnosis and procedure codes.

The data are being released prior to final data cleaning and editing in order to provide the research and policy community prompt access to MEPS data. Analysts should consider these data as preliminary as they have not been subject to the same level of quality control procedures which are usually performed on products of this type.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-014: 1996 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 01-DP05","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-006R 1996 Medical Conditions","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":41,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-025","TITLE":"1998 Jobs File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2001-10-11T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1998","YEAR":"1998","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file contains jobs-level data from the 1998 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the calendar year 1998. The file contains 1998 jobs level information collected in Rounds 3-5 for the second Panel and Rounds 1-3 for the third Panel of the 1998 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), and includes variables pertaining to household-reported jobs, including wages, hours, industry, and occupation.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-030: 1998 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 02-DP02","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-025 1998 Jobs","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":178,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-074","TITLE":"2003 Jobs File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2005-05-31T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2003","YEAR":"2003","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file contains jobs-level data from the 2003 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the calendar year 2003. The file contains job-level information collected in Rounds 3-5 for the seventh Panel and Rounds 1-3 for the eighth Panel of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2003); it includes variables pertaining to household-reported jobs, including wages, hours, industry, and occupation.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-074 2003 Jobs","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":3,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-003","TITLE":"1996 Population Characteristics and Utilization Data
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(HC-004 replaced by HC-012)","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"1999-01-22T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1996","YEAR":"1996","DESCRIPTION":"Replaced by HC-012","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 01-DP05","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-004 1996 Employment Data/Family-Level Weight (HC-004 replaced by HC-012)","REPLACEDLINK":"HC-012"},{"ID":2,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-002","TITLE":"1996 Household Component Round 1 Parent
Identifiers / Round 2 Health Status and Access to Care
(HC-002 replaced by HC-012)","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"1997-10-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1996","YEAR":"1996","DESCRIPTION":"Release 2. Round 1 Parent Identifiers and HMO Data / Round 2 Health Status and Access to Care Data. (HC-002 replaced by HC-012)

The MEPS HC-002 release has been replaced by the MEPS HC-012 release, which consolidates data from the following MEPS 1996 public use releases onto one person-level data file: HC-002, HC-003, HC-004, HC-008 and HC-011.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 01-DP05","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-002 1996 Parent IDs, Health Status, Access to Care (HC-002 replaced by HC-012)","REPLACEDLINK":"HC-012"},{"ID":7,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-007","TITLE":"1996 Jobs File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"1999-11-04T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1996","YEAR":"1996","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file contains the first jobs-level public use data files to be released from the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the calendar year 1996. This file consists of 1996 data obtained in Panels 1 Rounds 1, 2, and 3 of the survey and contains variables pertaining to household-reported jobs, including wages, hours, industry, and occupation.

The data are being released prior to final data cleaning and editing in order to provide the research and policy community prompt access to MEPS data. Analysts should consider these data as preliminary as they have not been subject to the same level of quality control procedures which are usually performed on products of this type.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-014: 1996 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 01-DP05","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-007 1996 Jobs","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":40,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-024","TITLE":"1996 Person Round Plan File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2001-09-05T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1996","YEAR":"1996","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file contains data for each person with private health insurance reported in rounds 1, 2, and 3 of the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the calendar year 1996. The HC-024 file contains records for persons insured through establishments providing hospital/physician, medigap, dental or prescription medication coverage and includes variables pertaining to managed care and satisfaction with plan coverage.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-024 1996 Person Round Plan File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":37,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-021","TITLE":"1998 Full Year Population Characteristics File
(HC-021 replaced by HC-028)","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2001-05-25T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1998","YEAR":"1998","DESCRIPTION":"Replaced by HC-028","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 02-DP02","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-021 1998 Full Year Population Characteristics (HC-021 replaced by HC-028)","REPLACEDLINK":"HC-028"},{"ID":33,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-017","TITLE":"1996 Health Insurance Plan Abstraction Linked Data","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2001-02-12T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1996","YEAR":"1996","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this research file contains information from the Health Insurance Plan Abstraction (HIPA) survey. The HIPA collects and abstracts health insurance plan booklets for all MEPS household respondents who were covered by a private insurance policy at the time of their Round 1 interview for the 1996 MEPS. Health insurance plan abstracts with detailed information on benefits such as deductibles, coinsurance rates, out of pocket maximums, plan maximums, covered services and other plan features are included in this file.

This file contains data that are being released for research purposes only. Significant nonresponse prevents these data from being used to make nationally representative estimates. There is no sampling weight included in this file and users are warned to exercise caution in generalizing their results beyond the sample of persons included in the file. This file is being made available to the research and policy community to provide insights into insurance coverage which are comparable to case studies.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-014: 1996 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 01-DP05","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-017 1996 Health Insurance Plans","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":34,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-018","TITLE":"1997 Medical Conditions File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2001-05-31T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1997","YEAR":"1997","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file provides information on household-reported medical conditions collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for the 1997 MEPS Household Component. Released as an ASCII file (with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements, and also in SAS transport format), this public use file provides information on the household-reported medical conditions reported in the 1997 portion of Round 3 and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 1, as well as Rounds 1 and 2 and the 1997 portion of Round 3 for Panel 2 (i.e., rounds for MEPS panels covering calendar year 1997).

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-029: 1997 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 01-DP07","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-018 1997 Medical Conditions","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":36,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-020","TITLE":"1997 Full Year Consolidated Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2001-05-10T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1997","YEAR":"1997","DESCRIPTION":"This file consists of data obtained in Rounds 3, 4 and 5 of Panel 1 and Rounds 1, 2 and 3 of Panel 2 (i.e., the rounds covering calendar year 1997) and consolidates all of the final 1997 person-level variables onto one file. This file contains the following variables previously released on HC-015: survey administration, demographics, employment, health status, health insurance, and income. This file also contains a revised full-year person level weight, use and expenditure variables, summary yearly health insurance variables, and additional health status variables.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-029: 1997 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 01-DP07","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-020 1997 Full Year Consolidated Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":20,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-012","TITLE":"1996 Full Year Consolidated Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2001-03-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1996","YEAR":"1996","DESCRIPTION":"The following statistics were derived from this data:

Nearly 18% of the population had no usual source of health care in 1996. Approximately 12% of all American families experienced barriers to receiving needed health care services.

77.5% of children with a usual source of health care had at least one ambulatory visit compared to 43.3% of children who lacked a usual source of health care in 1996.

Persons under the age of 65 years with either public or private insurance coverage were more likely to receive ambulatory care than their uninsured counterparts.

Indicative of higher health care utilization rates during the last months of life, the mean number of ambulatory visits for persons who died is about two and a half (2 1/2) times higher than the rest of the population.

Only 43.2% of the population received dental care in 1996.

This file consists of data obtained in Rounds 1, 2 and 3 of the survey (i.e., covering calendar year 1996) and consolidates all of the final 1996 person-level variables onto one file. This file contains the following variables previously released on MEPS public use files HC-002, -003, -004, -008 and -011 as well as on the October 2000 version of HC-012: survey administration; demographic and family relationship; income and tax filing; employment; health insurance; month-by-month poverty variables, health status and access to care; utilization, expenditures and source of payment; and weight and variance estimation variables. For variables that have been updated since their initial release, only the final version has been included on the HC-012 file. This file also contains updated prescribed drug and total expenditure data and summary yearly health insurance variables.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-014: 1996 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 01-DP05","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-012 1996 Full Year Consolidated Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":151,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-057","TITLE":"2001 Person Round Plan File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2004-04-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2001","YEAR":"2001","DESCRIPTION":"This MEPS public use release is one in a series of data releases drawn from the 2001 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). This release contains the Person Round Plan (PRPL) file for 2001. This file contains records for persons insured through establishments providing hospital/physician, medigap, dental or prescription medication coverage and includes variables pertaining to managed care and satisfaction with plan coverage. These are designed to facilitate research on the sometimes complex and dynamic relationships between consumers and their private insurance. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements, and in SAS Transport format, the PRPL file is not a person-level file and linking it to a MEPS full year person-level file (e.g., HC-060 for year 2001) requires users making analytic decisions based on understanding the complexity of the PRPL file.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-072: 2000 and 2001 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-057 2001 Person Round Plan File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":8,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-008","TITLE":"1996 Full Year Population Characteristics
(HC-008 replaced by HC-012)","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"1999-12-22T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1996","YEAR":"1996","DESCRIPTION":"Replaced by HC-012","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 01-DP05","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-008 1996 Full Year Population Characteristics (HC-008 replaced by HC-012)","REPLACEDLINK":"HC-012"},{"ID":23,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-015","TITLE":"1997 Full Year Population Characteristics
(HC-015 replaced by HC-020)","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2001-01-02T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1997","YEAR":"1997","DESCRIPTION":"Replaced by HC-020","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 01-DP07","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-015 1997 Full Year Population Characteristics (HC-015 replaced by HC-020)","REPLACEDLINK":"HC-020"},{"ID":39,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-023","TITLE":"MEPS Panel 1 Longitudinal Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2001-07-23T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1996-1997","YEAR":"1996-1997","DESCRIPTION":"This file is a two-year longitudinal file derived from the respondents to the MEPS Panel 1 sample. The persons on this data set represent those who were in the MEPS population (civilian noninstitutionalized) for all or part of the 1996-1997 period. The file contains a longitudinal weight variable (LONGWT), all variables from the 1996 and 1997 consolidated full-year files (HC-012 and HC-020, respectively), and the strata and PSU values from the full year consolidated files and the pooled variance data file (HC-036). The weight variable (LONGWT), when applied to the persons who participated in both 1996 and 1997, will enable the user to make national estimates of person-level changes in selected variables (e.g., health insurance, health status, utilization and expenditures). In addition, LONGWT can be used to develop cross-sectional type estimates for the two-year period and for each year individually based on only the Panel 1 sample.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 01-DP07","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-023 MEPS Panel 1 Longitudinal Weight","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":35,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-019","TITLE":"1997 Jobs File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2001-02-15T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1997","YEAR":"1997","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file contains jobs-level data from the 1997 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the calendar year 1997. The file contains 1997 jobs level information collected in Rounds 3-5 for the first Panel and Rounds 1-3 for the second Panel of the 1997 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), and includes variables pertaining to household-reported jobs, including wages, hours, industry, and occupation.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-029: 1997 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 01-DP07","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-019 1997 Jobs","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":238,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-100","TITLE":"2006 Jobs File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2008-05-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2006","YEAR":"2006","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file contains jobs-level data from the 2006 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS-HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the calendar year 2006. The file contains job-level information collected in Rounds 3-5 for the tenth Panel and Rounds 1-3 for the eleventh Panel of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2006); it includes variables pertaining to household-reported jobs, including wages, hours, industry, and occupation.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-100 2006 Jobs File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":19,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-011","TITLE":"1996 Person Level Expenditure File
(HC-011 replaced by HC-012)","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2000-07-18T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1996","YEAR":"1996","DESCRIPTION":"Replaced by HC-012","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 01-DP05","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-011 1996 Person Level Expenditure (HC-011 replaced by HC-012)","REPLACEDLINK":"HC-012"},{"ID":237,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-099","TITLE":"2006 Full Year Population Characteristics
(HC-099 replaced by HC-105)","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2008-05-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2006","YEAR":"2006","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS and SPSS programming statements) and a SAS transport dataset, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian non-institutionalized population of the United States for calendar year 2006. This file consists of MEPS survey data obtained in Rounds 3, 4, and 5 of Panel 10 and Rounds 1, 2, and 3 of Panel 11 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2006) and contains variables pertaining to survey administration, demographics, employment, health status, quality of care, patient satisfaction, health insurance and person-level medical care use counts. The 2006 Full-Year expenditure and income data will be forthcoming.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-099 2006 Full Year Population Characteristics (HC-099 replaced by HC-105)","REPLACEDLINK":"HC-105"},{"ID":150,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-060","TITLE":"2001 Full Year Consolidated Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2004-04-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2001","YEAR":"2001","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) and a SAS transport dataset, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian non-institutionalized population of the United States for calendar year 2001. This file consists of MEPS survey data obtained in Rounds 3, 4, and 5 of Panel 5 and Rounds 1, 2, and 3 of Panel 6 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2001) and consolidates all of the final 2001 person-level variables onto one file. This file contains the following variables previously released on HC-055: survey administration, demographics, employment, health status, quality of care, patient satisfaction and health insurance. The HC-060 file also includes these variables: parent identifiers, access to care and disability days variables, language of interview variable, income variables, additional health insurance variables including summary indicators, and use and expenditure variables.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-072: 2001 and 2002 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-060 2001 Full Year Consolidated Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":235,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-098","TITLE":"MEPS Panel 9 Longitudinal Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2008-02-29T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2004-2005","YEAR":"2004-2005","DESCRIPTION":"This file is a two-year longitudinal file derived from the respondents to the MEPS Panel 9 sample. The persons on this data set represent those who were in the MEPS population (civilian noninstitutionalized) for all or part of the 2004-2005 period. The file contains a longitudinal weight variable (LONGWT), all variables from the 2004 and 2005 consolidated full-year files (HC-089 and HC-097, respectively), and the strata and PSU values from the full year consolidated files and the pooled variance data file (HC-036). The weight variable (LONGWT), when applied to the persons who participated in both 2004 and 2005, will enable the user to make national estimates of person-level changes in selected variables (e.g., health insurance, health status, utilization and expenditures). In addition, LONGWT can be used to develop cross-sectional type estimates for the two-year period and for each year individually based on only the Panel 9 sample.\r\n","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-098: MEPS Panel 9 Longitudinal Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":68,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-027","TITLE":"1998 Medical Conditions File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2001-12-11T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1998","YEAR":"1998","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file provides information on household-reported medical conditions collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for the 1998 MEPS Household Component. Released as an ASCII file (with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements, and also in SAS transport format), this public use file provides information on the household-reported medical conditions reported in the 1998 portion of Round 3 and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 2, as well as Rounds 1 and 2 and the 1998 portion of Round 3 for Panel 3 (i.e., rounds for MEPS panels covering calendar year 1998).

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-030: 1998 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 02-DP02","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-027 1998 Medical Conditions","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":94,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-037","TITLE":"1999 Medical Conditions File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2002-10-31T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1999","YEAR":"1999","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file provides information on household-reported medical conditions collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for the 1999 MEPS Household Component. Released as an ASCII file (with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements, and also in SAS transport format), this public use file provides information on the household-reported medical conditions reported in the 1999 portion of Round 3 and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 3, as well as Rounds 1 and 2 and the 1999 portion of Round 3 for Panel 4 (i.e., rounds for MEPS panels covering calendar year 1999).

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-054: 1999 and 2000 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 03-DP01","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-037 1999 Medical Conditions","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":75,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-031","TITLE":"1999 Full Year Population Characteristics
(HC-031 replaced by HC-038)","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2002-02-08T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1999","YEAR":"1999","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS programming statements) and a SAS transport dataset, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian non-institutionalized population of the United States for calendar year 1999. This file consists of MEPS survey data obtained in Rounds 2, 3, 4, and 5 of Panel 3 and Rounds 1, 2, and 3 of Panel 4 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 1999) and contains variables pertaining to survey administration, demographics, employment, health status, health insurance and person-level medical care use counts.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-031 1999 Full Year Population Characteristics (HC-031 replaced by HC-038)","REPLACEDLINK":"HC-038"},{"ID":198,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-083","TITLE":"2004 Jobs File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2006-05-31T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2004","YEAR":"2004","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file contains jobs-level data from the 2004 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the calendar year 2004. The file contains job-level information collected in Rounds 3-5 for the eighth Panel and Rounds 1-3 for the ninth Panel of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2004); it includes variables pertaining to household-reported jobs, including wages, hours, industry, and occupation.\r\n\r\n","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-083 2004 Jobs","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":96,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-039","TITLE":"2000 Full Year Population Characteristics File
(HC-039 replaced by HC-050)","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2002-11-27T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2000","YEAR":"2000","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS programming statements) and a SAS transport dataset, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian non-institutionalized population of the United States for calendar year 2000. This file consists of MEPS survey data obtained in Rounds 3, 4, and 5 of Panel 4 and Rounds 1, 2, and 3 of Panel 5 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2000) and contains variables pertaining to survey administration, demographics, employment, health status, quality of care, patient satisfaction, health insurance and person-level medical care use counts.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-039 2000 Full Year Population Characteristics (HC-039 replaced by HC-050)","REPLACEDLINK":"HC-050"},{"ID":93,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-038","TITLE":"1999 Full Year Consolidated Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2002-10-02T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1999","YEAR":"1999","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) and a SAS transport dataset, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian non-institutionalized population of the United States for calendar year 1999. This file consists of MEPS survey data obtained in Rounds 2, 3, 4, and 5 of Panel 3 and Rounds 1, 2, and 3 of Panel 4 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 1999) and consolidates all of the final 1999 person-level variables onto one file. This file contains the following variables previously released on HC-031: survey administration, demographics, employment, health status and health insurance. The HC-038 file also includes these variables: parent identifiers, access to care and disability days variables, language of interview variable, income variables, use and expenditure variables, and summary yearly health insurance variables.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-054: 1999 and 2000 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 03-DP01","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-038 1999 Full Year Consolidated Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":85,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-035","TITLE":"MEPS Panel 2 Longitudinal Data File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2002-05-22T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1997-1998","YEAR":"1997-1998","DESCRIPTION":"This file is a two-year longitudinal file derived from the respondents to the MEPS Panel 2 sample. The persons on this data set represent those who were in the MEPS population (civilian noninstitutionalized) for all or part of the 1997-1998 period. The file contains a longitudinal weight variable (LONGWT), all variables from the 1997 and 1998 consolidated full-year files (HC-020 and HC-028, respectively), and the strata and PSU values from the full year consolidated files and the pooled variance data file (HC-036). The weight variable (LONGWT), when applied to the persons who participated in both 1997 and 1998, will enable the user to make national estimates of person-level changes in selected variables (e.g., health insurance, health status, utilization and expenditures). In addition, LONGWT can be used to develop cross-sectional type estimates for the two-year period and for each year individually based on only the Panel 2 sample.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-035 MEPS Panel 2 Longitudinal Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":291,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-124","TITLE":"2009 Jobs File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2011-04-29T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2009","YEAR":"2009","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file contains jobs-level data from the 2009 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS-HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the calendar year 2009. The file contains job-level information collected in Rounds 3-5 for the thirteenth Panel and Rounds 1-3 for the fourteenth Panel of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2009); it includes variables pertaining to household-reported jobs, including wages, hours, industry, and occupation.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-124: 2009 Jobs File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":99,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-043","TITLE":"1998 Supplemental Public Use File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2002-12-23T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1998","YEAR":"1998","DESCRIPTION":"This data release, MEPS HC-043, is intended to supplement MEPS variables previously released for 1998, and contains two data files. File 1 of HC-043 is a person-level file, containing health insurance, disability, access to care and language of interview variables. In order to use these variables, this file should be linked to the 1998 Full Year Consolidated Data File (HC-028) which contains all previously released 1998 person-level data including demographic and socio-economic information. Please refer to the HC-028 documentation for further information. File 2 of HC-043 is an event-level file, containing a variable (SEETLKPV) provided to supplement the variables in the 1998 event-level Outpatient Department Visits File (HC-026F). Please refer to the HC-026F documentation for further information.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-043 1998 Supplemental Public Use File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":77,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-032","TITLE":"1999 Jobs File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2002-04-15T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1999","YEAR":"1999","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file contains jobs-level data from the 1999 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the calendar year 1999. The file contains job-level information collected in Rounds 2-5 for the third Panel and Rounds 1-3 for the fourth Panel of the 1999 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 1999); it includes variables pertaining to household-reported jobs, including wages, hours, industry, and occupation.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-054: 1999 and 2000 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 03-DP01","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-032 1999 Jobs","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":257,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-107","TITLE":"2007 Full Year Population Characteristics
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In addition, LONGWT can be used to develop cross-sectional type estimates for the two-year period and for each year individually based on only the Panel 10 sample.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-106: MEPS Panel 10 Longitudinal Data File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":251,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-104","TITLE":"2006 Medical Conditions File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2008-11-25T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2006","YEAR":"2006","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file provides information on household-reported medical conditions collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for the 2006 MEPS Household Component. 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This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-072: 2001 and 2002 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-061 2001 Medical Conditions","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":217,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-091","TITLE":"2005 Jobs File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2007-05-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2005","YEAR":"2005","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file contains jobs-level data from the 2005 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the calendar year 2005. The file contains job-level information collected in Rounds 3-5 for the ninth Panel and Rounds 1-3 for the tenth Panel of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2005); it includes variables pertaining to household-reported jobs, including wages, hours, industry, and occupation.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-091 2005 Jobs","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":97,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-040","TITLE":"2000 Jobs File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2002-11-27T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2000","YEAR":"2000","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file contains jobs-level data from the 2000 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the calendar year 2000. The file contains job-level information collected in Rounds 3-5 for the fourth Panel and Rounds 1-3 for the fifth Panel of the 2000 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2000); it includes variables pertaining to household-reported jobs, including wages, hours, industry, and occupation.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-054: 1999 and 2000 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 03-DP01","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-040 2000 Jobs","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":197,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-082","TITLE":"2004 Full Year Population Characteristics
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This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-072: 2001 and 2002 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-063 2002 Jobs","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":192,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-078","TITLE":"2003 Medical Conditions File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2005-11-18T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2003","YEAR":"2003","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file provides information on household-reported medical conditions collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for the 2003 MEPS Household Component. Released as an ASCII file (with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements, and also in SAS transport format), this public use file provides information on the household-reported medical conditions reported in the 2003 portion of Round 3 and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 7, as well as Rounds 1 and 2 and the 2003 portion of Round 3 for Panel 8 (i.e., rounds for MEPS panels covering calendar year 2003).","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-078 2003 Medical Conditions","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":236,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-092","TITLE":"1996-2004 Risk Adjustment Scores File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2008-04-28T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1996-2004","YEAR":"1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file contains the relative risk adjusted scores for Panels 1 through 9 of the 1996-2004 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file contains person-level records with six relative risk scores. Each score is based on one of two modeling frameworks (age/sex or the hierarchical condition categories-HCC) for three different insurance categories (Medicare, privately insured, or Medicaid).","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-092 1996-2004 Risk Adjustment Scores File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":112,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-042","TITLE":"1997 Supplemental Public Use File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2003-09-10T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1997","YEAR":"1997","DESCRIPTION":"This data release, MEPS HC-042, is intended to supplement MEPS variables previously released for 1997, and contains three data files. File 1 of HC-042 is a person-level file, containing health insurance, disability, access to care, language of interview, long-term care, alternative care, preventive care and child care arrangement variables. In order to use these variables, this file should be linked to the 1997 Full Year Consolidated Data File (HC-020) which contains all previously released 1997 person-level data including demographic and socio-economic information. Please refer to the HC-020 documentation for further information. File 2 of HC-042 is an event-level file, containing a variable (SEETLKPV) provided to supplement the variables in the 1997 event-level Outpatient Department Visits File (HC-016F). Please refer to the HC-016F documentation for further information. File 3 of HC-042 contains data from the MEPS Caregiver (CG) supplement, which for individuals in MEPS with certain limitations, collected information on: 1) care provided by other household members; and 2) individuals (outside of the household) who could potentially provide assistance. The unit of analysis of File 3 is the MEPS person-potential caregiver.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-042 1997 Supplemental Public Use File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":131,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-052","TITLE":"2000 Medical Conditions File","DATATYPECODE":1,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Full Year File","RELEASEDATE":"2003-06-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2000","YEAR":"2000","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file provides information on household-reported medical conditions collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for the 2000 MEPS Household Component. Released as an ASCII file (with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements, and also in SAS transport format), this public use file provides information on the household-reported medical conditions reported in the 2000 portion of Round 3 and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 4, as well as Rounds 1 and 2 and the 2000 portion of Round 3 for Panel 5 (i.e., rounds for MEPS panels covering calendar year 2000). This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-054: 1999 and 2000 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 03-DP01","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-052 2000 Medical Conditions","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":290,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-123","TITLE":"2009 Full Year Population Characteristics
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This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-072: 2001 and 2002 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-067H 2002 Home Health","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":163,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-067B","TITLE":"2002 Dental Visits","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2004-09-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2002","YEAR":"2002","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2002 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Dental Visits File provides detailed information on dental events for a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the 2002 calendar year. This file consists of 2002 data obtained in the 2002 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 6, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2002 portion of round 3 for Panel 7 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2002), and contains variables pertaining to household reported dental visits. The file includes the date of the dental event, type of provider seen, if the visit was due to an accident, reason for the dental event, and whether or not medicines were prescribed.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-072: 2001 and 2002 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-067B 2002 Dental Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":164,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-067C","TITLE":"2002 Other Medical Expenses","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2004-09-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2002","YEAR":"2002","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2002 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information on the purchase of and expenditures for medical equipment, supplies, glasses and other medical items for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilization and expenditures associated with medical items during the 2002 calendar year. This file consists of 2002 data obtained in the 2002 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 6, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2002 portion of round 3 for Panel 7 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2002).

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-072: 2001 and 2002 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-067C 2002 Other Medical Expenses","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":226,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-094G","TITLE":"2005 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2007-09-28T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2005","YEAR":"2005","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2005 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Medical Provider Visits File provides detailed information on office-based medical provider visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of office-based medical provider utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2005. Each record represents one household-reported office-based medical provider visit reported during the 2005 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 9, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2005 portion of round 3 for Panel 10 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2005). The Office-Based Provider Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the office-based visit, such as, date of the visit, time spent with the provider, types of treatment and services received, types of medicine prescribed, condition codes, expenditures, source of payment associated with the visit and imputed expenditure variables.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-094G 2005 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":170,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-067G","TITLE":"2002 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2004-10-29T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2002","YEAR":"2002","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2002 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Medical Provider Visits File provides detailed information on office-based medical provider visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of office-based medical provider utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2002. Each record represents one household-reported office-based medical provider visit reported during the 2002 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 6, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2002 portion of round 3 for Panel 7 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2002). The Office-Based Provider Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the office-based visit, such as, date of the visit, time spent with the provider, types of treatment and services received, types of medicine prescribed, condition codes, expenditures, source of payment associated with the visit and imputed expenditure variables.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-072: 2001 and 2002 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-067G 2002 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":42,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-026B","TITLE":"1998 Dental Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2001-09-28T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1998","YEAR":"1998","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 1998 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Dental Visits File provides detailed information on dental events for a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the 1998 calendar year. This file consists of 1998 data obtained in the 1998 portion of round 3, and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 2, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 1998 portion of round 3 for Panel 3 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 1998), and contains variables pertaining to household-reported dental visits. The file includes the date of the dental event, type of provider seen, if the visit was due to an accident, reason for the dental event, and whether or not medicines were prescribed.

The Dental Visits Public Use Data File consists of 2 event-level data files. File 1 contains characteristics associated with the dental event and imputed expenditure data. File 2 contains pre-imputed expenditure data.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-030: 1998 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 02-DP02","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-026B 1998 Dental Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":184,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-077C","TITLE":"2003 Other Medical Expenses File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2005-08-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2003","YEAR":"2003","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2003 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information on the purchase of and expenditures for medical equipment, supplies, glasses and other medical items for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilization and expenditures associated with medical items during the 2003 calendar year. This file consists of 2003 data obtained in the 2003 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 7, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2003 portion of round 3 for Panel 8 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2003).","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-077C 2003 Other Medical Expenses","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":185,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-077B","TITLE":"2003 Dental Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2005-08-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2003","YEAR":"2003","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2003 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Dental Visits File provides detailed information on dental events for a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the 2003 calendar year. This file consists of 2003 data obtained in the 2003 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 7, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2003 portion of round 3 for Panel 8 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2003), and contains variables pertaining to household reported dental visits. The file includes the date of the dental event, type of provider seen, if the visit was due to an accident, reason for the dental event, and whether or not medicines were prescribed.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-077B 2003 Dental Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":193,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-077I","TITLE":"Appendix to MEPS 2003 Event Files","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2005-11-18T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2003","YEAR":"2003","DESCRIPTION":"This public use release is one in a series of public use event files drawn from the 2003 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household (HC) and Medical Provider Components (MPC). This release contains 2 data files each of which is provided as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and as a SAS transport file. File 1 is used for linking the MEPS 2003 condition file (HC-078) with the MEPS 2003 event files (HC-077A through HC-077H); File 2 is used for linking the MEPS 2003 prescribed medicines event file (HC-077A) with other 2003 event files.

This release also includes two tables provided as PDF files: Table 1, the \"MEPS 2003 Condition-Event Frequency\" table contains unweighted and weighted counts of records on the MEPS 2003 event files for each of the condition, procedure and clinical classification codes on the MEPS 2003 condition file; Table 2, the \"MEPS 2003 Utilization and Expenditures Summary\" table contains statistics for all of the utilization and expenditure variables contained on the MEPS 2003 person-level and event-level files.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-077I Appendix to MEPS 2003 Event Files","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":175,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-067I","TITLE":"Appendix to MEPS 2002 Event Files","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2004-12-17T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2002","YEAR":"2002","DESCRIPTION":"This public use release is one in a series of public use event files drawn from the 2002 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household (HC) and Medical Provider Components (MPC). This release contains 2 data files each of which is provided as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and as a SAS transport file. File 1 is used for linking the MEPS 2002 condition file (HC-069) with the MEPS 2002 event files (HC-067A through HC-067H); File 2 is used for linking the MEPS 2002 prescribed medicines event file (HC-067A) with other 2002 event files.

This release also includes two tables provided as PDF files: Table 1, the \"MEPS 2002 Condition-Event Frequency\" table contains unweighted and weighted counts of records on the MEPS 2002 event files for each of the condition, procedure and clinical classification codes on the MEPS 2002 condition file; Table 2, the \"MEPS 2002 Utilization and Expenditures Summary\" table contains statistics for all of the utilization and expenditure variables contained on the MEPS 2002 person-level and event-level files.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-072: 2001 and 2002 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-067I Appendix to MEPS 2002 Event Files","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":209,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-085G","TITLE":"2004 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2006-09-29T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2004","YEAR":"2004","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2004 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Medical Provider Visits File provides detailed information on office-based medical provider visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of office-based medical provider utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2004. Each record represents one household-reported office-based medical provider visit reported during the 2004 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 8, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2004 portion of round 3 for Panel 9 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2004). The Office-Based Provider Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the office-based visit, such as, date of the visit, time spent with the provider, types of treatment and services received, types of medicine prescribed, condition codes, expenditures, source of payment associated with the visit and imputed expenditure variables.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-085G 2004 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits\r\n\r\n","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":169,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-067F","TITLE":"2002 Outpatient Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2004-10-29T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2002","YEAR":"2002","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2002 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC) and the Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Outpatient Visits File provides detailed information on outpatient visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of outpatient utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2002. Each record represents one, household-reported, outpatient visit reported during the 2002 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 6, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2002 portion of round 3 for Panel 7 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2002). The Outpatient Visits Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the outpatient visit and imputed expenditure data such as the date of the visit, whether or not a doctor was seen, type of care received, type of services provided, expenditures and sources of payment, and imputed sources of payment.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-072: 2001 and 2002 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-067F 2002 Outpatient Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":242,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-102C","TITLE":"2006 Other Medical Expenses","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2008-08-29T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2006","YEAR":"2006","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2006 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information on the purchase of and expenditures for medical equipment, supplies, glasses and other medical items for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilization and expenditures associated with medical items during the 2006 calendar year. This file consists of 2006 data obtained in the 2006 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 10, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2006 portion of round 3 for Panel 11 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2006).","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-102C 2006 Other Medical Expenses","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":168,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-067E","TITLE":"2002 Emergency Room Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2004-10-29T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2002","YEAR":"2002","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2002 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC) and the Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Emergency Room Visits File provides detailed information on emergency room visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of emergency room utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2002. Each record represents one, household-reported, emergency room visit reported during the 2002 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 6, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2002 portion of round 3 for Panel 7 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2002). The Emergency Room Visits Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the emergency room visit, such as, the date of the visit, types of care and services received, types of medicine prescribed during the visit, condition codes, expenditures, and source of payment associated with the visit, and imputed expenditure variables.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-072: 2001 and 2002 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-067E 2002 Emergency Room Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":43,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-026C","TITLE":"1998 Other Medical Expenses File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2001-10-04T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1998","YEAR":"1998","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 1998 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information on the purchase of and expenditures for medical equipment, supplies, glasses and other medical items for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilization and expenditures associated with medical items during the 1998 calendar year. This file consists of 1998 data obtained in the 1998 portion of round 3, and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 2, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 1998 portion of round 3 for Panel 3 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 1998). The Other Medical Expense Public Use Data File consists of 2 event-level data files. File 1 contains characteristics associated with the medical expense and imputed expenditure data. File 2 contains pre-imputed expenditure data.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-030: 1998 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 02-DP02","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-026C 1998 Other Medical Expenses","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":183,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-077H","TITLE":"2003 Home Health File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2005-08-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2003","YEAR":"2003","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2003 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Household-reported information on expenditures for home health visits including the type of provider, type of services received, length of the visit, reason for the visit, expenditures, and sources of payment. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information on home health care for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilization and expenditures associated with home health care during the 2003 calendar year. This file consists of 2003 data obtained in the 2003 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 7, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2003 portion of round 3 for Panel 8 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2003).","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-077H 2003 Home Health","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":25,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-016B","TITLE":"1997 Dental Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2001-06-06T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1997","YEAR":"1997","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 1997 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Dental Visits File provides detailed information on dental events for a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the 1997 calendar year. This file consists of 1997 data obtained in the 1997 portion of round 3, and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 1, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 1997 portion of round 3 for Panel 2 of the survey and contains variables pertaining to household reported dental visits.

The file includes the date of the dental event, type of provider seen, if the visit was due to an accident, reason for the dental event, number of condition(s) and procedure(s) associated with the dental event, and whether or not medicines were prescribed.

The Dental Visits Public Use Data File consists of 2 event-level data files. File 1 contains characteristics associated with the dental event and imputed expenditure data. File 2 contains pre-imputed expenditure data.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-029: 1997 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 01-DP07","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-016B 1997 Dental Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":26,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-016C","TITLE":"1997 Other Medical Expenses File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2001-01-24T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1997","YEAR":"1997","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 1997 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information on the purchase of and expenditures for medical equipment, supplies, glasses and other medical items for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilization and expenditures associated with medical items during the 1997 calendar year. This file consists of 1997 data obtained in the 1997 portion of round 3, and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 1, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 1997 portion of round 3 for Panel 2 of the survey.

The Other Medical Expense Public Use Data File consists of 2 event-level data files. File 1 contains characteristics associated with the medical expense and imputed expenditure data. File 2 contains pre-imputed expenditure data.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-029: 1997 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 01-DP07","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-016C 1997 Other Medical Expenses","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":186,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-077D","TITLE":"2003 Hospital Inpatient Stays File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2005-09-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2003","YEAR":"2003","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2003 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC) and the Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Hospital Inpatient Stays File provides detailed information on hospital inpatient stays. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of inpatient hospital stay utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2003. Each record represents one, household-reported, inpatient hospital stay reported during the 2003 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 7, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2003 portion of round 3 for Panel 8 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2003).

The Hospital Inpatient Stays Public Use Data File is an event-level data file containing characteristics associated with the hospital inpatient stay event such as: the date of the hospital inpatient stay, reason for the stay, types of services received, condition(s) and procedure(s) associated with the hospital inpatient stay, whether or not medicines were prescribed and imputed expenditure data.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-077D 2003 Hospital Inpatient Stays","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":30,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-016G","TITLE":"1997 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2001-02-28T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1997","YEAR":"1997","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 1997 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Medical Provider Visits File provides detailed information on office-based medical provider visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of office-based medical provider utilization and expenditures for calendar year 1997. Each record represents one household-reported office-based medical provider visit reported during the 1997 portion of round 3, and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 1, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 1997 portion of round 3 for Panel 2 of the survey.

The Office-Based Provider Public Use Data File consists of two event-level data files. File 1 contains characteristics associated with the office-based visit, such as, date of the visit, time spent with the provider, types of treatment and services received, types of medicine prescribed, condition codes, expenditures, source of payment associated with the visit and imputed expenditure variables. File 2 contains unimputed expenditure variables and is intended for analysts who want to perform their own imputations to handle missing data.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-029: 1997 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 01-DP07","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-016G 1997 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":28,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-016E","TITLE":"1997 Emergency Room Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2001-11-06T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1997","YEAR":"1997","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 1997 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC) and the Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Emergency Room Visits File provides detailed information on emergency room visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of emergency room utilization and expenditures for calendar year 1997. Each record represents one, household-reported, emergency room visit reported during the 1997 portion of round 3, and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 1, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 1997 portion of round 3 for Panel 2 of the survey.

The Emergency Room Visits Public Use Data File consists of two event-level data files. File 1 contains characteristics associated with the emergency room visit, such as, the date of the visit, types of care and services received, types of medicine prescribed during the visit, condition codes, expenditures, and source of payment associated with the visit, and imputed expenditure variables. File 2 contains pre-imputed and unimputed expenditure variables drawn from both the Household and Medical Provider Components for all emergency room visits on File 1.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-029: 1997 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 01-DP07","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-016E 1997 Emergency Room Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":211,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-085A","TITLE":"2004 Prescribed Medicines File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2006-10-31T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2004","YEAR":"2004","DESCRIPTION":"\nThis file is one in a series of public use event files from the 2004 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC) and Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII data file and SAS transport file (with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) this public use file provides detailed information on household-reported prescribed medicines for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of prescribed medicine utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2004. Each record represents one household-reported prescribed medicine that was purchased during calendar year 2004. These data were collected during the 2004 portion of Round 3 and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 8, as well as Rounds 1, 2 and the 2004 portion of Round 3 for Panel 9 of the MEPS HC. Each record on this event file represents a unique prescribed medicine event; that is, a prescribed medicine reported as being purchased or otherwise obtained by the household respondent, and includes the following: an identifier for each unique prescribed medicine; detailed characteristics associated with the event (e.g., national drug code (NDC), medicine name, etc.); selected Multum Lexicon variables; conditions, if any, associated with the medicine; the date on which the person first used the medicine; total expenditure and sources of payments; types of pharmacies that filled the household's prescriptions; and a full-year person level weight.

⚠ A problem was discovered with the linking between the MEPS Prescribed Medicines files and the Cerner Multum file that resulted in some incorrect therapeutic classes being assigned. The Multum Lexicon Addendum files (HC-068) contain the corrected therapeutic classes. Analysts should use caution when using the Cerner Multum therapeutic class variables for analysis and should always check for accuracy, because the Multum classification has been changed by the addition of new classes and subclasses, and by changes in the hierarchy of classes. See the documentation for the Multum Lexicon Addendum files for examples.

The Multum Lexicon Addendum files (HC-068) also contain an additional variable not in the 1996 through 2012 MEPS Prescribed Medicines files: the generic name of the drug most commonly used by prescribing physicians.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-085A 2004 Prescribed Medicines","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":32,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-016I","TITLE":"Appendix to MEPS 1997 Event Files","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2001-06-07T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1997","YEAR":"1997","DESCRIPTION":"This public use release is one in a series of public use event files drawn from the 1997 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household (HC) and Medical Provider Components (MPC). This release contains 2 data files each of which is provided as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and as a SAS transport file. File 1 is used for linking the MEPS condition file with the MEPS event files; File 2 is used for linking the MEPS prescribed medicines event file with other event files.

This release also includes two tables provided as PDF files: Table 1, the \"MEPS 1997 Condition-Event Frequency\" table contains unweighted and weighted counts of records on the MEPS 1997 event files for each of the condition, procedure and clinical classification codes on the MEPS 1997 condition file; Table 2, the \"MEPS 1997 Utilization and Expenditures Summary\" table contains statistics for all of the utilization and expenditure variables contained on the MEPS 1997 person-level and event-level files.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-029: 1997 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 01-DP07","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-016I Appendix to MEPS 1997 Event Files","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":14,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-010E","TITLE":"1996 Emergency Room Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2000-07-28T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1996","YEAR":"1996","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC) and the Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Emergency Room Visits File provides detailed information on emergency room visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of emergency room utilization and expenditures for calendar year 1996. Each record represents one, household-reported, emergency room visit reported during Rounds 1, 2, and 3. Emergency room visits reported in Round 3 and known to have begun after December 31, 1996, are not included on this file.

The Emergency Room Visits Public Use Data File consists of two event-level data files. File 1 contains characteristics associated with the emergency room visit, such as, the date of the visit, types of care and services received, types of medicine prescribed during the visit, condition codes, expenditures, and source of payment associated with the visit, and imputed expenditure variables. File 2 contains unimputed expenditure variables drawn from both the Household and Medical Provider Components for all emergency room visits on File 1.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-014: 1996 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 01-DP05","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-010E 1996 Emergency Room Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":10,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-010A","TITLE":"1996 Prescribed Medicines File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2000-07-25T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1996","YEAR":"1996","DESCRIPTION":"\nThis public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files from the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC) and the Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Prescribed Medicines File provides detailed information on household-reported prescribed medicines for a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States. This file consists of 1996 data obtained in Panel 1, Rounds 1, 2, and 3 of the survey and contains variables pertaining to household-reported prescribed medicines that were either purchased or obtained during the 1996 calendar year, including the name of prescribed medicine, NDC, quantity, form, strength, unit, expenditures, and diagnoses codes.
For more information, see MEPS HC-014: 1996 MEPS HC Survey Data.

⚠ A problem was discovered with the linking between the MEPS Prescribed Medicines files and the Cerner Multum file that resulted in some incorrect therapeutic classes being assigned. The Multum Lexicon Addendum files (HC-068) contain the corrected therapeutic classes. Analysts should use caution when using the Cerner Multum therapeutic class variables for analysis and should always check for accuracy, because the Multum classification has been changed by the addition of new classes and subclasses, and by changes in the hierarchy of classes. See the documentation for the Multum Lexicon Addendum files for examples.

The Multum Lexicon Addendum files (HC-068) also contain an additional variable not in the 1996 through 2012 MEPS Prescribed Medicines files: the generic name of the drug most commonly used by prescribing physicians.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 01-DP05","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-010A 1996 Prescribed Medicines","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":277,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-118B","TITLE":"2008 Dental Visits","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2010-08-31T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2008","YEAR":"2008","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2008 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Dental Visits File provides detailed information on dental events for a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the 2008 calendar year. This file consists of 2008 data obtained in the 2008 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 12, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2008 portion of round 3 for Panel 13 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2008), and contains variables pertaining to household reported dental visits. The file includes the date of the dental event, type of provider seen, if the visit was due to an accident, reason for the dental event, and whether or not medicines were prescribed.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-118B 2008 Dental Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":227,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-094A","TITLE":"2005 Prescribed Medicines File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2007-10-31T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2005","YEAR":"2005","DESCRIPTION":"\nThis file is one in a series of public use event files from the 2005 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC) and Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides detailed information on household-reported prescribed medicines for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of prescribed medicine utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2005. Each record represents one household-reported prescribed medicine that was purchased during calendar year 2005. These data were collected during the 2005 portion of Round 3 and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 9, as well as Rounds 1, 2 and the 2005 portion of Round 3 for Panel 10 of the MEPS HC. Each record on this event file represents a unique prescribed medicine event; that is, a prescribed medicine reported as being purchased or otherwise obtained by the household respondent, and includes the following: an identifier for each unique prescribed medicine; detailed characteristics associated with the event (e.g., national drug code (NDC), medicine name, etc.); selected Multum Lexicon variables; conditions, if any, associated with the medicine; the date on which the person first used the medicine; total expenditure and sources of payments; types of pharmacies that filled the household's prescriptions; and a full-year person level weight.

⚠ A problem was discovered with the linking between the MEPS Prescribed Medicines files and the Cerner Multum file that resulted in some incorrect therapeutic classes being assigned. The Multum Lexicon Addendum files (HC-068) contain the corrected therapeutic classes. Analysts should use caution when using the Cerner Multum therapeutic class variables for analysis and should always check for accuracy, because the Multum classification has been changed by the addition of new classes and subclasses, and by changes in the hierarchy of classes. See the documentation for the Multum Lexicon Addendum files for examples.

The Multum Lexicon Addendum files (HC-068) also contain an additional variable not in the 1996 through 2012 MEPS Prescribed Medicines files: the generic name of the drug most commonly used by prescribing physicians.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-094A 2005 Prescribed Medicines","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":12,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-010C","TITLE":"1996 Other Medical Expenses File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2000-04-26T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1996","YEAR":"1996","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files released from the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC). Released as an ASCII data file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and as a SAS transport file, this public use file provides information on the purchase of and expenditures for medical equipment, supplies, and other medical items for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilization and expenditures associated with medical items for calendar year 1996.

This public use data set consists of two event-level data files. File 1 contains the type of medical equipment obtained and imputed expenditure variables. File 2 contains pre-imputed expenditure variables.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-014: 1996 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 01-DP05","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-010C 1996 Other Medical Expenses","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":148,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-059D","TITLE":"2001 Hospital Inpatient Stays File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2004-02-27T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2001","YEAR":"2001","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2001 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC) and the Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Hospital Inpatient Stays File provides detailed information on hospital inpatient stays. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of inpatient hospital stay utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2001. Each record represents one, household-reported, inpatient hospital stay reported during the 2001 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 5, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2001 portion of round 3 for Panel 6 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2001). The Hospital Inpatient Stays Public Use Data File is an event-level data file containing characteristics associated with the hospital inpatient stay event such as: the date of the hospital inpatient stay, reason for the stay, types of services received, condition(s) and procedure(s) associated with the hospital inpatient stay, whether or not medicines were prescribed and imputed expenditure data.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-072: 2001 and 2002 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-059D 2001 Hospital Inpatient Stays","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":18,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-010I","TITLE":"Appendix to MEPS 1996 Event Files","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2000-07-17T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1996","YEAR":"1996","DESCRIPTION":"This public use release is one in a series of public use event files drawn from the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household (HC) and Medical Provider Components (MPC). This release contains 2 data files each of which is provided as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and as a SAS transport file. File 1 is used for linking the MEPS condition file with the MEPS event files; File 2 is used for linking the MEPS prescribed medicines event file with other event files.

This release also includes two tables provided as PDF files: Table 1, the \"MEPS 1996 Condition-Event Frequency\" table contains unweighted and weighted counts of records on the MEPS 1996 event files for each of the condition, procedure and clinical classification codes on the MEPS 1996 condition file; Table 2, the \"MEPS 1996 Utilization and Expenditures Summary\" table contains statistics for all of the utilization and expenditure variables contained on the MEPS 1996 person-level and event-level files.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-014: 1996 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 01-DP05","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-010I Appendix to MEPS 1996 Event Files","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":580,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-254D","TITLE":"2024 Hospital Inpatient Stays File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2026-07-13T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2024","YEAR":"2024","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2024 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the Hospital Inpatient Stays File provides detailed information on hospital inpatient stays. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of inpatient hospital stay utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2024. Each record comprises data for one household-reported inpatient hospital stay collected during Rounds 3-5 of Panel 28 and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 29, corresponding to the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2024. The Hospital Inpatient Stays File contains data on several characteristics associated with each hospital inpatient stay, including the start and ends dates for the hospital inpatient stay, the number of nights spent in the hospital, the reason for admittance, whether or not a doctor was seen, types of services received, expenditures, and sources of payment. To append person-level information such as demographic or health insurance coverage to each event record, data from this file can be merged with the 2024 MEPS HC Full-Year Consolidated File using the person identifier, DUPERSID. \n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-254D: 2024 Hospital Inpatient Stays File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":46,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-026F","TITLE":"1998 Outpatient Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2001-10-17T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1998","YEAR":"1998","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 1998 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC) and the Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Outpatient Visits File provides detailed information on outpatient visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of outpatient utilization and expenditures for calendar year 1998. Each record represents one, household-reported, outpatient visit reported during the 1998 portion of round 3, and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 2, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 1998 portion of round 3 for Panel 3 of the survey.

The Outpatient Visits Public Use Data File consists of 2 event-level data files. File 1 contains characteristics associated with the outpatient visit and imputed expenditure data such as the date of the visit, whether or not a doctor was seen, type of care received, type of services provided, expenditures and sources of payment, and imputed sources of payment. File 2 contains pre-imputed expenditure data and is intended for analysts who want to perform their own imputations to handle missing data.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-030: 1998 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 02-DP02","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-026F 1998 Outpatient Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":48,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-026H","TITLE":"1998 Home Health File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2001-10-04T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1998","YEAR":"1998","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 1998 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Household-reported information on expenditures for home health visits including the type of provider, type of services received, length of the visit, reason for the visit, expenditures, and sources of payment. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information on home health care for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilization and expenditures associated with home health care during the 1998 calendar year. This file consists of 1998 data obtained in the 1998 portion of round 3, and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 2, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 1998 portion of round 3 for Panel 3 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 1998).

The Home Health Visits Public Use Data File consists of 2 event-level data files. File 1 contains characteristics associated with the home health care and imputed expenditure data. File 2 contains unimputed expenditure data.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-030: 1998 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 02-DP02","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-026H 1998 Home Health","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":83,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-033C","TITLE":"1999 Other Medical Expenses","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2002-05-22T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1999","YEAR":"1999","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 1999 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information on the purchase of and expenditures for medical equipment, supplies, glasses and other medical items for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilization and expenditures associated with medical items during the 1999 calendar year. This file consists of 1999 data obtained in the 1999 portion of round 3 (round 2 for some cases), and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 3, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 1999 portion of round 3 for Panel 4 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 1999).

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-054: 1999 and 2000 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 03-DP01","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-033C 1999 Other Medical Expenses","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":84,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-033B","TITLE":"1999 Dental Visits","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2002-05-22T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1999","YEAR":"1999","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 1999 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Dental Visits File provides detailed information on dental events for a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the 1999 calendar year. This file consists of 1999 data obtained in the 1999 portion of round 3 (round 2 for some cases), and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 3, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 1999 portion of round 3 for Panel 4 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 1999), and contains variables pertaining to household reported dental visits. The file includes the date of the dental event, type of provider seen, if the visit was due to an accident, reason for the dental event, and whether or not medicines were prescribed.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-054: 1999 and 2000 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 03-DP01","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-033B 1999 Dental Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":146,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-059G","TITLE":"2001 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2004-01-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2001","YEAR":"2001","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2001 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Medical Provider Visits File provides detailed information on office-based medical provider visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of office-based medical provider utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2001. Each record represents one household-reported office-based medical provider visit reported during the 2001 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 5, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2001 portion of round 3 for Panel 6 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2001). The Office-Based Provider Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the office-based visit, such as, date of the visit, time spent with the provider, types of treatment and services received, types of medicine prescribed, condition codes, expenditures, source of payment associated with the visit, and imputed expenditure variables.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-072: 2001 and 2002 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-059G 2001 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":187,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-077E","TITLE":"2003 Emergency Room Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2005-09-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2003","YEAR":"2003","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2003 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC) and the Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Emergency Room Visits File provides detailed information on emergency room visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of emergency room utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2003. Each record represents one, household-reported, emergency room visit reported during the 2003 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 7, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2003 portion of round 3 for Panel 8 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2003).

The Emergency Room Visits Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the emergency room visit, such as, the date of the visit, types of care and services received, types of medicine prescribed during the visit, condition codes, expenditures, and source of payment associated with the visit, and imputed expenditure variables.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-077E 2003 Emergency Room Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":481,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-213C","TITLE":"2019 Other Medical Expenses File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2021-05-28T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2019","YEAR":"2019","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2019 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, this public use file provides information on the purchase of and expenditures for visual aids, medical equipment, supplies, and other medical items for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilization and expenditures associated with medical items during the 2019 calendar year. This file consists of MEPS survey data obtained in the 2019 portion of Round 3, and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 23, as well as Rounds 1, 2, and the 2019 portion of Round 3 for Panel 24 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2019). Each other medical expense record includes the following: type of medical item obtained, imputed sources of payment, total payment and total charge for the medical item, and a full-year person-level weight. For more \ndetails on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the \n MEPS GitHub page\n \"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-213C: 2019 Other Medical Expenses File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":82,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-033H","TITLE":"1999 Home Health File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2002-05-22T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1999","YEAR":"1999","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 1999 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Household-reported information on expenditures for home health visits including the type of provider, type of services received, length of the visit, reason for the visit, expenditures, and sources of payment. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information on home health care for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilization and expenditures associated with home health care during the 1999 calendar year. This file consists of 1999 data obtained in the 1999 portion of round 3 (and round 2 for some cases), and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 3, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 1999 portion of round 3 for Panel 4 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 1999).

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-054: 1999 and 2000 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 03-DP01","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-033H 1999 Home Health","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":124,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-051D","TITLE":"2000 Hospital Inpatient Stays File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2003-04-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2000","YEAR":"2000","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2000 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC) and the Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Hospital Inpatient Stays File provides detailed information on hospital inpatient stays. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of inpatient hospital stay utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2000. Each record represents one, household-reported, inpatient hospital stay reported during the 2000 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 4, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2000 portion of round 3 for Panel 5 of the survey.

The Hospital Inpatient Stays Public Use Data File is an event-level data file containing characteristics associated with the hospital inpatient stay event such as: the date of the hospital inpatient stay, reason for the stay, types of services received, condition(s) and procedure(s) associated with the hospital inpatient stay, whether or not medicines were prescribed and imputed expenditure data.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-054: 1999 and 2000 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 03-DP01","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-051D 2000 Hospital Inpatient Stays","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":261,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-110B","TITLE":"2007 Dental Visits","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2009-08-31T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2007","YEAR":"2007","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2007 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Dental Visits File provides detailed information on dental events for a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the 2007 calendar year. This file consists of 2007 data obtained in the 2007 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 11, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2007 portion of round 3 for Panel 12 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2007), and contains variables pertaining to household reported dental visits. The file includes the date of the dental event, type of provider seen, if the visit was due to an accident, reason for the dental event, and whether or not medicines were prescribed.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-110B 2007 Dental Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":145,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-059F","TITLE":"2001 Outpatient Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2004-01-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2001","YEAR":"2001","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2001 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC) and the Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Outpatient Visits File provides detailed information on outpatient visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of outpatient utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2001. Each record represents one, household-reported, outpatient visit reported during the 2001 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 5, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2001 portion of round 3 for Panel 6 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2001). The Outpatient Visits Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the outpatient visit and imputed expenditure data such as the date of the visit, whether or not a doctor was seen, type of care received, type of services provided, expenditures, sources of payment, and imputed sources of payment.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-072: 2001 and 2002 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-059F 2001 Outpatient Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":228,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-094D","TITLE":"2005 Hospital Inpatient Stays File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2007-10-31T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2005","YEAR":"2005","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2005 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Hospital Inpatient Stays File provides detailed information on hospital inpatient stays. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of inpatient hospital stay utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2005. Each record represents one, household-reported, inpatient hospital stay reported during the 2005 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 9, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2005 portion of round 3 for Panel 10 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2005). The Hospital Inpatient Stays Public Use Data File is an event-level data file containing characteristics associated with the hospital inpatient stay event such as: the date of the hospital inpatient stay, reason for the stay, types of services received, condition(s) and procedure(s) associated with the hospital inpatient stay, whether or not medicines were prescribed and imputed expenditure data.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-094D 2005 Hospital Inpatient Stays","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":74,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-026I","TITLE":"Appendix to MEPS 1998 Event Files","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2001-12-12T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1998","YEAR":"1998","DESCRIPTION":"This public use release is one in a series of public use event files drawn from the 1998 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household (HC) and Medical Provider Components (MPC). This release contains 2 data files each of which is provided as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and as a SAS transport file. File 1 is used for linking the MEPS condition file with the MEPS event files; File 2 is used for linking the MEPS prescribed medicines event file with other event files.

This release also includes two tables provided as PDF files: Table 1, the \"MEPS 1998 Condition-Event Frequency\" table contains unweighted and weighted counts of records on the MEPS 1998 event files for each of the condition, procedure and clinical classification codes on the MEPS 1998 condition file; Table 2, the \"MEPS 1998 Utilization and Expenditures Summary\" table contains statistics for all of the utilization and expenditure variables contained on the MEPS 1998 person-level and event-level files.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-030: 1998 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 02-DP02","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-026I Appendix to MEPS 1998 Event Files","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":144,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-059E","TITLE":"2001 Emergency Room Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2004-01-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2001","YEAR":"2001","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2001 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC) and the Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Emergency Room Visits File provides detailed information on emergency room visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of emergency room utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2001. Each record represents one, household-reported, emergency room visit reported during the 2001 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 5, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2001 portion of round 3 for Panel 6 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2001). The Emergency Room Visits Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the emergency room visit, such as, the date of the visit, types of care and services received, types of medicine prescribed during the visit, condition codes, expenditures, sources of payment associated with the visit, and imputed expenditure variables.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-072: 2001 and 2002 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-059E 2001 Emergency Room Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":116,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-051G","TITLE":"2000 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2003-03-31T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2000","YEAR":"2000","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2000 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Medical Provider Visits File provides detailed information on office-based medical provider visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of office-based medical provider utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2000. Each record represents one household-reported office-based medical provider visit reported during the 2000 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 4, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2000 portion of round 3 for Panel 5 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2000).

The Office-Based Provider Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the office-based visit, such as, date of the visit, time spent with the provider, types of treatment and services received, types of medicine prescribed, condition codes, expenditures, source of payment associated with the visit and imputed expenditure variables.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-054: 1999 and 2000 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 03-DP01","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-051G 2000 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":152,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-059I","TITLE":"Appendix to MEPS 2001 Event Files","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2004-04-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2001","YEAR":"2001","DESCRIPTION":"This public use release is one in a series of public use event files drawn from the 2001 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household (HC) and Medical Provider Components (MPC). This release contains 2 data files each of which is provided as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and as a SAS transport file. File 1 is used for linking the MEPS 2001 condition file (HC-061) with the MEPS 2001 event files (HC-059A through HC-059H); File 2 is used for linking the MEPS 2001 prescribed medicines event file (HC-059A) with other 2001 event files.

This release also includes two tables provided as PDF files: Table 1, the \"MEPS 2001 Condition-Event Frequency\" table contains unweighted and weighted counts of records on the MEPS 2001 event files for each of the condition, procedure and clinical classification codes on the MEPS 2001 condition file; Table 2, the \"MEPS 2001 Utilization and Expenditures Summary\" table contains statistics for all of the utilization and expenditure variables contained on the MEPS 2001 person-level and event-level files.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-072: 2001 and 2002 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-059I Appendix to MEPS 2001 Event Files","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":117,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-051F","TITLE":"2000 Outpatient Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2003-03-31T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2000","YEAR":"2000","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2000 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC) and the Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Outpatient Visits File provides detailed information on outpatient visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of outpatient utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2000. Each record represents one, household-reported, outpatient visit reported during the 2000 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 4, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2000 portion of round 3 for Panel 5 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2000).

The Outpatient Visits Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the outpatient visit and imputed expenditure data such as the date of the visit, whether or not a doctor was seen, type of care received, type of services provided, expenditures and sources of payment , and imputed sources of payment.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-054: 1999 and 2000 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 03-DP01","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-051F 2000 Outpatient Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":142,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-059C","TITLE":"2001 Other Medical Expenses","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2003-12-24T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2001","YEAR":"2001","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2001 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information on the purchase of and expenditures for medical equipment, supplies, glasses and other medical items for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilization and expenditures associated with medical items during the 2001 calendar year. This file consists of 2001 data obtained in the 2001 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 5, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2001 portion of round 3 for Panel 6 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2001).

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-072: 2001 and 2002 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-059C 2001 Other Medical Expenses","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":95,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-033I","TITLE":"Appendix to MEPS 1999 Event Files","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2002-10-31T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1999","YEAR":"1999","DESCRIPTION":"This public use release is one in a series of public use event files drawn from the 1999 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household (HC) and Medical Provider Components (MPC). This release contains 2 data files each of which is provided as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and as a SAS transport file. File 1 is used for linking the MEPS 1999 condition file (HC-037) with the MEPS 1999 event files (HC-033A through HC-033H); File 2 is used for linking the MEPS 1999 prescribed medicines event file with other 1999 event files.

This release also includes two tables provided as PDF files: Table 1, the \"MEPS 1999 Condition-Event Frequency\" table contains unweighted and weighted counts of records on the MEPS 1999 event files for each of the condition, procedure and clinical classification codes on the MEPS 1999 condition file; Table 2, the \"MEPS 1999 Utilization and Expenditures Summary\" table contains statistics for all of the utilization and expenditure variables contained on the MEPS 1999 person-level and event-level files.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-054: 1999 and 2000 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 03-DP01","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-033I Appendix to MEPS 1999 Event Files","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":204,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-085H","TITLE":"2004 Home Health File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2006-08-31T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2004","YEAR":"2004","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2004 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Household-reported information on expenditures for home health visits including the type of provider, type of services received, length of the visit, reason for the visit, expenditures, and sources of payment. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information on home health care for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilization and expenditures associated with home health care during the 2004 calendar year. This file consists of 2004 data obtained in the 2004 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 8, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2004 portion of round 3 for Panel 9 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2004).","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-085H 2004 Home Health","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":118,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-051E","TITLE":"2000 Emergency Room Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2003-03-31T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2000","YEAR":"2000","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2000 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC) and the Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Emergency Room Visits File provides detailed information on emergency room visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of emergency room utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2000. Each record represents one, household-reported, emergency room visit reported during the 2000 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 4, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2000 portion of round 3 for Panel 5 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2000).

The Emergency Room Visits Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the emergency room visit, such as, the date of the visit, types of care and services received, types of medicine prescribed during the visit, condition codes, expenditures, and source of payment associated with the visit, and imputed expenditure variables.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-054: 1999 and 2000 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 03-DP01","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-051E 2000 Emergency Room Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":141,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-059B","TITLE":"2001 Dental Visits","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2003-12-24T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2001","YEAR":"2001","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2001 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Dental Visits File provides detailed information on dental events for a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the 2001 calendar year. This file consists of 2001 data obtained in the 2001 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 5, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2001 portion of round 3 for Panel 6 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2001), and contains variables pertaining to household reported dental visits. The file includes the date of the dental event, type of provider seen, if the visit was due to an accident, reason for the dental event, and whether or not medicines were prescribed.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-072: 2001 and 2002 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-059B 2001 Dental Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":114,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-051C","TITLE":"2000 Other Medical Expenses File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2003-02-28T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2000","YEAR":"2000","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2000 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information on the purchase of and expenditures for medical equipment, supplies, glasses and other medical items for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilization and expenditures associated with medical items during the 2000 calendar year. This file consists of 2000 data obtained in the 2000 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 4, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2000 portion of round 3 for Panel 5 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2000).

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-054: 1999 and 2000 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 03-DP01","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-051C 2000 Other Medical Expenses","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":207,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-085E","TITLE":"2004 Emergency Room Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2006-09-29T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2004","YEAR":"2004","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2004 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Emergency Room Visits File provides detailed information on emergency room visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of emergency room utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2004. Each record represents one, household-reported, emergency room visit reported during the 2004 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 8, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2004 portion of round 3 for Panel 9 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2004). The Emergency Room Visits Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the emergency room visit, such as, the date of the visit, types of care and services received, types of medicine prescribed during the visit, condition codes, expenditures, and source of payment associated with the visit, and imputed expenditure variables.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-085E 2004 Emergency Room Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":327,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-144C","TITLE":"2011 Other Medical Expenses File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2013-06-28T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2011","YEAR":"2011","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2011 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information on the purchase of and expenditures for medical equipment, supplies, glasses and other medical items for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilization and expenditures associated with medical items during the 2011 calendar year. This file consists of 2011 data obtained in the 2011 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 15, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2011 portion of round 3 for Panel 16 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2011).","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-144C 2011 Other Medical Expenses File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":328,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-144H","TITLE":"2011 Home Health File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2013-06-28T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2011","YEAR":"2011","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2011 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). The Home Health File contains household-reported information on home health visits including the type of provider, type of services received, length of the visit, reason for the visit, expenditures, and sources of payment. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information on home health care for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilizations and expenditures associated with home health care during the 2011 calendar year. 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Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information on home health care for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilization and expenditures associated with home health care during the 2000 calendar year. This file consists of 2000 data obtained in the 2000 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 4, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2000 portion of round 3 for Panel 5 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2000).

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-054: 1999 and 2000 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 03-DP01","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-051H 2000 Home Health","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":241,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-102B","TITLE":"2006 Dental Visits","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2008-08-29T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2006","YEAR":"2006","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2006 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Dental Visits File provides detailed information on dental events for a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the 2006 calendar year. This file consists of 2006 data obtained in the 2006 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 10, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2006 portion of round 3 for Panel 11 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2006), and contains variables pertaining to household reported dental visits. The file includes the date of the dental event, type of provider seen, if the visit was due to an accident, reason for the dental event, and whether or not medicines were prescribed.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-102B 2006 Dental Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":326,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-144B","TITLE":"2011 Dental Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2013-06-28T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2011","YEAR":"2011","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2011 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Dental Visits File provides detailed information on dental events for a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the 2011 calendar year. This file consists of 2011 data obtained in the 2011 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 15, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2011 portion of round 3 for Panel 16 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2011), and contains variables pertaining to household reported dental visits. The file includes the date of the dental event, type of provider seen, if the visit was due to an accident, reason for the dental event, and whether or not medicines were prescribed.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-144B 2011 Dental Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":216,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-085I","TITLE":"Appendix to MEPS 2004 Event Files","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2006-11-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2004","YEAR":"2004","DESCRIPTION":"This public use release is one in a series of public use event files drawn from the 2004 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household (HC) and Medical Provider Components (MPC). This release contains 2 data files each of which is provided as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and as a SAS transport file. File 1 is used for linking the MEPS 2004 condition file (HC-087) with the MEPS 2004 event files (HC-085A through HC-085H); File 2 is used for linking the MEPS 2004 prescribed medicines event file (HC-085A) with other 2004 event files. This release also includes two tables provided as PDF files: Table 1, the \"MEPS 2004 Condition-Event Frequency\" table contains unweighted and weighted counts of records on the MEPS 2004 event files for each of the condition, procedure and clinical classification codes on the MEPS 2004 condition file; Table 2, the \"MEPS 2004 Utilization and Expenditures Summary\" table contains statistics for all of the utilization and expenditure variables contained on the MEPS 2004 person-level and event-level files.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-085I Appendix to MEPS 2004 Event Files","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":206,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-085D","TITLE":"2004 Hospital Inpatient Stays File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2006-09-29T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2004","YEAR":"2004","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2004 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Hospital Inpatient Stays File provides detailed information on hospital inpatient stays. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of inpatient hospital stay utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2004. Each record represents one, household-reported, inpatient hospital stay reported during the 2004 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 8, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2004 portion of round 3 for Panel 9 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2004). The Hospital Inpatient Stays Public Use Data File is an event-level data file containing characteristics associated with the hospital inpatient stay event such as: the date of the hospital inpatient stay, reason for the stay, types of services received, condition(s) and procedure(s) associated with the hospital inpatient stay, whether or not medicines were prescribed and imputed expenditure data.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-085D 2004 Hospital Inpatient Stays","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":262,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-110C","TITLE":"2007 Other Medical Expenses","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2009-08-31T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2007","YEAR":"2007","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2007 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information on the purchase of and expenditures for medical equipment, supplies, glasses and other medical items for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilization and expenditures associated with medical items during the 2007 calendar year. This file consists of 2007 data obtained in the 2007 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 11, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2007 portion of round 3 for Panel 12 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2007).","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-110C 2007 Other Medical Expenses","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":230,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-094I","TITLE":"Appendix to MEPS 2005 Event Files","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2007-11-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2005","YEAR":"2005","DESCRIPTION":"This public use release is one in a series of public use event files drawn from the 2005 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household (HC) and Medical Provider Components (MPC). This release contains 2 data files each of which is provided as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and as a SAS transport file. File 1 is used for linking the MEPS 2005 condition file (HC-096) with the MEPS 2005 event files (HC-094A through HC-094H); File 2 is used for linking the MEPS 2005 prescribed medicines event file (HC-095A) with other 2005 event files. This release also includes two tables provided as PDF files: Table 1, the \"MEPS 2005 Condition-Event Frequency\" table contains unweighted and weighted counts of records on the MEPS 2005 event files for each of the condition, procedure and clinical classification codes on the MEPS 2005 condition file; Table 2, the \"MEPS 2005 Utilization and Expenditures Summary\" table contains statistics for all of the utilization and expenditure variables contained on the MEPS 2005 person-level and event-level files.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-094I Appendix to MEPS 2005 Event Files","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":222,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-094C","TITLE":"2005 Other Medical Expenses","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2007-08-31T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2005","YEAR":"2005","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2005 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information on the purchase of and expenditures for medical equipment, supplies, glasses and other medical items for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilization and expenditures associated with medical items during the 2005 calendar year. This file consists of 2005 data obtained in the 2005 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 9, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2005 portion of round 3 for Panel 9 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2005).","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-094C 2005 Other Medical Expenses","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":132,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-051I","TITLE":"Appendix to MEPS 2000 Event Files","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2003-06-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2000","YEAR":"2000","DESCRIPTION":"This public use release is one in a series of public use event files drawn from the 2000 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household (HC) and Medical Provider Components (MPC). This release contains 2 data files each of which is provided as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and as a SAS transport file. File 1 is used for linking the MEPS 2000 condition file (HC-052) with the MEPS 2000 event files (HC-051A through HC-051H); File 2 is used for linking the MEPS 2000 prescribed medicines event file (HC-051A) with other 2000 event files.

This release also includes two tables provided as PDF files: Table 1, the \"MEPS 2000 Condition-Event Frequency\" table contains unweighted and weighted counts of records on the MEPS 2000 event files for each of the condition, procedure and clinical classification codes on the MEPS 2000 condition file; Table 2, the \"MEPS 2000 Utilization and Expenditures Summary\" table contains statistics for all of the utilization and expenditure variables contained on the MEPS 2000 person-level and event-level files.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-054: 1999 and 2000 MEPS HC Survey Data.\r\n","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 03-DP01","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-051I Appendix to MEPS 2000 Event Files","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":189,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-077G","TITLE":"2003 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2005-09-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2003","YEAR":"2003","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2003 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Medical Provider Visits File provides detailed information on office-based medical provider visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of office-based medical provider utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2003. Each record represents one household-reported office-based medical provider visit reported during the 2003 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 7, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2003 portion of round 3 for Panel 8 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2003).

The Office-Based Provider Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the office-based visit, such as, date of the visit, time spent with the provider, types of treatment and services received, types of medicine prescribed, condition codes, expenditures, source of payment associated with the visit and imputed expenditure variables.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-077G 2003 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":113,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-051B","TITLE":"2000 Dental Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2003-02-28T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2000","YEAR":"2000","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2000 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Dental Visits File provides detailed information on dental events for a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the 2000 calendar year. This file consists of 2000 data obtained in the 2000 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 4, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2000 portion of round 3 for Panel 5 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2000), and contains variables pertaining to household reported dental visits. The file includes the date of the dental event, type of provider seen, if the visit was due to an accident, reason for the dental event, and whether or not medicines were prescribed.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-054: 1999 and 2000 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 03-DP01","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-051B 2000 Dental Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":221,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-094B","TITLE":"2005 Dental Visits","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2007-08-31T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2005","YEAR":"2005","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2005 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Dental Visits File provides detailed information on dental events for a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the 2005 calendar year. This file consists of 2005 data obtained in the 2005 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 9, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2005 portion of round 3 for Panel 10 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2005), and contains variables pertaining to household reported dental visits. The file includes the date of the dental event, type of provider seen, if the visit was due to an accident, reason for the dental event, and whether or not medicines were prescribed.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-094B 2005 Dental Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":224,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-094E","TITLE":"2005 Emergency Room Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2007-09-28T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2005","YEAR":"2005","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2005 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Emergency Room Visits File provides detailed information on emergency room visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of emergency room utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2005. Each record represents one, household-reported, emergency room visit reported during the 2005 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 9, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2005 portion of round 3 for Panel 10 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2005). The Emergency Room Visits Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the emergency room visit, such as, the date of the visit, types of care and services received, types of medicine prescribed during the visit, condition codes, expenditures and source of payment associated with the visit, and imputed expenditure variables.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-094E 2005 Emergency Room Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":225,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-094F","TITLE":"2005 Outpatient Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2007-09-28T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2005","YEAR":"2005","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2005 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Outpatient Visits File provides detailed information on outpatient visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of outpatient utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2005. Each record represents one, household-reported, outpatient visit reported during the 2005 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 9, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2005 portion of round 3 for Panel 10 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2005). The Outpatient Visits Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the outpatient visit and imputed expenditure data such as the date of the visit, whether or not a doctor was seen, type of care received, type of services provided, expenditures and sources of payment, and imputed sources of payment.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-094F 2005 Outpatient Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":330,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-144E","TITLE":"2011 Emergency Room Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2013-07-23T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2011","YEAR":"2011","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2011 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA program statements and in SAS transport format, the Emergency Room Visits File provides detailed information on emergency room visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of emergency room utilizations and expenditures for calendar year 2011. Each record represents one, household-reported, emergency room visit reported during the 2011 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 15, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2011 portion of round 3 for Panel 16 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2011). The Emergency Room Visits Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the emergency room visit, such as, the date of the visit, types of care and services received, types of medicine prescribed during the visit , condition codes , expenditures, and sources of payment associated with the visit.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-144E 2011 Emergency Room Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":203,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-085C","TITLE":"2004 Other Medical Expenses","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2006-08-31T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2004","YEAR":"2004","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2004 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information on the purchase of and expenditures for medical equipment, supplies, glasses and other medical items for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilization and expenditures associated with medical items during the 2004 calendar year. This file consists of 2004 data obtained in the 2004 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 8, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2004 portion of round 3 for Panel 9 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2004).","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-085C 2004 Other Medical Expenses","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":202,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-085B","TITLE":"2004 Dental Visits","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2006-08-31T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2004","YEAR":"2004","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2004 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Dental Visits File provides detailed information on dental events for a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the 2004 calendar year. This file consists of 2004 data obtained in the 2004 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 8, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2004 portion of round 3 for Panel 9 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2004), and contains variables pertaining to household reported dental visits. The file includes the date of the dental event, type of provider seen, if the visit was due to an accident, reason for the dental event, and whether or not medicines were prescribed.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-085B 2004 Dental Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":247,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-102D","TITLE":"2006 Hospital Inpatient Stays File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2008-10-24T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2006","YEAR":"2006","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2006 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Hospital Inpatient Stays File provides detailed information on hospital inpatient stays. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of inpatient hospital stay utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2006. Each record represents one, household-reported, inpatient hospital stay reported during the 2006 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 10, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2006 portion of round 3 for Panel 11 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2006). The Hospital Inpatient Stays Public Use Data File is an event-level data file containing characteristics associated with the hospital inpatient stay event such as: the date of the hospital inpatient stay, reason for the stay, types of services received, condition(s) and procedure(s) associated with the hospital inpatient stay, whether or not medicines were prescribed and imputed expenditure data.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-102D 2006 Hospital Inpatient Stays","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":252,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-102I","TITLE":"Appendix to MEPS 2006 Event Files","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2008-11-25T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2006","YEAR":"2006","DESCRIPTION":"This public use release is one in a series of public use event files drawn from the 2006 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household (HC) and Medical Provider Components (MPC). This release contains 2 data files each of which is provided as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and as a SAS transport file. File 1 is used for linking the MEPS 2006 condition file (HC-104) with the MEPS 2006 event files (HC-102A through HC-102H); File 2 is used for linking the MEPS 2006 prescribed medicines event file (HC-102A) with other 2006 event files. This release also includes two tables provided as PDF files: Table 1, the \"MEPS 2006 Condition-Event Frequency\" table contains unweighted and weighted counts of records on the MEPS 2006 event files for each of the condition, procedure and clinical classification codes on the MEPS 2006 condition file; Table 2, the \"MEPS 2006 Utilization and Expenditures Summary\" table contains statistics for all of the utilization and expenditure variables contained on the MEPS 2006 person-level and event-level files.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-102I Appendix to MEPS 2006 Event Files","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":279,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-118H","TITLE":"2008 Home Health File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2010-08-31T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2008","YEAR":"2008","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2008 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). The Home Health File contains household-reported information on expenditures for home health visits including the type of provider, type of services received, length of the visit, reason for the visit, expenditures, and sources of payment. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information on home health care for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilization and expenditures associated with home health care during the 2008 calendar year. This file consists of 2008 data obtained in the 2008 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 12, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2008 portion of round 3 for Panel 13 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2008).","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-118H 2008 Home Health File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":266,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-110G","TITLE":"2007 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2009-09-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2007","YEAR":"2007","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2007 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Medical Provider Visits File provides detailed information on office-based medical provider visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of office-based medical provider utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2007. Each record represents one household-reported office-based medical provider visit reported during the 2007 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 11, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2007 portion of round 3 for Panel 12 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2007). The Office-Based Provider Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the office-based visit, such as, date of the visit, time spent with the provider, types of treatment and services received, types of medicine prescribed, condition codes, expenditures, source of payment associated with the visit and imputed expenditure variables. \r\n","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-110G 2007 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":188,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-077F","TITLE":"2003 Outpatient Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2005-09-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2003","YEAR":"2003","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2003 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC) and the Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Outpatient Visits File provides detailed information on outpatient visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of outpatient utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2003. Each record represents one, household-reported, outpatient visit reported during the 2003 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 7, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2003 portion of round 3 for Panel 8 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2003).

The Outpatient Visits Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the outpatient visit and imputed expenditure data such as the date of the visit, whether or not a doctor was seen, type of care received, type of services provided, expenditures and sources of payment , and imputed sources of payment.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-077F 2003 Outpatient Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":245,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-102G","TITLE":"2006 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2008-09-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2006","YEAR":"2006","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2006 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Medical Provider Visits File provides detailed information on office-based medical provider visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of office-based medical provider utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2006. Each record represents one household-reported office-based medical provider visit reported during the 2006 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 10, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2006 portion of round 3 for Panel 11 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2006). The Office-Based Provider Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the office-based visit, such as, date of the visit, time spent with the provider, types of treatment and services received, types of medicine prescribed, condition codes, expenditures, source of payment associated with the visit and imputed expenditure variables.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-102G 2006 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":246,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-102F","TITLE":"2006 Outpatient Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2008-09-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2006","YEAR":"2006","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2006 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Outpatient Visits File provides detailed information on outpatient visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of outpatient utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2006. Each record represents one, household-reported, outpatient visit reported during the 2006 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 10, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2006 portion of round 3 for Panel 11 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2006). The Outpatient Visits Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the outpatient visit and imputed expenditure data such as the date of the visit, whether or not a doctor was seen, type of care received, type of services provided, expenditures and sources of payment, and imputed sources of payment.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-102F 2006 Outpatient Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":243,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-102H","TITLE":"2006 Home Health File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2008-08-29T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2006","YEAR":"2006","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2006 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). The Home Health File contains household-reported information on expenditures for home health visits including the type of provider, type of services received, length of the visit, reason for the visit, expenditures, and sources of payment. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information on home health care for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilization and expenditures associated with home health care during the 2006 calendar year. This file consists of 2006 data obtained in the 2006 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 10, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2006 portion of round 3 for Panel 11 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2006).","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-102H 2006 Home Health","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":270,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-110I","TITLE":"Appendix to MEPS 2007 Event Files","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2009-11-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2007","YEAR":"2007","DESCRIPTION":"This public use release is one in a series of public use event files drawn from the 2007 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household (HC) and Medical Provider Components (MPC). This release contains 2 data files each of which is provided as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and as a SAS transport file. File 1 is used for linking the MEPS 2007 condition file (HC-112) with the MEPS 2007 event files (HC-110A through HC-110H); File 2 is used for linking the MEPS 2007 prescribed medicines event file (HC-110A) with other 2007 event files. This release also includes two tables provided as PDF files: Table 1, the \"MEPS 2007 Condition-Event Frequency\" table contains unweighted and weighted counts of records on the MEPS 2007 event files for each of the condition, procedure and clinical classification codes on the MEPS 2007 condition file; Table 2, the \"MEPS 2007 Utilization and Expenditures Summary\" table contains statistics for all of the utilization and expenditure variables contained on the MEPS 2007 person-level and event-level files.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-110I Appendix to MEPS 2007 Event Files","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":265,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-110F","TITLE":"2007 Outpatient Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2009-09-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2007","YEAR":"2007","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2007 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Outpatient Visits File provides detailed information on outpatient visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of outpatient utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2007. Each record represents one, household-reported, outpatient visit reported during the 2007 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 11, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2007 portion of round 3 for Panel 12 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2007). The Outpatient Visits Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the outpatient visit and imputed expenditure data such as the date of the visit, whether or not a doctor was seen, type of care received, type of services provided, expenditures and sources of payment, and imputed sources of payment. \r\n","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-110F 2007 Outpatient Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":294,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-126C","TITLE":"2009 Other Medical Expenses","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2011-07-29T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2009","YEAR":"2009","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2009 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information on the purchase of and expenditures for medical equipment, supplies, glasses and other medical items for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilization and expenditures associated with medical items during the 2009 calendar year. This file consists of 2009 data obtained in the 2009 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 13, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2009 portion of round 3 for Panel 14 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2009).","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-126C 2009 Other Medical Expenses","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":296,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-126E","TITLE":"2009 Emergency Room Visits File (Final)","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2011-11-23T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2009","YEAR":"2009","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2009 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Emergency Room Visits File provides detailed information on emergency room visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of emergency room utilizations and expenditures for calendar year 2009. Each record represents one, household-reported, emergency room visit reported during the 2009 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 13, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2009 portion of round 3 for Panel 14 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2009). The Emergency Room Visits Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the emergency room visit, such as, the date of the visit, types of care and services received, types of medicine prescribed during the visit , condition codes , expenditures, and sources of payment associated with the visit.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-126E 2009 Emergency Room Visits File (Final)","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":297,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-126F","TITLE":"2009 Outpatient Visits File (Final)","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2011-11-23T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2009","YEAR":"2009","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2009 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Outpatient Visits File provides detailed information on outpatient visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of outpatient utilizations and expenditures for calendar year 2009. Each record represents one, household-reported, outpatient visit reported during the 2009 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 13, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2009 portion of round 3 for Panel 14 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2009). The Outpatient Visits Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the outpatient visit such as the date of the visit, whether or not a doctor was seen, type of care received , type of services provided , expenditures, and sources of payment.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-126F 2009 Outpatient Visits File (Final)","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":268,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-110D","TITLE":"2007 Hospital Inpatient Stays File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2009-10-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2007","YEAR":"2007","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2007 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Hospital Inpatient Stays File provides detailed information on hospital inpatient stays. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of inpatient hospital stay utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2007. Each record represents one, household-reported, inpatient hospital stay reported during the 2007 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 11, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2008 portion of round 3 for Panel 12 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2007). The Hospital Inpatient Stays Public Use Data File is an event-level data file containing characteristics associated with the hospital inpatient stay event such as: the date of the hospital inpatient stay, reason for the stay, types of services received, condition(s) and procedure(s) associated with the hospital inpatient stay, whether or not medicines were prescribed and imputed expenditure data.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-110D 2007 Hospital Inpatient Stays","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":208,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-085F","TITLE":"2004 Outpatient Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2006-09-29T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2004","YEAR":"2004","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2004 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Outpatient Visits File provides detailed information on outpatient visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of outpatient utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2004. Each record represents one, household-reported, outpatient visit reported during the 2004 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 8, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2004 portion of round 3 for Panel 9 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2004). The Outpatient Visits Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the outpatient visit and imputed expenditure data such as the date of the visit, whether or not a doctor was seen, type of care received, type of services provided, expenditures and sources of payment, and imputed sources of payment.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-085F 2004 Outpatient Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":244,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-102E","TITLE":"2006 Emergency Room Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2008-09-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2006","YEAR":"2006","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2006 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Emergency Room Visits File provides detailed information on emergency room visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of emergency room utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2006. Each record represents one, household-reported, emergency room visit reported during the 2006 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 10, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2006 portion of round 3 for Panel 11 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2006). The Emergency Room Visits Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the emergency room visit, such as, the date of the visit, types of care and services received, types of medicine prescribed during the visit, condition codes, expenditures, and source of payment associated with the visit, and imputed expenditure variables.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-102E 2006 Emergency Room Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":264,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-110E","TITLE":"2007 Emergency Room Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2009-09-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2007","YEAR":"2007","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2007 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Emergency Room Visits File provides detailed information on emergency room visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of emergency room utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2007. Each record represents one, household-reported, emergency room visit reported during the 2007 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 11, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2007 portion of round 3 for Panel 12 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2007). \r\nThe Emergency Room Visits Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the emergency room visit, such as, the date of the visit, types of care and services received, types of medicine prescribed during the visit, condition codes, expenditures, and source of payment associated with the visit, and imputed expenditure variables. \r\n","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-110E 2007 Emergency Room Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":286,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-118I","TITLE":"Appendix to MEPS 2008 Event Files","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2010-11-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2008","YEAR":"2008","DESCRIPTION":"This public use release is one in a series of public use event files drawn from the 2008 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household (HC) and Medical Provider Components (MPC). This release contains 2 data files each of which is provided as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and as a SAS transport file. File 1 is used for linking the MEPS 2008 condition file (HC-120) with the MEPS 2008 event files (HC-118A through HC-118H); File 2 is used for linking the MEPS 2008 prescribed medicines event file (HC-118A) with other 2008 event files. This release also includes one table provided as PDF file: Table 1, the \"MEPS 2008 Condition-Event Frequency\" table contains unweighted and weighted counts of records on the MEPS 2008 event files for each of the condition, procedure and clinical classification codes on the MEPS 2008 condition file.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-118I Appendix to MEPS 2008 Event Files","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":309,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-135C","TITLE":"2010 Other Medical Expenses","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2012-06-29T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2010","YEAR":"2010","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2010 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information on the purchase of and expenditures for medical equipment, supplies, glasses and other medical items for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilization and expenditures associated with medical items during the 2010 calendar year. This file consists of 2010 data obtained in the 2010 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 14, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2010 portion of round 3 for Panel 15 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2010).","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-135C 2010 Other Medical Expenses","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":298,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-126G","TITLE":"2009 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits File (Final)","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2011-11-23T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2009","YEAR":"2009","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2009 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Medical Provider Visits File provides detailed information on office-based medical provider visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of office-based medical provider utilizations and expenditures for calendar year 2009. Each record represents one household-reported office-based medical provider visit reported during the 2009 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 13, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2009 portion of round 3 for Panel 14 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2009). The Office-Based Provider Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the office-based visit, such as, date of the visit, time spent with the provider, types of treatment and services received, types of medicine prescribed , condition codes , expenditures, and sources of payment associated with the visit.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-126G 2009 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits (Final)","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":281,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-118E","TITLE":"2008 Emergency Room Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2010-09-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2008","YEAR":"2008","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2008 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Emergency Room Visits File provides detailed information on emergency room visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of emergency room utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2008. Each record represents one, household-reported, emergency room visit reported during the 2008 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 12, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2008 portion of round 3 for Panel 13 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2008). The Emergency Room Visits Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the emergency room visit, such as, the date of the visit, types of care and services received, types of medicine prescribed during the visit, condition codes, expenditures, and source of payment associated with the visit, and imputed expenditure variables.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-118E 2008 Emergency Room Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":263,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-110H","TITLE":"2007 Home Health File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2009-08-31T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2007","YEAR":"2007","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2007 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). The Home Health File contains household-reported information on expenditures for home health visits including the type of provider, type of services received, length of the visit, reason for the visit, expenditures, and sources of payment. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information on home health care for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilization and expenditures associated with home health care during the 2007 calendar year. This file consists of 2007 data obtained in the 2007 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 11, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2007 portion of round 3 for Panel 12 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2007).","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-110H 2007 Home Health","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":293,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-126B","TITLE":"2009 Dental Visits","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2011-07-29T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2009","YEAR":"2009","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2009 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Dental Visits File provides detailed information on dental events for a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the 2009 calendar year. This file consists of 2009 data obtained in the 2009 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 13, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2009 portion of round 3 for Panel 14 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2009), and contains variables pertaining to household reported dental visits. The file includes the date of the dental event, type of provider seen, if the visit was due to an accident, reason for the dental event, and whether or not medicines were prescribed.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-126B 2009 Dental Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":373,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-160I","TITLE":"Appendix to MEPS 2013 Event Files","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2015-09-24T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2013","YEAR":"2013","DESCRIPTION":"This public use release is one in a series of public use event files drawn from the 2013 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household (HC) and Medical Provider Components (MPC). This release contains 2 data files each of which is provided as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and as a SAS transport file. File 1 is used for linking the MEPS 2013 condition file (HC-162) with the MEPS 2013 event files (HC-160A through HC-160H); File 2 is used for linking the MEPS 2013 prescribed medicines event file (HC-160A) with other 2013 event files. This release also includes one table provided as PDF file: Table 1, the \"MEPS 2013 Condition-Event Frequency\" table contains unweighted and weighted counts of records on the MEPS 2013 event files for each of the condition, procedure and clinical classification codes on the MEPS 2013 condition file.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-160I Appendix to MEPS 2013 Event Files","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":299,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-126H","TITLE":"2009 Home Health File (Final)","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2011-10-28T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2009","YEAR":"2009","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2009 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). The Home Health File contains household-reported information on home health visits including the type of provider, type of services received, length of the visit, reason for the visit, expenditures, and sources of payment. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information on home health care for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilizations and expenditures associated with home health care during the 2009 calendar year. This file consists of 2009 data obtained in the 2009 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 13, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2009 portion of round 3 for Panel 14 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2009).","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-126H 2009 Home Health File (Final)","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":278,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-118C","TITLE":"2008 Other Medical Expenses","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2010-08-31T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2008","YEAR":"2008","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2008 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information on the purchase of and expenditures for medical equipment, supplies, glasses and other medical items for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilization and expenditures associated with medical items during the 2008 calendar year. This file consists of 2008 data obtained in the 2008 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 12, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2008 portion of round 3 for Panel 13 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2008).","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-118C 2008 Other Medical Expenses","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":316,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-135A","TITLE":"2010 Prescribed Medicines File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2012-08-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2010","YEAR":"2010","DESCRIPTION":"\nThis file is one in a series of public use event files from the 2010 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC) and Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII data file and SAS transport file (with SAS, STATA, and SPSS user statements) this public use file provides detailed information on household-reported prescribed medicines for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of prescribed medicine utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2010. Each record represents one household-reported prescribed medicine that was purchased during calendar year 2010. These data were collected during the 2010 portion of Round 3 and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 14, as well as Rounds 1, 2 and the 2010 portion of Round 3 for Panel 15 of the MEPS HC. Each record on this event file represents a unique prescribed medicine event; that is, a prescribed medicine reported as being purchased or otherwise obtained by the household respondent, and includes the following: an identifier for each unique prescribed medicine; detailed characteristics associated with the event (e.g., national drug code (NDC), medicine name, etc.); selected Multum Lexicon variables; conditions, if any, associated with the medicine; the date on which the person first used the medicine; total expenditure and sources of payments; types of pharmacies that filled the household's prescriptions; and a full-year person level weight.

⚠ A problem was discovered with the linking between the MEPS Prescribed Medicines files and the Cerner Multum file that resulted in some incorrect therapeutic classes being assigned. The Multum Lexicon Addendum files (HC-068) contain the corrected therapeutic classes. Analysts should use caution when using the Cerner Multum therapeutic class variables for analysis and should always check for accuracy, because the Multum classification has been changed by the addition of new classes and subclasses, and by changes in the hierarchy of classes. See the documentation for the Multum Lexicon Addendum files for examples.

The Multum Lexicon Addendum files (HC-068) also contain an additional variable not in the 1996 through 2012 MEPS Prescribed Medicines files: the generic name of the drug most commonly used by prescribing physicians.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-135A 2010 Prescribed Medicines","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":311,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-135H","TITLE":"2010 Home Health File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2012-06-29T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2010","YEAR":"2010","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2010 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). The Home Health File contains household-reported information on home health visits including the type of provider, type of services received, length of the visit, reason for the visit, expenditures, and sources of payment. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information on home health care for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilizations and expenditures associated with home health care during the 2010 calendar year. This file consists of 2010 data obtained in the 2010 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 14, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2010 portion of round 3 for Panel 15 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2010).","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-135H 2010 Home Health File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":284,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-118G","TITLE":"2008 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2010-10-29T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2008","YEAR":"2008","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2008 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Medical Provider Visits File provides detailed information on office-based medical provider visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of office-based medical provider utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2008. Each record represents one household-reported office-based medical provider visit reported during the 2008 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 12, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2008 portion of round 3 for Panel 13 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2008). The Office-Based Provider Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the office-based visit, such as, date of the visit, time spent with the provider, types of treatment and services received, types of medicine prescribed, condition codes, expenditures, source of payment associated with the visit and imputed expenditure variables. \r\n","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-118G 2008 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":302,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-126I","TITLE":"Appendix to MEPS 2009 Event Files","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2011-09-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2009","YEAR":"2009","DESCRIPTION":"This public use release is one in a series of public use event files drawn from the 2009 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household (HC) and Medical Provider Components (MPC). This release contains 2 data files each of which is provided as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and as a SAS transport file. File 1 is used for linking the MEPS 2009 condition file (HC-128) with the MEPS 2009 event files (HC-126A through HC-126H); File 2 is used for linking the MEPS 2009 prescribed medicines event file (HC-126A) with other 2009 event files. This release also includes one table provided as PDF file: Table 1, the \"MEPS 2009 Condition-Event Frequency\" table contains unweighted and weighted counts of records on the MEPS 2009 event files for each of the condition, procedure and clinical classification codes on the MEPS 2009 condition file.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-126I Appendix to MEPS 2009 Event Files","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":312,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-135E","TITLE":"2010 Emergency Room Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2012-07-25T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2010","YEAR":"2010","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2010 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA program statements and in SAS transport format, the Emergency Room Visits File provides detailed information on emergency room visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of emergency room utilizations and expenditures for calendar year 2010. Each record represents one, household-reported, emergency room visit reported during the 2010 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 14, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2010 portion of round 3 for Panel 15 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2010). The Emergency Room Visits Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the emergency room visit, such as, the date of the visit, types of care and services received, types of medicine prescribed during the visit , condition codes , expenditures, and sources of payment associated with the visit.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-135E 2010 Emergency Room Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":313,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-135F","TITLE":"2010 Outpatient Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2012-07-25T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2010","YEAR":"2010","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2010 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA program statements and in SAS transport format, the Outpatient Visits File provides detailed information on outpatient visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of outpatient utilizations and expenditures for calendar year 2010. Each record represents one, household-reported, outpatient visit reported during the 2010 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 14, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2010 portion of round 3 for Panel 15 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2010). The Outpatient Visits Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the outpatient visit such as the date of the visit, whether or not a doctor was seen, type of care received , type of services provided , expenditures, and sources of payment.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-135F 2010 Outpatient Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":364,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-160H","TITLE":"2013 Home Health File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2015-06-19T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2013","YEAR":"2013","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2013 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). The Home Health File contains household-reported information on home health visits including the type of provider, type of services received, length of the visit, reason for the visit, expenditures, and sources of payment. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information on home health care for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilizations and expenditures associated with home health care during the 2013 calendar year. 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Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of office-based medical provider utilizations and expenditures for calendar year 2011. Each record represents one household-reported office-based medical provider visit reported during the 2011 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 15, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2011 portion of round 3 for Panel 16 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2011). 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File 1 is used for linking the MEPS 2011 condition file (HC-146) with the MEPS 2011 event files (HC-144A through HC-144H); File 2 is used for linking the MEPS 2011 prescribed medicines event file (HC-144A) with other 2011 event files. 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Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Dental Visits File provides detailed information on dental events for a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the 2010 calendar year. This file consists of 2010 data obtained in the 2010 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 14, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2010 portion of round 3 for Panel 15 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2010), and contains variables pertaining to household reported dental visits. 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Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of emergency room utilizations and expenditures for calendar year 2013. Each record represents one, household-reported, emergency room visit reported during the 2013 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 17, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2013 portion of round 3 for Panel 18 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2013). The Emergency Room Visits Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the emergency room visit, such as, the date of the visit, types of care and services received, types of medicine prescribed during the visit , condition codes , expenditures, and sources of payment associated with the visit.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-160E 2013 Emergency Room Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":331,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-144F","TITLE":"2011 Outpatient Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2013-07-23T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2011","YEAR":"2011","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2011 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA program statements and in SAS transport format, the Outpatient Visits File provides detailed information on outpatient visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of outpatient utilizations and expenditures for calendar year 2011. Each record represents one, household-reported, outpatient visit reported during the 2011 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 15, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2011 portion of round 3 for Panel 16 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2011). The Outpatient Visits Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the outpatient visit such as the date of the visit, whether or not a doctor was seen, type of care received , type of services provided , expenditures, and sources of payment.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-144F 2011 Outpatient Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":295,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-126D","TITLE":"2009 Hospital Inpatient Stays File (Final)","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2011-11-23T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2009","YEAR":"2009","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2009 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Hospital Inpatient Stays File provides detailed information on hospital inpatient stays. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of inpatient hospital stay utilizations and expenditures for calendar year 2009. Each record represents one, household-reported, inpatient hospital stay reported during the 2009 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 13, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2009 portion of round 3 for Panel 14 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2009). 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Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA program statements and in SAS transport format, the Hospital Inpatient Stays File provides detailed information on hospital inpatient stays. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of inpatient hospital stay utilizations and expenditures for calendar year 2010. Each record represents one, household-reported, inpatient hospital stay reported during the 2010 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 14, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2010 portion of round 3 for Panel 15 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2010). 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Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA program statements and in SAS transport format, the Hospital Inpatient Stays File provides detailed information on hospital inpatient stays. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of inpatient hospital stay utilizations and expenditures for calendar year 2011. Each record represents one, household-reported, inpatient hospital stay reported during the 2011 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 15, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2011 portion of round 3 for Panel 16 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2011). The Hospital Inpatient Stays Public Use Data File is an event-level data file containing characteristics associated with the hospital inpatient stay event such as: the date of the hospital inpatient stay, reason for the stay, types of services received, condition(s) and procedure(s) associated with the hospital inpatient stay, whether or not medicines were prescribed ,and imputed expenditure data.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-144D 2011 Hospital Inpatient Stays File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":388,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-168A","TITLE":"2014 Prescribed Medicines File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2016-08-19T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2014","YEAR":"2014","DESCRIPTION":"This file is one in a series of public use event files from the 2014 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC) and Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII data file and SAS transport file (with SAS, STATA, and SPSS user statements) this public use file provides detailed information on household-reported prescribed medicines for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of prescribed medicine utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2014. Each record represents one household-reported prescribed medicine that was purchased during calendar year 2014. These data were collected during the 2014 portion of Round 3 and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 18, as well as Rounds 1, 2 and the 2014 portion of Round 3 for Panel 19 of the MEPS HC. Each record on this event file represents a unique prescribed medicine event; that is, a prescribed medicine reported as being purchased or otherwise obtained by the household respondent, and includes the following: an identifier for each unique prescribed medicine; detailed characteristics associated with the event (e.g., national drug code (NDC), medicine name, etc.); selected Multum Lexicon variables; conditions, if any, associated with the medicine; the date on which the person first used the medicine; total expenditure and sources of payments; types of pharmacies that filled the household's prescriptions; and a full-year person level weight.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-168A 2014 Prescribed Medicines File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":381,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-168C","TITLE":"2014 Other Medical Expenses File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2016-06-20T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2014","YEAR":"2014","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2014 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information on the purchase of and expenditures for medical equipment, supplies, glasses and other medical items for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilization and expenditures associated with medical items during the 2014 calendar year. 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Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Dental Visits File provides detailed information on dental events for a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the 2014 calendar year. This file consists of 2014 data obtained in the 2014 portion of round 3, and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 18, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2014 portion of round 3 for Panel 19 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2014), and contains variables pertaining to household reported dental visits. The file includes the date of the dental event, type of provider seen, if the visit was due to an accident, reason for the dental event, and whether or not medicines were prescribed.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-168B 2014 Dental Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":452,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-197A","TITLE":"2017 Prescribed Medicines File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2019-07-26T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2017","YEAR":"2017","DESCRIPTION":"This file is one in a series of public use event files from the 2017 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC) and Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII data file a SAS transport file (with SAS, STATA, and SPSS user statements), a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, this public use file provides detailed information on household-reported prescribed medicines for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of prescribed medicine utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2017. Each record represents one household-reported prescribed medicine that was purchased during calendar year 2017. These data were collected during the 2017 portion of Round 3 and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 21, as well as Rounds 1, 2 and the 2017 portion of Round 3 for Panel 22 of the MEPS HC. Each record on this event file represents a unique prescribed medicine event; that is, a prescribed medicine reported as being purchased or otherwise obtained by the household respondent, and includes the following: an identifier for each unique prescribed medicine; detailed characteristics associated with the event (e.g., national drug code (NDC), medicine name, etc.); selected Multum Lexicon variables; the date on which the person first used the medicine; total expenditure and sources of payments; types of pharmacies that filled the household's prescriptions; and a full-year person level weight. 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Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information on the purchase of and expenditures for medical equipment, supplies, glasses and other medical items for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilization and expenditures associated with medical items during the 2016 calendar year. 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Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of emergency room utilizations and expenditures for calendar year 2015. Each record represents one, household-reported, emergency room visit reported during the 2015 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 19, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2015 portion of round 3 for Panel 20 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2015). The Emergency Room Visits Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the emergency room visit, such as, the date of the visit, types of care and services received, types of medicine prescribed during the visit , condition codes , expenditures, and sources of payment associated with the visit.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-178E 2015 Emergency Room Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":408,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-178D","TITLE":"2015 Hospital Inpatient Stays File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2017-06-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2015","YEAR":"2015","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2015 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA program statements and in SAS transport format, the Hospital Inpatient Stays File provides detailed information on hospital inpatient stays. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of inpatient hospital stay utilizations and expenditures for calendar year 2015. Each record represents one, household-reported, inpatient hospital stay reported during the 2015 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 19, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2015 portion of round 3 for Panel 20 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2015). The Hospital Inpatient Stays Public Use Data File is an event-level data file containing characteristics associated with the hospital inpatient stay event such as: the date of the hospital inpatient stay, reason for the stay, types of services received, condition(s) and procedure(s) associated with the hospital inpatient stay, whether or not medicines were prescribed ,and imputed expenditure data.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-178D 2015 Hospital Inpatient Stays File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":451,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-197G","TITLE":"2017 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2019-06-28T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2017","YEAR":"2017","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2017 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). 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The Home Health File contains household-reported information on home health visits including the type of provider, type of services received, length of the visit, reason for the visit, expenditures, and sources of payment. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information on home health care for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilizations and expenditures associated with home health care during the 2014 calendar year. 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Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information on home health care for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilizations and expenditures associated with home health care during the 2016 calendar year. 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Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of inpatient hospital stay utilizations and expenditures for calendar year 2016. Each record represents one household-reported inpatient hospital stay reported during the 2016 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 20, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2016 portion of round 3 for Panel 21 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2016). The Hospital Inpatient Stays Public Use Data File is an event-level data file containing characteristics associated with the hospital inpatient stay event such as: the date of the hospital inpatient stay, reason for the stay, types of services received, whether or not medicines were prescribed, and imputed expenditure data.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-188D: 2016 Hospital Inpatient Stays File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":436,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-188I","TITLE":"Appendix to MEPS 2016 Event Files","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2019-05-10T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2016","YEAR":"2016","DESCRIPTION":"This public use release is one in a series of public use event files drawn from the 2016 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household (HC) and Medical Provider Components (MPC). This release contains 2 data files each of which is provided as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and as a SAS transport file. File 1 is used for linking the MEPS 2016 condition file (HC-190) with the MEPS 2016 event files (HC-188A through HC-188H); File 2 is used for linking the MEPS 2016 prescribed medicines event file (HC-188A) with other 2016 event files.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-188I: Appendix to MEPS 2016 Event Files","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":343,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-152B","TITLE":"2012 Dental Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2014-06-19T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2012","YEAR":"2012","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2012 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Dental Visits File provides detailed information on dental events for a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the 2012 calendar year. This file consists of 2012 data obtained in the 2012 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 16, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2012 portion of round 3 for Panel 17 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2012), and contains variables pertaining to household reported dental visits. The file includes the date of the dental event, type of provider seen, if the visit was due to an accident, reason for the dental event, and whether or not medicines were prescribed.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-152B 2012 Dental Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":344,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-152C","TITLE":"2012 Other Medical Expenses File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2014-06-19T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2012","YEAR":"2012","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2012 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information on the purchase of and expenditures for medical equipment, supplies, glasses and other medical items for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilization and expenditures associated with medical items during the 2012 calendar year. This file consists of 2012 data obtained in the 2012 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 16, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2012 portion of round 3 for Panel 17 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2012).","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-152C 2012 Other Medical Expenses File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":345,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-152H","TITLE":"2012 Home Health File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2014-06-19T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2012","YEAR":"2012","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2012 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). The Home Health File contains household-reported information on home health visits including the type of provider, type of services received, length of the visit, reason for the visit, expenditures, and sources of payment. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information on home health care for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilizations and expenditures associated with home health care during the 2012 calendar year. This file consists of 2012 data obtained in the 2012 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 16, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2012 portion of round 3 for Panel 17 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2012).","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-152H 2012 Home Health File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":448,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-197D","TITLE":"2017 Hospital Inpatient Stays File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2019-06-28T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2017","YEAR":"2017","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2017 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA program statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the Hospital Inpatient Stays File provides detailed information on hospital inpatient stays. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of inpatient hospital stay utilizations and expenditures for calendar year 2017. Each record represents one household-reported inpatient hospital stay reported during the 2017 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 21, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2017 portion of round 3 for Panel 22 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2017). The Hospital Inpatient Stays Public Use Data File is an event-level data file containing characteristics associated with the hospital inpatient stay event such as: the date of the hospital inpatient stay, reason for the stay, types of services received, whether or not medicines were prescribed, and imputed expenditure data. For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-197D: 2017 Hospital Inpatient Stays File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":410,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-178A","TITLE":"2015 Prescribed Medicines File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2017-07-28T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2015","YEAR":"2015","DESCRIPTION":"This file is one in a series of public use event files from the 2015 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC) and Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII data file and SAS transport file (with SAS, STATA, and SPSS user statements) this public use file provides detailed information on household-reported prescribed medicines for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of prescribed medicine utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2015. Each record represents one household-reported prescribed medicine that was purchased during calendar year 2015. These data were collected during the 2015 portion of Round 3 and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 19, as well as Rounds 1, 2 and the 2015 portion of Round 3 for Panel 20 of the MEPS HC. Each record on this event file represents a unique prescribed medicine event; that is, a prescribed medicine reported as being purchased or otherwise obtained by the household respondent, and includes the following: an identifier for each unique prescribed medicine; detailed characteristics associated with the event (e.g., national drug code (NDC), medicine name, etc.); selected Multum Lexicon variables; conditions, if any, associated with the medicine; the date on which the person first used the medicine; total expenditure and sources of payments; types of pharmacies that filled the household's prescriptions; and a full-year person level weight.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-178A 2015 Prescribed Medicines File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":459,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-197I","TITLE":"Appendix to MEPS 2017 Event Files","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2019-08-23T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2017","YEAR":"2017","DESCRIPTION":"This public use release is one in a series of public use event files drawn from the 2017 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household (HC) and Medical Provider Components (MPC). This release contains 2 data files each of which is provided as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file. File 1 is used for linking the MEPS 2017 condition file (HC-199) with the MEPS 2017 event files (HC-197A through HC-197H); File 2 is used for linking the MEPS 2017 prescribed medicines event file (HC-197A) with other 2017 event files. For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-197I: Appendix to MEPS 2017 Event Files","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":406,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-178F","TITLE":"2015 Outpatient Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2017-06-23T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2015","YEAR":"2015","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2015 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA program statements and in SAS transport format, the Outpatient Visits File provides detailed information on outpatient visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of outpatient utilizations and expenditures for calendar year 2015. Each record represents one, household-reported, outpatient visit reported during the 2015 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 19, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2015 portion of round 3 for Panel 20 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2015). The Outpatient Visits Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the outpatient visit such as the date of the visit, whether or not a doctor was seen, type of care received , type of services provided , expenditures, and sources of payment.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-178F 2015 Outpatient Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":384,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-168D","TITLE":"2014 Hospital Inpatient Stays File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2016-07-22T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2014","YEAR":"2014","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2014 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA program statements and in SAS transport format, the Hospital Inpatient Stays File provides detailed information on hospital inpatient stays. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of inpatient hospital stay utilizations and expenditures for calendar year 2014. Each record represents one, household-reported, inpatient hospital stay reported during the 2014 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 18, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2014 portion of round 3 for Panel 19 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2014). The Hospital Inpatient Stays Public Use Data File is an event-level data file containing characteristics associated with the hospital inpatient stay event such as: the date of the hospital inpatient stay, reason for the stay, types of services received, condition(s) and procedure(s) associated with the hospital inpatient stay, whether or not medicines were prescribed ,and imputed expenditure data.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-168D 2014 Hospital Inpatient Stays File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":385,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-168E","TITLE":"2014 Emergency Room Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2016-07-22T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2014","YEAR":"2014","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2014 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA program statements and in SAS transport format, the Emergency Room Visits File provides detailed information on emergency room visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of emergency room utilizations and expenditures for calendar year 2014. Each record represents one, household-reported, emergency room visit reported during the 2014 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 18, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2014 portion of round 3 for Panel 19 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2014). The Emergency Room Visits Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the emergency room visit, such as, the date of the visit, types of care and services received, types of medicine prescribed during the visit , condition codes , expenditures, and sources of payment associated with the visit.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-168E 2014 Emergency Room Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":348,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-152F","TITLE":"2012 Outpatient Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2014-07-18T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2012","YEAR":"2012","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2012 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA program statements and in SAS transport format, the Outpatient Visits File provides detailed information on outpatient visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of outpatient utilizations and expenditures for calendar year 2012. Each record represents one, household-reported, outpatient visit reported during the 2012 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 16, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2012 portion of round 3 for Panel 17 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2012). The Outpatient Visits Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the outpatient visit such as the date of the visit, whether or not a doctor was seen, type of care received , type of services provided , expenditures, and sources of payment.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-152F 2012 Outpatient Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":349,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-152G","TITLE":"2012 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2014-07-18T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2012","YEAR":"2012","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2012 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA program statements and in SAS transport format, the Medical Provider Visits File provides detailed information on office-based medical provider visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of office-based medical provider utilizations and expenditures for calendar year 2012. Each record represents one household-reported office-based medical provider visit reported during the 2012 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 16, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2012 portion of round 3 for Panel 17 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2012). The Office-Based Provider Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the office-based visit, such as, date of the visit, time spent with the provider, types of treatment and services received, types of medicine prescribed , condition codes , expenditures, and sources of payment associated with the visit.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-152G 2012 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":354,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-152I","TITLE":"Appendix to MEPS 2012 Event Files","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2014-09-19T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2012","YEAR":"2012","DESCRIPTION":"This public use release is one in a series of public use event files drawn from the 2012 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household (HC) and Medical Provider Components (MPC). This release contains 2 data files each of which is provided as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and as a SAS transport file. File 1 is used for linking the MEPS 2012 condition file (HC-154) with the MEPS 2012 event files (HC-152A through HC-152H); File 2 is used for linking the MEPS 2012 prescribed medicines event file (HC-152A) with other 2012 event files. This release also includes one table provided as PDF file: Table 1, the \"MEPS 2012 Condition-Event Frequency\" table contains unweighted and weighted counts of records on the MEPS 2012 event files for each of the condition, procedure and clinical classification codes on the MEPS 2012 condition file.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-152I Appendix to MEPS 2012 Event Files","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":407,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-178G","TITLE":"2015 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2017-06-23T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2015","YEAR":"2015","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2015 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA program statements and in SAS transport format, the Medical Provider Visits File provides detailed information on office-based medical provider visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of office-based medical provider utilizations and expenditures for calendar year 2015. Each record represents one household-reported office-based medical provider visit reported during the 2015 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 19, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2015 portion of round 3 for Panel 20 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2015). The Office-Based Provider Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the office-based visit, such as, date of the visit, time spent with the provider, types of treatment and services received, types of medicine prescribed , condition codes , expenditures, and sources of payment associated with the visit.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-178G 2015 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":365,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-160D","TITLE":"2013 Hospital Inpatient Stays File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2015-07-17T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2013","YEAR":"2013","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2013 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA program statements and in SAS transport format, the Hospital Inpatient Stays File provides detailed information on hospital inpatient stays. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of inpatient hospital stay utilizations and expenditures for calendar year 2013. Each record represents one, household-reported, inpatient hospital stay reported during the 2013 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 17, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2013 portion of round 3 for Panel 18 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2013). The Hospital Inpatient Stays Public Use Data File is an event-level data file containing characteristics associated with the hospital inpatient stay event such as: the date of the hospital inpatient stay, reason for the stay, types of services received, condition(s) and procedure(s) associated with the hospital inpatient stay, whether or not medicines were prescribed ,and imputed expenditure data.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-160D 2013 Hospital Inpatient Stays File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":367,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-160F","TITLE":"2013 Outpatient Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2015-07-22T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2013","YEAR":"2013","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2013 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA program statements and in SAS transport format, the Outpatient Visits File provides detailed information on outpatient visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of outpatient utilizations and expenditures for calendar year 2013. Each record represents one, household-reported, outpatient visit reported during the 2013 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 17, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2013 portion of round 3 for Panel 18 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2013). The Outpatient Visits Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the outpatient visit such as the date of the visit, whether or not a doctor was seen, type of care received , type of services provided , expenditures, and sources of payment.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-160F 2013 Outpatient Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":392,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-168I","TITLE":"Appendix to MEPS 2014 Event Files","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2016-09-28T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2014","YEAR":"2014","DESCRIPTION":"This public use release is one in a series of public use event files drawn from the 2014 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household (HC) and Medical Provider Components (MPC). This release contains 2 data files each of which is provided as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and as a SAS transport file. File 1 is used for linking the MEPS 2014 condition file (HC-170) with the MEPS 2014 event files (HC-168A through HC-168H); File 2 is used for linking the MEPS 2014 prescribed medicines event file (HC-168A) with other 2014 event files. This release also includes one table provided as PDF file: Table 1, the \"MEPS 2014 Condition-Event Frequency\" table contains unweighted and weighted counts of records on the MEPS 2014 event files for each of the condition, procedure and clinical classification codes on the MEPS 2014 condition file.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-168I Appendix to MEPS 2014 Event Files","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":386,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-168F","TITLE":"2014 Outpatient Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2016-07-22T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2014","YEAR":"2014","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2014 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA program statements and in SAS transport format, the Outpatient Visits File provides detailed information on outpatient visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of outpatient utilizations and expenditures for calendar year 2014. Each record represents one, household-reported, outpatient visit reported during the 2014 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 18, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2014 portion of round 3 for Panel 19 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2014). The Outpatient Visits Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the outpatient visit such as the date of the visit, whether or not a doctor was seen, type of care received , type of services provided , expenditures, and sources of payment.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-168F 2014 Outpatient Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":387,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-168G","TITLE":"2014 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2016-07-22T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2014","YEAR":"2014","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2014 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA program statements and in SAS transport format, the Medical Provider Visits File provides detailed information on office-based medical provider visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of office-based medical provider utilizations and expenditures for calendar year 2014. Each record represents one household-reported office-based medical provider visit reported during the 2014 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 18, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2014 portion of round 3 for Panel 19 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2014). The Office-Based Provider Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the office-based visit, such as, date of the visit, time spent with the provider, types of treatment and services received, types of medicine prescribed , condition codes , expenditures, and sources of payment associated with the visit.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-168G 2014 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":368,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-160G","TITLE":"2013 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2015-07-22T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2013","YEAR":"2013","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2013 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA program statements and in SAS transport format, the Medical Provider Visits File provides detailed information on office-based medical provider visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of office-based medical provider utilizations and expenditures for calendar year 2013. Each record represents one household-reported office-based medical provider visit reported during the 2013 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 17, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2013 portion of round 3 for Panel 18 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2013). The Office-Based Provider Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the office-based visit, such as, date of the visit, time spent with the provider, types of treatment and services received, types of medicine prescribed , condition codes , expenditures, and sources of payment associated with the visit.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-160G 2013 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":403,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-178B","TITLE":"2015 Dental Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2017-05-19T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2015","YEAR":"2015","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2015 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Dental Visits File provides detailed information on dental events for a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the 2015 calendar year. This file consists of 2015 data obtained in the 2015 portion of round 3, and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 19, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2015 portion of round 3 for Panel 20 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2015), and contains variables pertaining to household reported dental visits. The file includes the date of the dental event, type of provider seen, if the visit was due to an accident, reason for the dental event, and whether or not medicines were prescribed.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-178B 2015 Dental Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":404,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-178C","TITLE":"2015 Other Medical Expenses File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2017-05-19T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2015","YEAR":"2015","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2015 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information on the purchase of and expenditures for medical equipment, supplies, glasses and other medical items for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilization and expenditures associated with medical items during the 2015 calendar year. 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Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the Dental Visits File provides detailed information on dental events for a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the 2017 calendar year. This file consists of 2017 data obtained in the 2017 portion of round 3, and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 21, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2017 portion of round 3 for Panel 22 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2017), and contains variables pertaining to household reported dental visits. The file includes the date of the dental event, type of provider seen, if the visit was due to an accident, reason for the dental event, and whether or not medicines were prescribed. For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-197B: 2017 Dental Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":445,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-197C","TITLE":"2017 Other Medical Expenses File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2019-05-24T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2017","YEAR":"2017","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2017 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, this public use file provides information on the purchase of and expenditures for medical equipment, supplies, glasses and other medical items for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilization and expenditures associated with medical items during the 2017 calendar year. This file consists of 2017 data obtained in the 2017 portion of round 3, and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 21, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2017 portion of round 3 for Panel 22 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2017). For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-197C: 2017 Other Medical Expenses File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":431,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-188A","TITLE":"2016 Prescribed Medicines File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2018-07-27T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2016","YEAR":"2016","DESCRIPTION":"This file is one in a series of public use event files from the 2016 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC) and Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII data file and SAS transport file (with SAS, STATA, and SPSS user statements) this public use file provides detailed information on household-reported prescribed medicines for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of prescribed medicine utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2016. Each record represents one household-reported prescribed medicine that was purchased during calendar year 2016. These data were collected during the 2016 portion of Round 3 and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 20, as well as Rounds 1, 2 and the 2016 portion of Round 3 for Panel 21 of the MEPS HC. Each record on this event file represents a unique prescribed medicine event; that is, a prescribed medicine reported as being purchased or otherwise obtained by the household respondent, and includes the following: an identifier for each unique prescribed medicine; detailed characteristics associated with the event (e.g., national drug code (NDC), medicine name, etc.); selected Multum Lexicon variables; the date on which the person first used the medicine; total expenditure and sources of payments; types of pharmacies that filled the household's prescriptions; and a full-year person level weight.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-188A: 2016 Prescribed Medicines File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":427,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-188F","TITLE":"2016 Outpatient Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2018-06-22T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2016","YEAR":"2016","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2016 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA program statements and in SAS transport format, the Outpatient Visits File provides detailed information on outpatient visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of outpatient utilizations and expenditures for calendar year 2016. Each record represents one household-reported outpatient visit reported during the 2016 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 20, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2016 portion of round 3 for Panel 21 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2016). The Outpatient Visits Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the outpatient visit such as the date of the visit, whether or not a doctor was seen, type of care received, type of services provided, expenditures, and sources of payment.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-188F: 2016 Outpatient Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":450,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-197F","TITLE":"2017 Outpatient Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2019-06-28T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2017","YEAR":"2017","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2017 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the Outpatient Visits File provides detailed information on outpatient visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of outpatient utilizations and expenditures for calendar year 2017. Each record represents one household-reported outpatient visit reported during the 2017 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 21, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2017 portion of round 3 for Panel 22 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2017). The Outpatient Visits Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the outpatient visit such as the date of the visit, whether or not a doctor was seen, type of care received, type of services provided, expenditures, and sources of payment. For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-197F: 2017 Outpatient Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":449,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-197E","TITLE":"2017 Emergency Room Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2019-06-28T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2017","YEAR":"2017","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2017 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the Emergency Room Visits File provides detailed information on emergency room visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of emergency room utilizations and expenditures for calendar year 2017. Each record represents one household-reported emergency room visit reported during the 2017 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 21, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2017 portion of round 3 for Panel 22 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2017). The Emergency Room Visits Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the emergency room visit, such as, the date of the visit, types of care and services received, types of medicine prescribed during the visit, expenditures, and sources of payment associated with the visit. For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-197E: 2017 Emergency Room Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":428,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-188G","TITLE":"2016 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2018-06-22T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2016","YEAR":"2016","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2016 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA program statements and in SAS transport format, the Medical Provider Visits File provides detailed information on office-based medical provider visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of office-based medical provider utilizations and expenditures for calendar year 2016. Each record represents one household-reported office-based medical provider visit reported during the 2016 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 20, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2016 portion of round 3 for Panel 21 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2016). The Office-Based Provider Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the office-based visit, such as, date of the visit, time spent with the provider, types of treatment and services received, types of medicine prescribed, expenditures, and sources of payment associated with the visit.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-188G: 2016 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":405,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-178H","TITLE":"2015 Home Health File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2017-05-26T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2015","YEAR":"2015","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2015 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). The Home Health File contains household-reported information on home health visits including the type of provider, type of services received, length of the visit, reason for the visit, expenditures, and sources of payment. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information on home health care for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilizations and expenditures associated with home health care during the 2015 calendar year. This file consists of 2015 data obtained in the 2015 portion of round 3, and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 19, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2015 portion of round 3 for Panel 20 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2015).","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-178H 2015 Home Health File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":346,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-152D","TITLE":"2012 Hospital Inpatient Stays File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2014-07-18T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2012","YEAR":"2012","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2012 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA program statements and in SAS transport format, the Hospital Inpatient Stays File provides detailed information on hospital inpatient stays. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of inpatient hospital stay utilizations and expenditures for calendar year 2012. Each record represents one, household-reported, inpatient hospital stay reported during the 2012 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 16, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2012 portion of round 3 for Panel 17 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2012). The Hospital Inpatient Stays Public Use Data File is an event-level data file containing characteristics associated with the hospital inpatient stay event such as: the date of the hospital inpatient stay, reason for the stay, types of services received, condition(s) and procedure(s) associated with the hospital inpatient stay, whether or not medicines were prescribed ,and imputed expenditure data.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-152D 2012 Hospital Inpatient Stays File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":347,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-152E","TITLE":"2012 Emergency Room Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2014-07-18T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2012","YEAR":"2012","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2012 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA program statements and in SAS transport format, the Emergency Room Visits File provides detailed information on emergency room visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of emergency room utilizations and expenditures for calendar year 2012. Each record represents one, household-reported, emergency room visit reported during the 2012 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 16, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2012 portion of round 3 for Panel 17 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2012). The Emergency Room Visits Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the emergency room visit, such as, the date of the visit, types of care and services received, types of medicine prescribed during the visit , condition codes , expenditures, and sources of payment associated with the visit.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-152E 2012 Emergency Room Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":362,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-160B","TITLE":"2013 Dental Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2015-06-19T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2013","YEAR":"2013","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2013 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Dental Visits File provides detailed information on dental events for a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the 2013 calendar year. This file consists of 2013 data obtained in the 2013 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 17, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2013 portion of round 3 for Panel 18 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2013), and contains variables pertaining to household reported dental visits. The file includes the date of the dental event, type of provider seen, if the visit was due to an accident, reason for the dental event, and whether or not medicines were prescribed.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-160B 2013 Dental Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":363,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-160C","TITLE":"2013 Other Medical Expenses File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2015-06-19T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2013","YEAR":"2013","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2013 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information on the purchase of and expenditures for medical equipment, supplies, glasses and other medical items for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilization and expenditures associated with medical items during the 2013 calendar year. This file consists of 2013 data obtained in the 2013 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 17, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2013 portion of round 3 for Panel 18 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2013).","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-160C 2013 Other Medical Expenses File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":414,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-178I","TITLE":"Appendix to MEPS 2015 Event Files","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2017-08-25T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2015","YEAR":"2015","DESCRIPTION":"This public use release is one in a series of public use event files drawn from the 2015 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household (HC) and Medical Provider Components (MPC). This release contains 2 data files each of which is provided as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and as a SAS transport file. File 1 is used for linking the MEPS 2015 condition file (HC-180) with the MEPS 2015 event files (HC-178A through HC-178H); File 2 is used for linking the MEPS 2015 prescribed medicines event file (HC-178A) with other 2015 event files. This release also includes one table provided as PDF file: Table 1, the \"MEPS 2015 Condition-Event Frequency\" table contains unweighted and weighted counts of records on the MEPS 2015 event files for each of the condition, procedure and clinical classification codes on the MEPS 2015 condition file.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-178I Appendix to MEPS 2015 Event Files","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":423,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-188B","TITLE":"2016 Dental Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2018-05-18T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2016","YEAR":"2016","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2016 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Dental Visits File provides detailed information on dental events for a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the 2016 calendar year. This file consists of 2016 data obtained in the 2016 portion of round 3, and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 20, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2016 portion of round 3 for Panel 21 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2016), and contains variables pertaining to household reported dental visits. The file includes the date of the dental event, type of provider seen, if the visit was due to an accident, reason for the dental event, and whether or not medicines were prescribed.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-188B: 2016 Dental Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":552,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-239I","TITLE":"Appendix to MEPS 2022 Event Files","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2024-08-23T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2022","YEAR":"2022","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of public use event files drawn from the 2022 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC) and Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the Appendix to MEPS 2022 Event Files, or Conditions-Event Link (CLNK) File, is used for linking the MEPS 2022 Medical Conditions File (HC-241) with the MEPS 2022 Event Files (HC-239A, and HC-239D through HC-239H). The file contains data collected during Rounds 7-9 of Panel 24, Rounds 3-5 of Panel 26, and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 27 of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), corresponding to the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2022. \n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-239I: Appendix to MEPS 2022 Event Files","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":369,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-160A","TITLE":"2013 Prescribed Medicines File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2015-08-21T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2013","YEAR":"2013","DESCRIPTION":"\nThis file is one in a series of public use event files from the 2013 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC) and Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII data file and SAS transport file (with SAS, STATA, and SPSS user statements) this public use file provides detailed information on household-reported prescribed medicines for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of prescribed medicine utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2013. Each record represents one household-reported prescribed medicine that was purchased during calendar year 2013. These data were collected during the 2013 portion of Round 3 and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 17, as well as Rounds 1, 2 and the 2013 portion of Round 3 for Panel 18 of the MEPS HC. Each record on this event file represents a unique prescribed medicine event; that is, a prescribed medicine reported as being purchased or otherwise obtained by the household respondent, and includes the following: an identifier for each unique prescribed medicine; detailed characteristics associated with the event (e.g., national drug code (NDC), medicine name, etc.); selected Multum Lexicon variables; conditions, if any, associated with the medicine; the date on which the person first used the medicine; total expenditure and sources of payments; types of pharmacies that filled the household's prescriptions; and a full-year person level weight.

⚠ A problem was discovered with the linking between the MEPS Prescribed Medicines files and the Cerner Multum file that resulted in some incorrect therapeutic classes being assigned. The Multum Lexicon Addendum files (HC-068) contain the corrected therapeutic classes. Analysts should use caution when using the Cerner Multum therapeutic class variables for analysis and should always check for accuracy, because the Multum classification has been changed by the addition of new classes and subclasses, and by changes in the hierarchy of classes. See the documentation for the Multum Lexicon Addendum files for examples.

The Multum Lexicon Addendum files (HC-068) also contain an additional variable not in the 1996 through 2012 MEPS Prescribed Medicines files: the generic name of the drug most commonly used by prescribing physicians.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-160A 2013 Prescribed Medicines File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":350,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-152A","TITLE":"2012 Prescribed Medicines File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2014-08-22T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2012","YEAR":"2012","DESCRIPTION":"\nThis file is one in a series of public use event files from the 2012 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC) and Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII data file and SAS transport file (with SAS, STATA, and SPSS user statements) this public use file provides detailed information on household-reported prescribed medicines for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of prescribed medicine utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2012. Each record represents one household-reported prescribed medicine that was purchased during calendar year 2012. These data were collected during the 2012 portion of Round 3 and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 16, as well as Rounds 1, 2 and the 2012 portion of Round 3 for Panel 17 of the MEPS HC. Each record on this event file represents a unique prescribed medicine event; that is, a prescribed medicine reported as being purchased or otherwise obtained by the household respondent, and includes the following: an identifier for each unique prescribed medicine; detailed characteristics associated with the event (e.g., national drug code (NDC), medicine name, etc.); selected Multum Lexicon variables; conditions, if any, associated with the medicine; the date on which the person first used the medicine; total expenditure and sources of payments; types of pharmacies that filled the household's prescriptions; and a full-year person level weight.

⚠ A problem was discovered with the linking between the MEPS Prescribed Medicines files and the Cerner Multum file that resulted in some incorrect therapeutic classes being assigned. The Multum Lexicon Addendum files (HC-068) contain the corrected therapeutic classes. Analysts should use caution when using the Cerner Multum therapeutic class variables for analysis and should always check for accuracy, because the Multum classification has been changed by the addition of new classes and subclasses, and by changes in the hierarchy of classes. See the documentation for the Multum Lexicon Addendum files for examples.

The Multum Lexicon Addendum files (HC-068) also contain an additional variable not in the 1996 through 2012 MEPS Prescribed Medicines files: the generic name of the drug most commonly used by prescribing physicians.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-152A 2012 Prescribed Medicines File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":494,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-213I","TITLE":"Appendix to MEPS 2019 Event Files","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2021-08-27T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2019","YEAR":"2019","DESCRIPTION":"This public use release is one in a series of public use event files drawn from the 2019 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household (HC) and Medical Provider Components (MPC). This release contains two data files, the condition-event link file (CLNK) and the prescribed medicines-event link file (RXLK), both of which are provided in ASCII (with related SAS, SPSS, R, and Stata programming statements and data user information) and SAS data set, SAS transport file, Stata data set, and Excel file versions. File 1, the H213IFI or CLNK file, is used for linking the MEPS 2019 Conditions file (HC-214) with the MEPS 2019 event files (HC-213A through HC-213H); File 2, the H213IF2 or RXLK file, is used for linking the MEPS 2019 prescribed medicines event file (HC-213A) with other MEPS 2019 event files. For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-213I: Appendix to MEPS 2019 Event Files","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":334,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-144A","TITLE":"2011 Prescribed Medicines File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2013-08-20T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2011","YEAR":"2011","DESCRIPTION":"\nThis file is one in a series of public use event files from the 2011 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC) and Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII data file and SAS transport file (with SAS, STATA, and SPSS user statements) this public use file provides detailed information on household-reported prescribed medicines for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of prescribed medicine utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2011. Each record represents one household-reported prescribed medicine that was purchased during calendar year 2011. These data were collected during the 2011 portion of Round 3 and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 15, as well as Rounds 1, 2 and the 2011 portion of Round 3 for Panel 16 of the MEPS HC. Each record on this event file represents a unique prescribed medicine event; that is, a prescribed medicine reported as being purchased or otherwise obtained by the household respondent, and includes the following: an identifier for each unique prescribed medicine; detailed characteristics associated with the event (e.g., national drug code (NDC), medicine name, etc.); selected Multum Lexicon variables; conditions, if any, associated with the medicine; the date on which the person first used the medicine; total expenditure and sources of payments; types of pharmacies that filled the household's prescriptions; and a full-year person level weight.

⚠ A problem was discovered with the linking between the MEPS Prescribed Medicines files and the Cerner Multum file that resulted in some incorrect therapeutic classes being assigned. The Multum Lexicon Addendum files (HC-068) contain the corrected therapeutic classes. Analysts should use caution when using the Cerner Multum therapeutic class variables for analysis and should always check for accuracy, because the Multum classification has been changed by the addition of new classes and subclasses, and by changes in the hierarchy of classes. See the documentation for the Multum Lexicon Addendum files for examples.

The Multum Lexicon Addendum files (HC-068) also contain an additional variable not in the 1996 through 2012 MEPS Prescribed Medicines files: the generic name of the drug most commonly used by prescribing physicians.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-144A 2011 Prescribed Medicines File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":143,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-059H","TITLE":"2001 Home Health File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2003-12-24T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2001","YEAR":"2001","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2001 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Household-reported information on expenditures for home health visits including the type of provider, type of services received, length of the visit, reason for the visit, expenditures, and sources of payment. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information on home health care for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilization and expenditures associated with home health care during the 2001 calendar year. This file consists of 2001 data obtained in the 2001 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 5, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2001 portion of round 3 for Panel 6 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2001).

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-072: 2001 and 2002 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-059H 2001 Home Health","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":300,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-126A","TITLE":"2009 Prescribed Medicines File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2011-09-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2009","YEAR":"2009","DESCRIPTION":"\nThis file is one in a series of public use event files from the 2009 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC) and Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII data file and SAS transport file (with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) this public use file provides detailed information on household-reported prescribed medicines for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of prescribed medicine utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2009. Each record represents one household-reported prescribed medicine that was purchased during calendar year 2009. These data were collected during the 2009 portion of Round 3 and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 13, as well as Rounds 1, 2 and the 2009 portion of Round 3 for Panel 14 of the MEPS HC. Each record on this event file represents a unique prescribed medicine event; that is, a prescribed medicine reported as being purchased or otherwise obtained by the household respondent, and includes the following: an identifier for each unique prescribed medicine; detailed characteristics associated with the event (e.g., national drug code (NDC), medicine name, etc.); selected Multum Lexicon variables; conditions, if any, associated with the medicine; the date on which the person first used the medicine; total expenditure and sources of payments; types of pharmacies that filled the household's prescriptions; and a full-year person level weight.

⚠ A problem was discovered with the linking between the MEPS Prescribed Medicines files and the Cerner Multum file that resulted in some incorrect therapeutic classes being assigned. The Multum Lexicon Addendum files (HC-068) contain the corrected therapeutic classes. Analysts should use caution when using the Cerner Multum therapeutic class variables for analysis and should always check for accuracy, because the Multum classification has been changed by the addition of new classes and subclasses, and by changes in the hierarchy of classes. See the documentation for the Multum Lexicon Addendum files for examples.

The Multum Lexicon Addendum files (HC-068) also contain an additional variable not in the 1996 through 2012 MEPS Prescribed Medicines files: the generic name of the drug most commonly used by prescribing physicians.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-126A 2009 Prescribed Medicines","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":503,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-220A","TITLE":"2020 Prescribed Medicines File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2022-07-29T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2020","YEAR":"2020","DESCRIPTION":"This file is one in a series of public use event files from the 2020 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC) and Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII data file, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file (with SAS, STATA, SPSS, and R user statements), this public use file provides detailed information on household-reported prescribed medicines for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of prescribed medicine utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2020. Each record represents one household-reported prescribed medicine that was purchased during calendar year 2020. These data were collected in Rounds 6-7 for Panel 23, Rounds 3-5 for Panel 24, and Rounds 1-3 for Panel 25 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2020). This year, 2020, is the first data year to include three panels of data; Panel 23 was extended to include Rounds 6 and 7. Each record on this event file represents a unique prescribed medicine event; that is, a prescribed medicine reported as being purchased or otherwise obtained by the household respondent, and includes the following: an identifier for each unique prescribed medicine; detailed characteristics associated with the event (e.g., national drug code (NDC), medicine name, etc.); selected Multum Lexicon variables; the date on which the person first used the medicine; total expenditure and sources of payments; types of pharmacies that filled the household's prescriptions; and a full-year person level weight. \n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-220A: 2020 Prescribed Medicines File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":249,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-102A","TITLE":"2006 Prescribed Medicines File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2008-10-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2006","YEAR":"2006","DESCRIPTION":"\nThis file is one in a series of public use event files from the 2006 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC) and Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII data file and SAS transport file (with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) this public use file provides detailed information on household-reported prescribed medicines for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of prescribed medicine utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2006. Each record represents one household-reported prescribed medicine that was purchased during calendar year 2006. These data were collected during the 2006 portion of Round 3 and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 10, as well as Rounds 1, 2 and the 2006 portion of Round 3 for Panel 11 of the MEPS HC. Each record on this event file represents a unique prescribed medicine event; that is, a prescribed medicine reported as being purchased or otherwise obtained by the household respondent, and includes the following: an identifier for each unique prescribed medicine; detailed characteristics associated with the event (e.g., national drug code (NDC), medicine name, etc.); selected Multum Lexicon variables; conditions, if any, associated with the medicine; the date on which the person first used the medicine; total expenditure and sources of payments; types of pharmacies that filled the household's prescriptions; and a full-year person level weight.

⚠ A problem was discovered with the linking between the MEPS Prescribed Medicines files and the Cerner Multum file that resulted in some incorrect therapeutic classes being assigned. The Multum Lexicon Addendum files (HC-068) contain the corrected therapeutic classes. Analysts should use caution when using the Cerner Multum therapeutic class variables for analysis and should always check for accuracy, because the Multum classification has been changed by the addition of new classes and subclasses, and by changes in the hierarchy of classes. See the documentation for the Multum Lexicon Addendum files for examples.

The Multum Lexicon Addendum files (HC-068) also contain an additional variable not in the 1996 through 2012 MEPS Prescribed Medicines files: the generic name of the drug most commonly used by prescribing physicians.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-102A 2006 Prescribed Medicines","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":474,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-206I","TITLE":"Appendix to MEPS 2018 Event Files","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2020-08-28T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2018","YEAR":"2018","DESCRIPTION":"This public use release is one in a series of public use event files drawn from the 2018 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household (HC) and Medical Provider Components (MPC). This release contains 2 data files each of which is provided as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file. File 1 is used for linking the MEPS 2018 condition file (HC-207) with the MEPS 2018 event files (HC-206A through HC-206H); File 2 is used for linking the MEPS 2018 prescribed medicines event file (HC-206A) with other 2018 event files. This release also includes one table provided as PDF file: Table 1, the \"MEPS 2018 Condition-Event Frequency\" table contains unweighted and weighted counts of records on the MEPS 2018 event files for each of the ICD-10 condition codes and each of the Clinical Classification Software Refined (CCSR) codes on the MEPS 2018 condition file.\n

Starting in 2018, instead of the XPORT engine, the CPORT procedure is used to create MEPS Public Use Files (PUFS) \nin transport format (excluding the 2018 Point-in-Time file, HC-036, and HC-036BRR). These CPORT data files \n(.ssp) cannot be read directly into R or Stata at this time. The ASCII (.dat) data file format can be used \ninstead, along with the corresponding instructions found in the 'Programming Statements' files. In addition, \nSAS users must use the CIMPORT procedure to restore the transport files (.ssp) into SAS data sets. For more \ndetails on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the \n MEPS GitHub page\n \"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-206I: Appendix to MEPS 2018 Event Files","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":506,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-220H","TITLE":"2020 Home Health File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2022-08-12T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2020","YEAR":"2020","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2020 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). The Home Health File contains household-reported information on home health visits including the type of provider, type of services received, length of the visit, reason for the visit, expenditures, and sources of payment. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements and in a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, this public use file provides information on home health care for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilizations and expenditures associated with home health care during the 2020 calendar year. This file consists of MEPS survey data obtained Rounds 6-7 for Panel 23, Rounds 3-5 for Panel 24, and Rounds 1-3 for Panel 25 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2020). This year, 2020, is the first data year to include three panels of data; Panel 23 was extended to include Rounds 6 and 7.\n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-220H: 2020 Home Health File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":504,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-220B","TITLE":"2020 Dental Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2022-08-12T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2020","YEAR":"2020","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2020 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the Dental Visits File provides detailed information on dental events for a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the 2020 calendar year. This file consists of MEPS survey data obtained in Rounds 6-7 for Panel 23, Rounds 3-5 for Panel 24, and Rounds 1-3 for Panel 25 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2020). This year, 2020, is the first data year to include three panels of data; Panel 23 was extended to include Rounds 6 and 7. Each dental event record includes the following: date of the dental event, type of provider seen, procedure(s) associated with the dental event; flat fee information; imputed sources of payment; total payment and total charge of the dental event expenditure, and a full-year person-level weight.\n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-220B: 2020 Dental Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":505,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-220C","TITLE":"2020 Other Medical Expenses File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2022-08-12T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2020","YEAR":"2020","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2020 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, this public use file provides information on the purchase of and expenditures for visual aids, medical equipment, supplies, and other medical items for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilization and expenditures associated with medical items during the 2020 calendar year. This file consists of MEPS survey data obtained in Rounds 6-7 for Panel 23, Rounds 3-5 for Panel 24, and Rounds 1-3 for Panel 25 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2020). This year, 2020, is the first data year to include three panels of data; Panel 23 was extended to include Rounds 6 and 7. The Other Medical event file contains one record for each type of medical item reported as being purchased or otherwise obtained by a household member during the specified reference period.\n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-220C: 2020 Other Medical Expenses File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":24,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-016A","TITLE":"1997 Prescribed Medicines File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2001-06-04T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1997","YEAR":"1997","DESCRIPTION":"\nThis file is one in a series of public use event files from the 1997 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC) and Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII data file and SAS transport file, this public use file provides detailed information on household-reported prescribed medicines for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of prescribed medicine utilization and expenditures for calendar year 1997. Each record represents one household-reported prescribed medicine that was purchased or obtained during calendar year 1997. These data were collected during the 1997 portion of Round 3, and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 1, as well as Rounds 1, 2 and the 1997 portion of Round 3 for Panel 2. Each record on this event file represents a unique prescribed medicine event; that is, a prescribed medicine reported as being purchased or otherwise obtained by the household respondent, and includes the following: an identifier for each unique prescribed medicine; detailed characteristics associated with the event (e.g., national drug code (NDC), medicine name, etc.); conditions, if any, associated with the medicine; the date on which the person first used the medicine; total expenditure and sources of payments; types of pharmacies that filled the household's prescriptions; whether the prescription is one in which the household received a free sample of it during the round; and a full-year person-level weight.
For more information, see MEPS HC-029: 1997 MEPS HC Survey Data.

⚠ A problem was discovered with the linking between the MEPS Prescribed Medicines files and the Cerner Multum file that resulted in some incorrect therapeutic classes being assigned. The Multum Lexicon Addendum files (HC-068) contain the corrected therapeutic classes. Analysts should use caution when using the Cerner Multum therapeutic class variables for analysis and should always check for accuracy, because the Multum classification has been changed by the addition of new classes and subclasses, and by changes in the hierarchy of classes. See the documentation for the Multum Lexicon Addendum files for examples.

The Multum Lexicon Addendum files (HC-068) also contain an additional variable not in the 1996 through 2012 MEPS Prescribed Medicines files: the generic name of the drug most commonly used by prescribing physicians.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 01-DP07","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-016A 1997 Prescribed Medicines","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":523,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-229D","TITLE":"2021 Hospital Inpatient Stays File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2023-06-23T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2021","YEAR":"2021","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2021 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA and R programming statements, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the Hospital Inpatient Stays File provides detailed information on hospital inpatient stays. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of inpatient hospital stay utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2021. Each record comprises data for one household-reported inpatient hospital stay collected during the 2021 portion of Round 7, and all of Rounds 8 and 9 for Panel 23; the 2021 portion of Rounds 5 and 7, and all of Round 6 for Panel 24; the 2021 portion of Round 3 and all of Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 25; and Rounds 1, 2, and the 2021 portion of Round 3 for Panel 26 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering the calendar year 2021). This year, 2021, is the first data year to include four panels of data. Because of concerns about lower response rates due to COVID-19, Panels 23 and 24 were extended to include 9 rounds of data collection; data for Rounds 7, 8, and 9 for Panel 23 and Rounds 5, 6, and 7 for Panel 24 are included in the 2021 data files. The Hospital Inpatient Stays File contains data on several characteristics associated with each hospital inpatient stay, including the start and ends dates for the hospital inpatient stay, the number of nights spent in the hospital, the reason for admittance, whether or not a doctor was seen, types of services received, medicines prescribed at discharge, expenditures, and sources of payment. To append person-level information such as demographic or health insurance coverage to each event record, data from this file can be merged with the 2021 MEPS HC Full-Year Consolidated file using the person identifier, DUPERSID. \n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-229D: 2021 Hospital Inpatient Stays File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":524,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-229E","TITLE":"2021 Emergency Room Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2023-06-23T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2021","YEAR":"2021","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2021 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA, and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the Emergency Room Visits file provides detailed information on emergency room visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of emergency room utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2021. Each record comprises data for one household-reported emergency room visit collected during the 2021 portion of Round 7, and all of Rounds 8 and 9 for Panel 23; the 2021 portion of Rounds 5 and 7, and all of Round 6 for Panel 24; the 2021 portion of Round 3 and all of Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 25; and Rounds 1, 2, and the 2021 portion of Round 3 for Panel 26 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering the calendar year 2021). This year, 2021, is the first data year to include four panels of data. Because of concerns about lower response rates due to COVID-19, Panels 23 and 24 were extended to include 9 rounds of data collection; data for Rounds 7, 8, and 9 for Panel 23 and Rounds 5, 6, and 7 for Panel 24 are included in the 2021 data files. The Emergency Room Visits File contains data on several characteristics associated with each emergency room visit, including date of the visit, whether or not a doctor was seen, types of care and services received, types of medicine prescribed during the visit, expenditures, and sources of payment. To append person-level information such as demographic or health insurance coverage to each event record, data from this file can be merged with the 2021 MEPS HC Full-Year Consolidated file using the person identifier, DUPERSID. \n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-229E: 2021 Emergency Room Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":11,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-010B","TITLE":"1996 Dental Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2000-07-28T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1996","YEAR":"1996","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Dental Visits File provides detailed information on dental events for a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the 1996 calendar year. This file consists of 1996 data obtained in Panel 1, Rounds 1, 2, and 3 of the survey and contains variables pertaining to household reported dental visits, including the date of the dental event, type of provider seen, if the visit was due to an accident, reason for the dental event, condition(s) and procedure(s) associated with the dental event; and whether or not medicines were prescribed.

The Dental Visits Public Use Data File consists of 2 event-level data files. File 1 contains characteristics associated with the dental event and imputed expenditure data. File 2 contains pre-imputed expenditure data.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-014: 1996 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 01-DP05","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-010B 1996 Dental Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":561,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-248B","TITLE":"2023 Dental Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2025-05-30T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2023","YEAR":"2023","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file one in a series of public use event files from the 2023 MEPS HC.\n\tIt was released as an ASCII data file (with related SAS, SPSS, R, and Stata programming\n\tstatements and data user information) and as a SAS dataset, a SAS transport file, a Stata dataset,\n\tand an Excel file. The 2023 Dental Visits Public Use File (hereafter referred to as the Dental\n\tPUF), provides detailed information on dental events from a nationally representative sample of\n\tthe U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized population. Data from the Dental PUF can be used to make\n\testimates of dental event utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2023. This file contains\n\t47 variables and has a logical record length of 233 with an additional 2-byte carriage return/line\n\tfeed at the end of each record. This PUF consists of MEPS survey data obtained in the 2023\n\tportion of Round 3, and all of Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 27; and Rounds 1, 2, and the 2023\n\tportion of Round 3 for Panel 28 (i.e., the rounds for MEPS panels covering calendar year 2023).\n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-248B: 2023 Dental Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":562,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-248C","TITLE":"2023 Other Medical Expenses File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2025-05-30T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2023","YEAR":"2023","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of public use event files from the 2023 MEPS HC.\n\tIt was released as an ASCII data file (with related SAS, SPSS, R, and Stata programming\n\tstatements and data user information) and as a SAS dataset, a SAS transport file, a Stata dataset,\n\tand an Excel file. The 2023 Other Medical Expenses public use event file (hereafter referred to\n\tas the OME PUF) provides information on the purchases of and expenditures for visual aids,\n\tmedical equipment, supplies, and other medical items for a nationally representative sample of\n\tthe U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized population. Data from the OME PUF can be used to make\n\testimates of the Other Medical event expenditures associated with medical items for the calendar\n\tyear 2023. The purchase of medical equipment, supplies, and other medical items is based\n\tentirely on household reports. They were not included in the Medical Provider Component\n\t(MPC); therefore, all expenditure and payment data on the OME PUF are reported by the\n\thousehold.\n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-248C: 2023 Other Medical Expenses File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":563,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-248H","TITLE":"2023 Home Health File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2025-05-30T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2023","YEAR":"2023","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of public use event files from the 2023 MEPS HC\n\tand MPC. It was released as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, R, and Stata programming\n\tstatements and data user information) and as a SAS dataset, SAS transport file, Stata dataset, and\n\tExcel file. The 2023 Home Health Visits Public Use File (hereafter referred to as the HHV PUF)\n\tprovides detailed information on home health events for a nationally representative sample of the\n\tU.S. civilian noninstitutionalized population. Data from the HHV PUF can be used to make\n\testimates of home health (HH) event utilization and expenditures for the calendar year 2023. The\n\tPUF contains 51 variables and has a logical record length of 201 with an additional 2-byte\n\tcarriage return/line feed at the end of each record. This file consists of MEPS survey data\n\tobtained in the 2023 portion of Round 3 and all of Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 27 and Rounds 1\n\tand 2, and the 2023 portion of Round 3 for Panel 28 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels\n\tcovering the calendar year 2023).\n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-248H: 2023 Home Health File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":27,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-016D","TITLE":"1997 Hospital Inpatient Stays File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2001-03-19T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1997","YEAR":"1997","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 1997 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC) and the Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Hospital Inpatient Stays File provides detailed information on hospital inpatient stays. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of inpatient hospital stay utilization and expenditures for calendar year 1997. Each record represents one, household-reported, inpatient hospital stay reported during the 1997 portion of round 3, and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 1, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 1997 portion of round 3 for Panel 2 of the survey.

The Hospital Inpatient Stays Public Use Data File consists of 2 event-level data files. File 1 contains characteristics associated with the hospital inpatient stay event such as: the date of the hospital inpatient stay, reason for the stay, types of services received, condition(s) and procedure(s) associated with the hospital inpatient stay, whether or not medicines were prescribed, and imputed expenditure data. File 2 contains pre-imputed and unimputed expenditure data.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-029: 1997 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 01-DP07","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-016D 1997 Hospital Inpatient Stays","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":525,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-229F","TITLE":"2021 Outpatient Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2023-06-23T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2021","YEAR":"2021","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2021 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA, and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the Outpatient Visits File provides detailed information on outpatient visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of outpatient utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2021. Each record comprises data for one household-reported outpatient visit collected during the 2021 portion of Round 7, and all of Rounds 8 and 9 for Panel 23; the 2021 portion of Rounds 5 and 7, and all of Round 6 for Panel 24; the 2021 portion of Round 3 and all of Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 25; and Rounds 1, 2, and the 2021 portion of Round 3 for Panel 26 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering the calendar year 2021). This year, 2021, is the first data year to include four panels of data. Because of concerns about lower response rates due to COVID-19, Panels 23 and 24 were extended to include 9 rounds of data collection; data for Rounds 7, 8, and 9 for Panel 23 and Rounds 5, 6, and 7 for Panel 24 are included in the 2021 data files. The Outpatient Visits File contains data on several characteristics associated with each outpatient visit, including the date of the visit, whether or not a doctor was seen, types of care and services received, medicines prescribed during the visit, expenditures, and sources of payment. To append person-level information such as demographic or health insurance coverage to each event record, data from this file can be merged with the 2021 MEPS HC Full-Year Consolidated file using the person identifier, DUPERSID.\n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-229F: 2021 Outpatient Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":526,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-229G","TITLE":"2021 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2023-06-23T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2021","YEAR":"2021","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2021 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the Office-Based Medical Provider Visits File provides detailed information on office-based medical provider visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of office-based medical provider utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2021. Each record comprises data for one household-reported office-based medical provider visit collected during the 2021 portion of Round 7, and all of Rounds 8 and 9 for Panel 23; the 2021 portion of Rounds 5 and 7, and all of Round 6 for Panel 24; the 2021 portion of Round 3 and all of Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 25; and Rounds 1, 2, and the 2021 portion of Round 3 for Panel 26 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering the calendar year 2021). This year, 2021, is the first data year to include four panels of data. Because of concerns about lower response rates due to COVID-19, Panels 23 and 24 were extended to include 9 rounds of data collection; data for Rounds 7, 8, and 9 for Panel 23 and Rounds 5, 6, and 7 for Panel 24 are included in the 2021 data files. The Office-Based Medical Provider File contains data on several characteristics associated with each office-based visit, including date of the visit, type of provider seen, types of care and services received, medicines prescribed, expenditures, and sources of payment. To append person-level information such as demographic or health insurance coverage to each event record, data from this file can be merged with the 2021 MEPS HC Full-Year Consolidated file using the person identifier, DUPERSID. \n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-229G: 2021 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":13,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-010D","TITLE":"1996 Hospital Inpatient Stays File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2000-07-31T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1996","YEAR":"1996","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files from the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC) and the Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII data file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and as a SAS transport file, the Hospital Inpatient Stays File provides detailed information on 1996 household-reported hospital inpatient stays collected in Panel 1, Rounds 1, 2, and 3 of the survey. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilization and expenditures associated with hospital inpatient stays in 1996.

The Hospital Inpatient Stays Public Use Data File consists of 2 event-level data files. File 1 contains characteristics associated with the hospital inpatient stay event such as: the date of the hospital inpatient stay, reason for the stay, types of services received, condition(s) and procedure(s) associated with the hospital inpatient stay, and whether or not medicines were prescribed; and imputed expenditure data. File 2 contains pre-imputed and unimputed expenditure data.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-014: 1996 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 01-DP05","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-010D 1996 Hospital Inpatient Stays","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":482,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-213B","TITLE":"2019 Dental Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2021-05-28T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2019","YEAR":"2019","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2019 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the Dental Visits File provides detailed information on dental events for a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the 2019 calendar year. This file consists of MEPS survey data obtained in the 2019 portion of Round 3, and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 23, as well as Rounds 1, 2, and the 2019 portion of Round 3 for Panel 24 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2019). Each dental event record includes the following: year and month of the dental event, type of provider seen, procedure(s) associated with the dental event; flat fee information; imputed sources of payment; total payment and total charge of the dental event expenditure, and a full-year person-level weight. For more \ndetails on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the \n MEPS GitHub page\n \"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-213B: 2019 Dental Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":483,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-213H","TITLE":"2019 Home Health File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2021-05-28T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2019","YEAR":"2019","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2019 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). The Home Health File contains household-reported information on home health visits including the type of provider, type of services received, length of the visit, reason for the visit, expenditures, and sources of payment. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements and in a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, this public use file provides information on home health care for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilizations and expenditures associated with home health care during the 2019 calendar year. This file consists of MEPS survey data obtained in the 2019 portion of Round 3, and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 23, as well as Rounds 1, 2, and the 2019 portion of round 3 for Panel 24 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2019). Each home health record includes the following: the month the provider visited the household; type of provider; types of services provided and if this was a repeat event; whether or not care was received due to hospitalization; whether or not a person was taught how to use medical equipment; imputed sources of payment, total payment, and total charge for the home health event expenditure; and a full-year person-level weight. For more \ndetails on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the \n MEPS GitHub page\n \"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-213H: 2019 Home Health File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":29,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-016F","TITLE":"1997 Outpatient Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2001-03-16T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1997","YEAR":"1997","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 1997 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC) and the Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Outpatient Visits File provides detailed information on outpatient visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the

civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of outpatient utilization and expenditures for calendar year 1997. Each record represents one, household-reported, outpatient visit reported during the 1997 portion of round 3, and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 1, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 1997 portion of round 3 for Panel 2 of the survey.

The Outpatient Visits Public Use Data File consists of 2 event-level data files. File 1 contains characteristics associated with the outpatient visit and imputed expenditure data such as the date of the visit, whether or not a doctor was seen, type of care received, type of services provided, expenditures and sources of payment, and imputed sources of payment. File 2 contains pre-imputed and unimputed expenditure data and is intended for analysts who want to perform their own imputations to handle missing data.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-029: 1997 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 01-DP07","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-016F 1997 Outpatient Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":548,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-239A","TITLE":"2022 Prescribed Medicines File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2024-07-31T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2022","YEAR":"2022","DESCRIPTION":"This file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2022 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC) and Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, this public use file provides detailed information on household-reported prescribed medicines for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of prescribed medicine utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2022. Each record represents one household-reported prescribed medicine that was purchased during calendar year 2022. The Prescribed Medicines File contains data collected in Rounds 7-9 of Panel 24, Rounds 3-5 of Panel 26, and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 27 of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), corresponding to the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2022. Each record on this event file represents a unique prescribed medicine event; that is, a prescribed medicine reported as being purchased or otherwise obtained by the household respondent, and includes the following: an identifier for each unique prescribed medicine; detailed characteristics associated with the event (e.g., national drug code (NDC), medicine name, selected Multum Lexicon variables, etc.); the date on which the person first used the medicine; total expenditure and sources of payments; types of pharmacies that filled the household's prescriptions; and a full- year person-level weight.\n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-239A: 2022 Prescribed Medicines File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":15,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-010F","TITLE":"1996 Outpatient Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2000-07-26T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1996","YEAR":"1996","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of public use event files drawn from the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household (HC) and Medical Provider Components (MPC). Released as an ASCII data file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and as a SAS transport file, the Outpatient Visits File provides detailed information on outpatient visits for a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of outpatient utilization and expenditures for calendar year 1996. Each record on the file represents one household-reported outpatient visit reported during Rounds 1, 2, and 3. Outpatient visits that were reported in Round 3 and were known to have begun after December 31, 1996, are not included on this file.

The Outpatient Visits Public Use Data File consists of 2 event-level data files. File 1 contains characteristics associated with the outpatient visit and imputed expenditure data such as the date of the visit, whether or not a doctor was seen, type of care received, type of services provided, expenditures and sources of payment, and imputed sources of payment. File 2 contains unimputed expenditure data and is intended for analysts who want to perform their own imputations to handle missing data.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-014: 1996 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 01-DP05","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-010F 1996 Outpatient Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":267,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-110A","TITLE":"2007 Prescribed Medicines File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2009-10-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2007","YEAR":"2007","DESCRIPTION":"\nThis file is one in a series of public use event files from the 2007 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC) and Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII data file and SAS transport file (with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) this public use file provides detailed information on household-reported prescribed medicines for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of prescribed medicine utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2007. Each record represents one household-reported prescribed medicine that was purchased during calendar year 2007. These data were collected during the 2007 portion of Round 3 and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 11, as well as Rounds 1, 2 and the 2008 portion of Round 3 for Panel 12 of the MEPS HC. Each record on this event file represents a unique prescribed medicine event; that is, a prescribed medicine reported as being purchased or otherwise obtained by the household respondent, and includes the following: an identifier for each unique prescribed medicine; detailed characteristics associated with the event (e.g., national drug code (NDC), medicine name, etc.); selected Multum Lexicon variables; conditions, if any, associated with the medicine; the date on which the person first used the medicine; total expenditure and sources of payments; types of pharmacies that filled the household's prescriptions; and a full-year person level weight.

⚠ A problem was discovered with the linking between the MEPS Prescribed Medicines files and the Cerner Multum file that resulted in some incorrect therapeutic classes being assigned. The Multum Lexicon Addendum files (HC-068) contain the corrected therapeutic classes. Analysts should use caution when using the Cerner Multum therapeutic class variables for analysis and should always check for accuracy, because the Multum classification has been changed by the addition of new classes and subclasses, and by changes in the hierarchy of classes. See the documentation for the Multum Lexicon Addendum files for examples.

The Multum Lexicon Addendum files (HC-068) also contain an additional variable not in the 1996 through 2012 MEPS Prescribed Medicines files: the generic name of the drug most commonly used by prescribing physicians.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-110A 2007 Prescribed Medicines","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":16,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-010G","TITLE":"1996 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2000-07-28T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1996","YEAR":"1996","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of public use event files drawn from the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household (HC) and Medical Provider Components (MPC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Office-Based Provider Visits File provides detailed information on office-based provider visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of office-based provider utilization and expenditures for calendar year 1996. Each record represents one household-reported office-based provider visit reported during Rounds 1, 2, and 3. Office-based provider visits reported in Round 3 and known to have begun after December 31, 1996, are not included on this file.

The Office-Based Provider Public Use Data File consists of two event-level data files. File 1 contains characteristics associated with the office-based visit, such as, date of the visit, time spent with the provider, types of treatment and services received, types of medicine prescribed, condition codes, expenditures, source of payment associated with the visit and imputed expenditure variables. File 2 contains unimputed expenditure variables and is intended for analysts who want to perform their own imputations to handle missing data.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-014: 1996 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 01-DP05","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-010G 1996 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":283,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-118A","TITLE":"2008 Prescribed Medicines File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2010-10-29T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2008","YEAR":"2008","DESCRIPTION":"\nThis file is one in a series of public use event files from the 2008 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC) and Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII data file and SAS transport file (with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) this public use file provides detailed information on household-reported prescribed medicines for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of prescribed medicine utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2008. Each record represents one household-reported prescribed medicine that was purchased during calendar year 2008. These data were collected during the 2008 portion of Round 3 and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 12, as well as Rounds 1, 2 and the 2008 portion of Round 3 for Panel 13 of the MEPS HC. Each record on this event file represents a unique prescribed medicine event; that is, a prescribed medicine reported as being purchased or otherwise obtained by the household respondent, and includes the following: an identifier for each unique prescribed medicine; detailed characteristics associated with the event (e.g., national drug code (NDC), medicine name, etc.); selected Multum Lexicon variables; conditions, if any, associated with the medicine; the date on which the person first used the medicine; total expenditure and sources of payments; types of pharmacies that filled the household's prescriptions; and a full-year person level weight.

⚠ A problem was discovered with the linking between the MEPS Prescribed Medicines files and the Cerner Multum file that resulted in some incorrect therapeutic classes being assigned. The Multum Lexicon Addendum files (HC-068) contain the corrected therapeutic classes. Analysts should use caution when using the Cerner Multum therapeutic class variables for analysis and should always check for accuracy, because the Multum classification has been changed by the addition of new classes and subclasses, and by changes in the hierarchy of classes. See the documentation for the Multum Lexicon Addendum files for examples.

The Multum Lexicon Addendum files (HC-068) also contain an additional variable not in the 1996 through 2012 MEPS Prescribed Medicines files: the generic name of the drug most commonly used by prescribing physicians.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-118A 2008 Prescribed Medicines","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":17,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-010H","TITLE":"1996 Home Health File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2001-06-06T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1996","YEAR":"1996","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files released from the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC). Released as an ASCII data file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and as a SAS transport file, this file provides information on home health care for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilization and expenditures associated with home health care in 1996. This file consists of 1996 data collected in Panel 1, Rounds 1, 2, and 3 of the survey and includes variables describing home health events, including the type of provider, type of services received, length of the visit, reason for the visit, expenditures, and sources of payment.

This public use data set consists of two event-level data files. File 1 contains characteristics associated with the home health event and imputed expenditure variables. File 2 contains unimputed expenditure variables.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-014: 1996 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 01-DP05","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-010H 1996 Home Health","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":471,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-206A","TITLE":"2018 Prescribed Medicines File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2020-07-31T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2018","YEAR":"2018","DESCRIPTION":"This file is one in a series of public use event files from the 2018 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC) and Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII data file, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file (with SAS, STATA, SPSS, and R user statements) this public use file provides detailed information on household-reported prescribed medicines for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of prescribed medicine utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2018. Each record represents one household-reported prescribed medicine that was purchased during calendar year 2018. These data were collected during the 2018 portion of Round 3 and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 22, as well as Rounds 1, 2 and the 2018 portion of Round 3 for Panel 23 of the MEPS HC. Each record on this event file represents a unique prescribed medicine event; that is, a prescribed medicine reported as being purchased or otherwise obtained by the household respondent, and includes the following: an identifier for each unique prescribed medicine; detailed characteristics associated with the event (e.g., national drug code (NDC), medicine name, etc.); selected Multum Lexicon variables; the date on which the person first used the medicine; total expenditure and sources of payments; types of pharmacies that filled the household's prescriptions; and a full-year person level weight.\n

Starting in 2018, instead of the XPORT engine, the CPORT procedure is used to create MEPS Public Use Files (PUFS) \nin transport format (excluding the 2018 Point-in-Time file, HC-036, and HC-036BRR). These CPORT data files \n(.ssp) cannot be read directly into R or Stata at this time. The ASCII (.dat) data file format can be used \ninstead, along with the corresponding instructions found in the 'Programming Statements' files. In addition, \nSAS users must use the CIMPORT procedure to restore the transport files (.ssp) into SAS data sets. For more \ndetails on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the \n MEPS GitHub page\n \"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-206A: 2018 Prescribed Medicines File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":125,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-051A","TITLE":"2000 Prescribed Medicines File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2003-04-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2000","YEAR":"2000","DESCRIPTION":"\nThis file is one in a series of public use event files from the 2000 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC) and Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII data file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides detailed information on household-reported prescribed medicines for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of prescribed medicine utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2000. Each record represents one household-reported prescribed medicine that was purchased or obtained during calendar year 2000. These data were collected during the 2000 portion of Round 3 and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 4, as well as Rounds 1, 2 and the 2000 portion of Round 3 for Panel 5 of the MEPS HC. Each record on this event file represents a unique prescribed medicine event; that is, a prescribed medicine reported as being purchased or otherwise obtained by the household respondent, and includes the following: an identifier for each unique prescribed medicine; detailed characteristics associated with the event (e.g., national drug code (NDC), medicine name, etc.); conditions, if any, associated with the medicine; the date on which the person first used the medicine; total expenditure and sources of payments; types of pharmacies that filled the household's prescriptions; and a full-year person level weight.
For more information, see MEPS HC-054: 1999 and 2000 MEPS HC Survey Data.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-072: 2001 and 2002 MEPS HC Survey Data.

⚠ A problem was discovered with the linking between the MEPS Prescribed Medicines files and the Cerner Multum file that resulted in some incorrect therapeutic classes being assigned. The Multum Lexicon Addendum files (HC-068) contain the corrected therapeutic classes. Analysts should use caution when using the Cerner Multum therapeutic class variables for analysis and should always check for accuracy, because the Multum classification has been changed by the addition of new classes and subclasses, and by changes in the hierarchy of classes. See the documentation for the Multum Lexicon Addendum files for examples.

The Multum Lexicon Addendum files (HC-068) also contain an additional variable not in the 1996 through 2012 MEPS Prescribed Medicines files: the generic name of the drug most commonly used by prescribing physicians.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 03-DP01","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-051A 2000 Prescribed Medicines","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":468,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-206E","TITLE":"2018 Emergency Room Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2020-06-26T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2018","YEAR":"2018","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2018 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the Emergency Room Visits File provides detailed information on emergency room visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of emergency room utilizations and expenditures for calendar year 2018. Each record represents one household-reported emergency room visit reported during the 2018 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 22, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2018 portion of round 3 for Panel 23 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2018). The Emergency Room Visits Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the emergency room visit, such as, the date of the visit, types of care and services received, types of medicine prescribed during the visit, expenditures, and sources of payment associated with the visit.\n

Starting in 2018, instead of the XPORT engine, the CPORT procedure is used to create MEPS Public Use Files (PUFS) \nin transport format (excluding the 2018 Point-in-Time file, HC-036, and HC-036BRR). These CPORT data files \n(.ssp) cannot be read directly into R or Stata at this time. The ASCII (.dat) data file format can be used \ninstead, along with the corresponding instructions found in the 'Programming Statements' files. In addition, \nSAS users must use the CIMPORT procedure to restore the transport files (.ssp) into SAS data sets. For more \ndetails on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the \n MEPS GitHub page\n \"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-206E: 2018 Emergency Room Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":469,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-206F","TITLE":"2018 Outpatient Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2020-06-26T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2018","YEAR":"2018","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2018 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA and R programming statements SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the Outpatient Visits File provides detailed information on outpatient visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of outpatient utilizations and expenditures for calendar year 2018. Each record represents one household-reported outpatient visit reported during the 2018 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 22, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2018 portion of round 3 for Panel 23 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2018). The Outpatient Visits Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the outpatient visit such as the date of the visit, whether or not a doctor was seen, type of care received, type of services provided, expenditures, and sources of payment.\n

Starting in 2018, instead of the XPORT engine, the CPORT procedure is used to create MEPS Public Use Files (PUFS) \nin transport format (excluding the 2018 Point-in-Time file, HC-036, and HC-036BRR). These CPORT data files \n(.ssp) cannot be read directly into R or Stata at this time. The ASCII (.dat) data file format can be used \ninstead, along with the corresponding instructions found in the 'Programming Statements' files. In addition, \nSAS users must use the CIMPORT procedure to restore the transport files (.ssp) into SAS data sets. For more \ndetails on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the \n MEPS GitHub page\n \"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-206F: 2018 Outpatient Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":280,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-118D","TITLE":"2008 Hospital Inpatient Stays File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2010-09-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2008","YEAR":"2008","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2008 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Hospital Inpatient Stays File provides detailed information on hospital inpatient stays. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of inpatient hospital stay utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2008. Each record represents one, household-reported, inpatient hospital stay reported during the 2008 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 12, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2008 portion of round 3 for Panel 13 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2008). The Hospital Inpatient Stays Public Use Data File is an event-level data file containing characteristics associated with the hospital inpatient stay event such as: the date of the hospital inpatient stay, reason for the stay, types of services received, condition(s) and procedure(s) associated with the hospital inpatient stay, whether or not medicines were prescribed and imputed expenditure data.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-118D 2008 Hospital Inpatient Stays File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":282,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-118F","TITLE":"2008 Outpatient Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2010-09-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2008","YEAR":"2008","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2008 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Outpatient Visits File provides detailed information on outpatient visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of outpatient utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2008. Each record represents one, household-reported, outpatient visit reported during the 2008 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 12, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2008 portion of round 3 for Panel 13 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2008). The Outpatient Visits Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the outpatient visit and imputed expenditure data such as the date of the visit, whether or not a doctor was seen, type of care received, type of services provided, expenditures and sources of payment, and imputed sources of payment.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-118F 2008 Outpatient Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":511,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-220I","TITLE":"Appendix to MEPS 2020 Event Files","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2022-08-26T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2020","YEAR":"2020","DESCRIPTION":"This public use release is one in a series of public use event files drawn from the 2020 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household (HC) and Medical Provider Components (MPC). This release contains two data files, the condition-event link file (CLNK) and the prescribed medicines-event link file (RXLK), both of which are provided in ASCII (with related SAS, SPSS, R, and Stata programming statements and data user information) and SAS data set, SAS transport file, Stata data set, and Excel file versions. File 1, the H220IFI or CLNK file, is used for linking the MEPS 2020 Conditions file (HC-222) with the MEPS 2020 event files (HC-220A through HC-220H); File 2, the H220IF2 or RXLK file, is used for linking the MEPS 2020 prescribed medicines event file (HC-220A) with other MEPS 2020 event files. The file contains data collected in Rounds 6-7 for Panel 23, Rounds 3-5 for Panel 24, and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 25 of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2020). This year, 2020, is the first data year to include three panels of data; Panel 23 was extended to include Rounds 6 and 7. \n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-220I: Appendix to MEPS 2020 Event Files","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":149,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-059A","TITLE":"2001 Prescribed Medicines File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2004-02-26T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2001","YEAR":"2001","DESCRIPTION":"\nThis file is one in a series of public use event files from the 2001 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC) and Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII data file and SAS transport file (with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) this public use file provides detailed information on household-reported prescribed medicines for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of prescribed medicine utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2001. Each record represents one household-reported prescribed medicine that was purchased or obtained during calendar year 2001. These data were collected during the 2001 portion of Round 3 and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 5, as well as Rounds 1, 2 and the 2001 portion of Round 3 for Panel 6 of the MEPS HC. Each record on this event file represents a unique prescribed medicine event; that is, a prescribed medicine reported as being purchased or otherwise obtained by the household respondent, and includes the following: an identifier for each unique prescribed medicine; detailed characteristics associated with the event (e.g., national drug code (NDC), medicine name, etc.); conditions, if any, associated with the medicine; the date on which the person first used the medicine; total expenditure and sources of payments; types of pharmacies that filled the household's prescriptions; and a full-year person level weight.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-072: 2001 and 2002 MEPS HC Survey Data.

⚠ A problem was discovered with the linking between the MEPS Prescribed Medicines files and the Cerner Multum file that resulted in some incorrect therapeutic classes being assigned. The Multum Lexicon Addendum files (HC-068) contain the corrected therapeutic classes. Analysts should use caution when using the Cerner Multum therapeutic class variables for analysis and should always check for accuracy, because the Multum classification has been changed by the addition of new classes and subclasses, and by changes in the hierarchy of classes. See the documentation for the Multum Lexicon Addendum files for examples.

The Multum Lexicon Addendum files (HC-068) also contain an additional variable not in the 1996 through 2012 MEPS Prescribed Medicines files: the generic name of the drug most commonly used by prescribing physicians.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-059A 2001 Prescribed Medicines","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":520,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-229B","TITLE":"2021 Dental Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2023-05-26T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2021","YEAR":"2021","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2021 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the Dental Visits File provides detailed information on dental events for a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the 2021 calendar year. This file consists of MEPS survey data obtained in the 2021 portion of Round 7, and all of Rounds 8 and 9 for Panel 23; the 2021 portion of Rounds 5 and 7, and all of Round 6 for Panel 24; the 2021 portion of Round 3, and all of Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 25; and Rounds 1, 2, and the 2021 portion of Round 3 for Panel 26 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2021). This year, 2021, is the first data year to include four panels of data. Because of concerns about lower response rates due to COVID-19, Panels 23 and 24 were extended to include 9 rounds of data collection; data for Rounds 7, 8, and 9 for Panel 23 and Rounds 5, 6, and 7 for Panel 24 are included in the 2021 data files. Each dental event record includes the following: date of the dental event; type of provider seen; procedure(s) associated with the dental event; flat fee information; imputed sources of payment; total payment and total charge of the dental event expenditure; and a full-year person-level weight. To append person-level information such as demographic or health insurance coverage to each event record, data from this file can be merged with the 2021 MEPS HC Full-Year Consolidated file using the person identifier, DUPERSID. \n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-229B: 2021 Dental Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":172,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-067A","TITLE":"2002 Prescribed Medicines File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2004-11-19T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2002","YEAR":"2002","DESCRIPTION":"\nThis file is one in a series of public use event files from the 2002 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC) and Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII data file and SAS transport file (with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) this public use file provides detailed information on household-reported prescribed medicines for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of prescribed medicine utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2002. Each record represents one household-reported prescribed medicine that was purchased during calendar year 2002. These data were collected during the 2002 portion of Round 3 and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 6, as well as Rounds 1, 2 and the 2002 portion of Round 3 for Panel 7 of the MEPS HC. Each record on this event file represents a unique prescribed medicine event; that is, a prescribed medicine reported as being purchased or otherwise obtained by the household respondent, and includes the following: an identifier for each unique prescribed medicine; detailed characteristics associated with the event (e.g., national drug code (NDC), medicine name, etc.); selected Multum Lexicon variables; conditions, if any, associated with the medicine; the date on which the person first used the medicine; total expenditure and sources of payments; types of pharmacies that filled the household's prescriptions; and a full-year person level weight.

⚠ A problem was discovered with the linking between the MEPS Prescribed Medicines files and the Cerner Multum file that resulted in some incorrect therapeutic classes being assigned. The Multum Lexicon Addendum files (HC-068) contain the corrected therapeutic classes. Analysts should use caution when using the Cerner Multum therapeutic class variables for analysis and should always check for accuracy, because the Multum classification has been changed by the addition of new classes and subclasses, and by changes in the hierarchy of classes. See the documentation for the Multum Lexicon Addendum files for examples.

The Multum Lexicon Addendum files (HC-068) also contain an additional variable not in the 1996 through 2012 MEPS Prescribed Medicines files: the generic name of the drug most commonly used by prescribing physicians.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-067A 2002 Prescribed Medicines","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":521,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-229C","TITLE":"2021 Other Medical Expenses File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2023-05-26T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2021","YEAR":"2021","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2021 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the Other Medical Expenses file provides information on the purchases of and expenditures for visual aids, medical equipment, supplies, and other medical items during the 2021 calendar year for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States. It contains one record for each type of medical item reported as being purchased or otherwise obtained by a household member during the specified reference period. This file consists of MEPS survey data obtained in the 2021 portion of Round 7, and all of Rounds 8 and 9 for Panel 23; the 2021 portion of Rounds 5 and 7, and all of Round 6 for Panel 24; the 2021 portion of Round 3 and all of Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 25; and Rounds 1, 2, and the 2021 portion of Round 3 for Panel 26 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering the calendar year 2021). This year, 2021, is the first data year to include four panels of data. Because of concerns about lower response rates due to COVID-19, Panels 23 and 24 were extended to include 9 rounds of data collection; data for Rounds 7, 8, and 9 for Panel 23 and Rounds 5, 6, and 7 for Panel 24 are included in the 2021 data files. Data from this event file can be merged with other 2021 MEPS HC data files to append person-level data, such as demographic characteristics or health insurance coverage, to each Other Medical record. This file can also be used to construct summary variables of expenditures, source of payment, and related aspects of the purchase of medical items.\n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-229C: 2021 Other Medical Expenses File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":522,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-229H","TITLE":"2021 Home Health File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2023-05-26T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2021","YEAR":"2021","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2021 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). The Home Health File contains household-reported information on home health visits including the type of provider, type of services received, length of the visit, reason for the visit, expenditures, and sources of payment. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements and in a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, this public use file provides information on home health care for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilizations and expenditures associated with home health care during the 2021 calendar year. This file consists of MEPS survey data obtained in the 2021 portion of Round 7, and all of Rounds 8 and 9 for Panel 23; the 2021 portion of Rounds 5 and 7, and all of Round 6 for Panel 24; and the 2021 portion of Round 3 and all of Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 25; and Rounds 1, 2, and the 2021 portion of Round 3 for Panel 26 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering the calendar year 2021). This year, 2021, is the first data year to include four panels of data. Because of concerns about lower response rates due to COVID-19, Panels 23 and 24 were extended to include 9 rounds of data collection; data for Rounds 7, 8, and 9 for Panel 23 and Rounds 5, 6, and 7 for Panel 24 are included in the 2021 data files. To append person-level information such as demographic or health insurance coverage to each event record, data from this file can be merged with the 2021 MEPS HC Full-Year Consolidated file using the person identifier, DUPERSID.\n For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-229H: 2021 Home Health File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":167,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-067D","TITLE":"2002 Hospital Inpatient Stays File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2004-10-29T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2002","YEAR":"2002","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2002 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC) and the Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Hospital Inpatient Stays File provides detailed information on hospital inpatient stays. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of inpatient hospital stay utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2002. Each record represents one, household-reported, inpatient hospital stay reported during the 2002 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 6, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2002 portion of round 3 for Panel 7 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2002). The Hospital Inpatient Stays Public Use Data File is an event-level data file containing characteristics associated with the hospital inpatient stay event such as: the date of the hospital inpatient stay, reason for the stay, types of services received, condition(s) and procedure(s) associated with the hospital inpatient stay, whether or not medicines were prescribed and imputed expenditure data.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-072: 2001 and 2002 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-067D 2002 Hospital Inpatient Stays","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":531,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-229I","TITLE":"Appendix to MEPS 2021 Event Files","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2023-08-25T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2021","YEAR":"2021","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of public use event files drawn from the 2021 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC) and Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, Stata, and R programming statements), a SAS transport file, a SAS v9 file, a Stata file, and an Excel file, the Appendix to MEPS 2021 Event Files, or CLNK file, is used for linking the MEPS 2021 Conditions file (HC-231) with the MEPS 2021 Event Files (HC-229A through HC-229H). The file contains data collected during the 2021 portion of Round 7, and all of Rounds 8 and 9 for Panel 23; the 2021 portion of Rounds 5 and 7, and all of Round 6 for Panel 24; the 2021 portion of Round 3 and all of Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 25; and Rounds 1, 2, and the 2021 portion of Round 3 for Panel 26 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering the calendar year 2021). This year, 2021, is the first data year to include four panels of data. Because of concerns about lower response rates due to COVID-19, Panels 23 and 24 were extended to include 9 rounds of data collection; data for Rounds 7, 8, and 9 for Panel 23 and Rounds 5, 6, and 7 for Panel 24 are included in the 2021 data files. \n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-229I: Appendix to MEPS 2021 Event Files","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":31,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-016H","TITLE":"1997 Home Health File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2001-06-06T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1997","YEAR":"1997","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 1997 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). The Home Health File provides household-reported information on expenditures for home health visits including the type of provider, type of services received, length of the visit, reason for the visit, expenditures, and sources of payment. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information on home health care for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilization and expenditures associated with home health care during the 1997 calendar year. This file consists of 1997 data obtained in the 1997 portion of round 3, and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 1, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 1997 portion of round 3 for Panel 2 of the survey.

The Home Health Visits Public Use Data File consists of 2 event-level data files. File 1 contains characteristics associated with the home health care and imputed expenditure data. File 2 contains unimputed expenditure data.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-029: 1997 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 01-DP07","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-016H 1997 Home Health","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":527,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-229A","TITLE":"2021 Prescribed Medicines File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2023-07-28T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2021","YEAR":"2021","DESCRIPTION":"This file is one in a series of public use event files from the 2021 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC) and Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII data file, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file (with SAS, STATA, SPSS, and R user statements), this public use file provides detailed information on household-reported prescribed medicines for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of prescribed medicine utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2021. Each record represents one household-reported prescribed medicine that was purchased during calendar year 2021. These data were collected during the 2021 portion of Round 7, and all of Rounds 8 and 9 for Panel 23; the 2021 portion of Rounds 5 and 7, and all of Round 6 for Panel 24; the 2021 portion of Round 3 and all of Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 25; and Rounds 1, 2, and the 2021 portion of Round 3 for Panel 26 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering the calendar year 2021). This year, 2021, is the first data year to include four panels of data. Because of concerns about lower response rates due to COVID-19, Panels 23 and 24 were extended to include 9 rounds of data collection; data for Rounds 7, 8, and 9 for Panel 23 and Rounds 5, 6, and 7 for Panel 24 are included in the 2021 data files. Each record on this event file represents a unique prescribed medicine event; that is, a prescribed medicine reported as being purchased or otherwise obtained by the household respondent, and includes the following: an identifier for each unique prescribed medicine; detailed characteristics associated with the event (e.g., national drug code (NDC), medicine name, selected Multum Lexicon variables, etc.); the date on which the person first used the medicine; total expenditure and sources of payments; types of pharmacies that filled the household's prescriptions; and a full-year person-level weight. \n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-229A: 2021 Prescribed Medicines","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":419,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-068","TITLE":"Multum Lexicon Addendum Files to MEPS Prescribed Medicines Files 1996-2013","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2018-02-02T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1996-2013","YEAR":"1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013","DESCRIPTION":"\nThis MEPS public use release is one in a series of data releases drawn from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). This release contains 18 Multum Lexicon Addendum files which correspond to the years 1996-2013. Each of these files (H68F1-H68F18) can be linked to the corresponding 1996-2013 MEPS Prescribed Medicines file (MEPS releases HC-010A through HC-160A). These files are released as ASCII files with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements, and in SAS Transport format. National estimates can not be made directly from the Multum Lexicon Addendum files. The Multum Lexicon Addendum files need to be linked to MEPS full year files and estimates involving the Multum Lexicon variables requires users to make analytic decisions based on understanding the complexity of the Multum Lexicon Addendum files. The Multum Lexicon variables on these files are derived from the Multum Lexicon database at Cerner Multum, Inc. For additional information on these and other Multum Lexicon variables, as well as the Multum Lexicon database at Cerner Multum, Inc., please refer to the Multum.com web site for further information.

⚠ A problem was discovered with the linking between the MEPS Prescribed Medicines files and the Cerner Multum file that resulted in some incorrect therapeutic classes being assigned. The Multum Lexicon Addendum files (HC-068) contain the corrected therapeutic classes. Analysts should use caution when using the Cerner Multum therapeutic class variables for analysis and should always check for accuracy, because the Multum classification has been changed by the addition of new classes and subclasses, and by changes in the hierarchy of classes. See the documentation for the Multum Lexicon Addendum files for examples.

The Multum Lexicon Addendum files (HC-068) also contain an additional variable not in the 1996 through 2012 MEPS Prescribed Medicines files: the generic name of the drug most commonly used by prescribing physicians.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-068 Multum Lexicon Addendum Files 1996-2013","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":464,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-206C","TITLE":"2018 Other Medical Expenses File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2020-05-28T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2018","YEAR":"2018","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2018 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, this public use file provides information on the purchase of and expenditures for medical equipment, supplies, glasses and other medical items for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilization and expenditures associated with medical items during the 2018 calendar year. This file consists of 2018 data obtained in the 2018 portion of round 3, and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 22, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2018 portion of round 3 for Panel 23 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2018).\n

Starting in 2018, instead of the XPORT engine, the CPORT procedure is used to create MEPS Public Use Files (PUFS) \nin transport format (excluding the 2018 Point-in-Time file, HC-036, and HC-036BRR). These CPORT data files \n(.ssp) cannot be read directly into R or Stata at this time. The ASCII (.dat) data file format can be used \ninstead, along with the corresponding instructions found in the 'Programming Statements' files. In addition, \nSAS users must use the CIMPORT procedure to restore the transport files (.ssp) into SAS data sets. For more \ndetails on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the \n MEPS GitHub page\n \"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-206C: 2018 Other Medical Expenses File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":465,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-206B","TITLE":"2018 Dental Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2020-05-28T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2018","YEAR":"2018","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2018 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the Dental Visits File provides detailed information on dental events for a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the 2018 calendar year. This file consists of 2018 data obtained in the 2018 portion of round 3, and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 22, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2018 portion of round 3 for Panel 23 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2018), and contains variables pertaining to household reported dental visits. The file includes the date of the dental event, type of provider seen, procedure(s) associated with the dental event; flat fee information; imputed sources of payment; total payment and total charge of the dental event expenditure, and a full-year person-level weight.\n

Starting in 2018, instead of the XPORT engine, the CPORT procedure is used to create MEPS Public Use Files (PUFS) \nin transport format (excluding the 2018 Point-in-Time file, HC-036, and HC-036BRR). These CPORT data files \n(.ssp) cannot be read directly into R or Stata at this time. The ASCII (.dat) data file format can be used \ninstead, along with the corresponding instructions found in the 'Programming Statements' files. In addition, \nSAS users must use the CIMPORT procedure to restore the transport files (.ssp) into SAS data sets. For more \ndetails on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the \n MEPS GitHub page\n \"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-206B: 2018 Dental Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":466,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-206H","TITLE":"2018 Home Health File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2020-05-28T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2018","YEAR":"2018","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2018 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). The Home Health File contains household-reported information on home health visits including the type of provider, type of services received, length of the visit, reason for the visit, expenditures, and sources of payment. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements and in a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, this public use file provides information on home health care for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilizations and expenditures associated with home health care during the 2018 calendar year. This file consists of 2018 data obtained in the 2018 portion of round 3, and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 22, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2018 portion of round 3 for Panel 23 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2018).\n

Starting in 2018, instead of the XPORT engine, the CPORT procedure is used to create MEPS Public Use Files (PUFS) \nin transport format (excluding the 2018 Point-in-Time file, HC-036, and HC-036BRR). These CPORT data files \n(.ssp) cannot be read directly into R or Stata at this time. The ASCII (.dat) data file format can be used \ninstead, along with the corresponding instructions found in the 'Programming Statements' files. In addition, \nSAS users must use the CIMPORT procedure to restore the transport files (.ssp) into SAS data sets. For more \ndetails on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the \n MEPS GitHub page\n \"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-206H: 2018 Home Health File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":541,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-239B","TITLE":"2022 Dental Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2024-05-31T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2022","YEAR":"2022","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2022 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the Dental Visits File provides detailed information on dental events for a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the 2022 calendar year. This file contains data collected in Rounds 7-9 of Panel 24, Rounds 3-5 of Panel 26, and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 27 of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), corresponding to the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2022. Each dental event record includes the following: date of the dental event; type of provider seen; procedure(s) associated with the dental event; flat fee information; imputed sources of payment; total payment and total charge of the dental event expenditure; and a full-year person-level weight. To append person-level information such as demographic or health insurance coverage to each event record, data from this file can be merged with the 2022 MEPS HC Full-Year Consolidated file using the person identifier, DUPERSID.\n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-239B: 2022 Dental Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":542,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-239C","TITLE":"2022 Other Medical Expenses File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2024-05-31T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2022","YEAR":"2022","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2022 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the Other Medical Expenses file provides information on the purchases of and expenditures for visual aids, medical equipment, supplies, and other medical items during the 2022 calendar year for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States. It contains one record for each type of medical item reported as being purchased or otherwise obtained by a household member during the specified reference period. This file contains data collected in Rounds 7-9 of Panel 24, Rounds 3-5 of Panel 26, and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 27 of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), corresponding to the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2022. Data from this event file can be merged with other 2022 MEPS HC data files to append person-level data, such as demographic characteristics or health insurance coverage, to each Other Medical record. This file can also be used to construct summary variables of expenditures, source of payment, and related aspects of the purchase of medical items.\n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-239C: 2022 Other Medical Expenses File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":543,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-239H","TITLE":"2022 Home Health File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2024-05-31T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2022","YEAR":"2022","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2022 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). The Home Health File contains household-reported information on home health visits, including the type of provider, type of services received, length of the visit, reason for the visit, expenditures, and sources of payment. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the Home Health file provides information on home health care for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilizations and expenditures associated with home health care during the 2022 calendar year. This file contains data collected in Rounds 7-9 of Panel 24, Rounds 3-5 of Panel 26, and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 27 of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), corresponding to the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2022. To append person-level information such as demographic or health insurance coverage to each event record, data from this file can be merged with the 2022 MEPS HC Full-Year Consolidated file using the person identifier, DUPERSID. \n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-239H: 2022 Home Health File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":223,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-094H","TITLE":"2005 Home Health File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2007-08-31T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2005","YEAR":"2005","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2005 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Household-reported information on expenditures for home health visits including the type of provider, type of services received, length of the visit, reason for the visit, expenditures, and sources of payment. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information on home health care for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilization and expenditures associated with home health care during the 2005 calendar year. This file consists of 2005 data obtained in the 2005 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 9, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2005 portion of round 3 for Panel 10 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2005).","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-094H 2005 Home Health","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":467,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-206D","TITLE":"2018 Hospital Inpatient Stays File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2020-06-26T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2018","YEAR":"2018","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the \n2018 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, \nSPSS, STATA and R programming statements a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the Hospital Inpatient Stays File provides \ndetailed information on hospital inpatient stays. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample \nof the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of \ninpatient hospital stay utilizations and expenditures for calendar year 2018. Each record represents one \nhousehold-reported inpatient hospital stay reported during the 2018 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 \nfor Panel 22, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 2018 portion of round 3 for Panel 23 of the survey \n(i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2018). The Hospital Inpatient Stays Public \nUse Data File is an event-level data file containing characteristics associated with the hospital inpatient \nstay event such as: the date of the hospital inpatient stay, reason for the stay, types of services received, \nwhether or not medicines were prescribed, and imputed expenditure data.\n

Starting in 2018, instead of the XPORT engine, the CPORT procedure is used to create MEPS Public Use Files (PUFS) \nin transport format (excluding the 2018 Point-in-Time file, HC-036, and HC-036BRR). These CPORT data files \n(.ssp) cannot be read directly into R or Stata at this time. The ASCII (.dat) data file format can be used \ninstead, along with the corresponding instructions found in the 'Programming Statements' files. In addition, \nSAS users must use the CIMPORT procedure to restore the transport files (.ssp) into SAS data sets. For more \ndetails on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the \n MEPS GitHub page\n \"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-206D: 2018 Hospital Inpatient Stays File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":470,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-206G","TITLE":"2018 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2020-06-26T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2018","YEAR":"2018","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2018 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA and R programming statements a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the Medical Provider Visits File provides detailed information on office-based medical provider visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of office-based medical provider utilizations and expenditures for calendar year 2018. Each record represents one household-reported office-based medical provider visit reported during the 2018 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 22, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2018 portion of round 3 for Panel 23 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2018). The Office-Based Provider Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the office-based visit, such as, date of the visit, time spent with the provider, types of treatment and services received, types of medicine prescribed, expenditures, and sources of payment associated with the visit. \n

Starting in 2018, instead of the XPORT engine, the CPORT procedure is used to create MEPS Public Use Files (PUFS) \nin transport format (excluding the 2018 Point-in-Time file, HC-036, and HC-036BRR). These CPORT data files \n(.ssp) cannot be read directly into R or Stata at this time. The ASCII (.dat) data file format can be used \ninstead, along with the corresponding instructions found in the 'Programming Statements' files. In addition, \nSAS users must use the CIMPORT procedure to restore the transport files (.ssp) into SAS data sets. For more \ndetails on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the \n MEPS GitHub page\n \"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-206G: 2018 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":499,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-220D","TITLE":"2020 Hospital Inpatient Stays File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2022-07-22T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2020","YEAR":"2020","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2020 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA and R programming statements, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the Hospital Inpatient Stays File provides detailed information on hospital inpatient stays. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of inpatient hospital stay utilizations and expenditures for calendar year 2020. Each record represents one household-reported inpatient hospital stay from Rounds 6-7 for Panel 23, Rounds 3-5 for Panel 24, and Rounds 1-3 for Panel 25 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2020). This year, 2020, is the first data year to include three panels of data; Panel 23 was extended to include Rounds 6 and 7. The Hospital Inpatient Stays Public Use Data File is an event-level data file containing characteristics associated with the hospital inpatient stay event such as: the date of the hospital inpatient stay, reason for the stay, types of services received, whether or not medicines were prescribed, and imputed expenditure data. For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-220D: 2020 Hospital Inpatient Stays File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":500,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-220E","TITLE":"2020 Emergency Room Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2022-07-22T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2020","YEAR":"2020","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2020 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA, and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the Emergency Room Visits File provides detailed information on emergency room visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of emergency room utilizations and expenditures for calendar year 2020. Each record represents one household-reported emergency room visit from Rounds 6-7 for Panel 23, Rounds 3-5 for Panel 24, and Rounds 1-3 for Panel 25 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2020). This year, 2020, is the first data year to include three panels of data; Panel 23 was extended to include Rounds 6 and 7. The Emergency Room Visits Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the emergency room visit, such as, the date of the visit, types of care and services received, types of medicine prescribed during the visit, expenditures, and sources of payment associated with the visit. For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-220E: 2020 Emergency Room Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":501,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-220F","TITLE":"2020 Outpatient Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2022-07-22T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2020","YEAR":"2020","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2020 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA, and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the Outpatient Visits File provides detailed information on outpatient visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of outpatient utilizations and expenditures for calendar year 2020. Each record represents one household-reported outpatient visit from Rounds 6-7 for Panel 23, Rounds 3-5 for Panel 24, and Rounds 1-3 for Panel 25 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2020). This year, 2020, is the first data year to include three panels of data; Panel 23 was extended to include Rounds 6 and 7. The Outpatient Visits Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the outpatient visit such as the date of the visit, whether or not a doctor was seen, type of care received, type of services provided, expenditures, and sources of payment. For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-220F: 2020 Outpatient Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":191,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-077A","TITLE":"2003 Prescribed Medicines File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2005-10-28T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2003","YEAR":"2003","DESCRIPTION":"\nThis file is one in a series of public use event files from the 2003 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC) and Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII data file and SAS transport file (with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) this public use file provides detailed information on household-reported prescribed medicines for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of prescribed medicine utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2003. Each record represents one household-reported prescribed medicine that was purchased during calendar year 2003. These data were collected during the 2003 portion of Round 3 and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 7, as well as Rounds 1, 2 and the 2003 portion of Round 3 for Panel 8 of the MEPS HC. Each record on this event file represents a unique prescribed medicine event; that is, a prescribed medicine reported as being purchased or otherwise obtained by the household respondent, and includes the following: an identifier for each unique prescribed medicine; detailed characteristics associated with the event (e.g., national drug code (NDC), medicine name, etc.); selected Multum Lexicon variables; conditions, if any, associated with the medicine; the date on which the person first used the medicine; total expenditure and sources of payments; types of pharmacies that filled the household's prescriptions; and a full-year person level weight.

⚠ A problem was discovered with the linking between the MEPS Prescribed Medicines files and the Cerner Multum file that resulted in some incorrect therapeutic classes being assigned. The Multum Lexicon Addendum files (HC-068) contain the corrected therapeutic classes. Analysts should use caution when using the Cerner Multum therapeutic class variables for analysis and should always check for accuracy, because the Multum classification has been changed by the addition of new classes and subclasses, and by changes in the hierarchy of classes. See the documentation for the Multum Lexicon Addendum files for examples.

The Multum Lexicon Addendum files (HC-068) also contain an additional variable not in the 1996 through 2012 MEPS Prescribed Medicines files: the generic name of the drug most commonly used by prescribing physicians.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-077A 2003 Prescribed Medicines","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":67,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-026A","TITLE":"1998 Prescribed Medicines File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2001-12-19T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1998","YEAR":"1998","DESCRIPTION":"\nThis file is one in a series of public use event files from the 1998 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC) and Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements, this public use file provides detailed information on household-reported prescribed medicines for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of prescribed medicine utilization and expenditures for calendar year 1998. Each record represents one household-reported prescribed medicine that was purchased or obtained during calendar year 1998. These data were collected during the 1998 portion of round 3, and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 2, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 1998 portion of round 3 for Panel 3. Each record on this event file represents a unique prescribed medicine event; that is, a prescribed medicine reported as being purchased or otherwise obtained by the household respondent, and includes the following: an identifier for each unique prescribed medicine; detailed characteristics associated with the event (e.g., national drug code (NDC), medicine name, etc.); conditions, if any, associated with the medicine; the date on which the person first used the medicine; total expenditure and sources of payments; types of pharmacies that filled the household's prescriptions; whether the prescription is one in which the household received a free sample of it during the round; and a full-year person-level weight.
For more information, see MEPS HC-030: 1998 MEPS HC Survey Data.

⚠ A problem was discovered with the linking between the MEPS Prescribed Medicines files and the Cerner Multum file that resulted in some incorrect therapeutic classes being assigned. The Multum Lexicon Addendum files (HC-068) contain the corrected therapeutic classes. Analysts should use caution when using the Cerner Multum therapeutic class variables for analysis and should always check for accuracy, because the Multum classification has been changed by the addition of new classes and subclasses, and by changes in the hierarchy of classes. See the documentation for the Multum Lexicon Addendum files for examples.

The Multum Lexicon Addendum files (HC-068) also contain an additional variable not in the 1996 through 2012 MEPS Prescribed Medicines files: the generic name of the drug most commonly used by prescribing physicians.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 02-DP02","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-026A 1998 Prescribed Medicines","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":502,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-220G","TITLE":"2020 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2022-07-22T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2020","YEAR":"2020","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2020 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the Medical Provider Visits File provides detailed information on office-based medical provider visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of office-based medical provider utilizations and expenditures for calendar year 2020. Each record represents one household-reported office-based medical provider visit from Rounds 6-7 for Panel 23, Rounds 3-5 for Panel 24, and Rounds 1-3 for Panel 25 (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2020). This year, 2020, is the first data year to include three panels of data; Panel 23 was extended to include Rounds 6 and 7. The Office-Based Provider Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the office-based visit, such as, date of the visit, time spent with the provider, types of treatment and services received, types of medicine prescribed, expenditures, and sources of payment associated with the visit. For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-220G: 2020 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":564,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-248D","TITLE":"2023 Hospital Inpatient Stays File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2025-06-27T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2023","YEAR":"2023","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2023 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the Hospital Inpatient Stays File provides detailed information on hospital inpatient stays. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of inpatient hospital stay utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2023. Each record comprises data for one household-reported inpatient hospital stay collected during Rounds 3-5 of Panel 27 and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 28, corresponding to the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2023. The Hospital Inpatient Stays File contains data on several characteristics associated with each hospital inpatient stay, including the start and ends dates for the hospital inpatient stay, the number of nights spent in the hospital, the reason for admittance, whether or not a doctor was seen, types of services received, medicines prescribed at discharge, expenditures, and sources of payment. To append person-level information such as demographic or health insurance coverage to each event record, data from this file can be merged with the 2023 MEPS HC Full-Year Consolidated File using the person identifier, DUPERSID. \n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-248D: 2023 Hospital Inpatient Stays File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":588,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-254I","TITLE":"Appendix to MEPS 2024 Event Files","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2026-08-28T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2024","YEAR":"2024","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of public use event files drawn from the 2024 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC) and Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the Appendix to MEPS 2024 Event Files, or Conditions-Event Link (CLNK) File, is used for linking the MEPS 2024 Medical Conditions File (HC-255) with the MEPS 2024 Event Files (HC-254A, and HC-254D through HC-254H). The file contains data collected during Rounds 3-5 of Panel 28 and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 29 of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), corresponding to the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2024. \nFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-254I: Appendix to MEPS 2024 Event Files","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":44,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-026D","TITLE":"1998 Hospital Inpatient Stays File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2001-02-08T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1998","YEAR":"1998","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 1998 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC) and the Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Hospital Inpatient Stays File provides detailed information on hospital inpatient stays. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of inpatient hospital stay utilization and expenditures for calendar year 1998. Each record represents one, household-reported, inpatient hospital stay reported during the 1998 portion of round 3, and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 2, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 1998 portion of round 3 for Panel 3 of the survey.

The Hospital Inpatient Stays Public Use Data File consists of 2 event-level data files. File 1 contains characteristics associated with the hospital inpatient stay event such as: the date of the hospital inpatient stay, reason for the stay, types of services received, condition(s) and procedure(s) associated with the hospital inpatient stay, and whether or not medicines were prescribed and imputed expenditure data. File 2 contains pre-imputed and unimputed expenditure data.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-030: 1998 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 02-DP02","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-026D 1998 Hospital Inpatient Stays","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":544,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-239D","TITLE":"2022 Hospital Inpatient Stays File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2024-07-12T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2022","YEAR":"2022","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2022 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the Hospital Inpatient Stays File provides detailed information on hospital inpatient stays. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of inpatient hospital stay utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2022. Each record comprises data for one household-reported inpatient hospital stay collected during Rounds 7-9 of Panel 24, Rounds 3-5 of Panel 26, and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 27, corresponding to the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2022. The Hospital Inpatient Stays File contains data on several characteristics associated with each hospital inpatient stay, including the start and ends dates for the hospital inpatient stay, the number of nights spent in the hospital, the reason for admittance, whether or not a doctor was seen, types of services received, medicines prescribed at discharge, expenditures, and sources of payment. To append person-level information such as demographic or health insurance coverage to each event record, data from this file can be merged with the 2022 MEPS HC Full-Year Consolidated File using the person identifier, DUPERSID. \n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-239D: 2022 Hospital Inpatient Stays File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":545,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-239E","TITLE":"2022 Emergency Room Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2024-07-12T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2022","YEAR":"2022","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2022 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the Emergency Room Visits File provides detailed information on emergency room visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of emergency room utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2022. Each record comprises data for one household-reported emergency room visit collected during Rounds 7-9 of Panel 24, Rounds 3-5 of Panel 26, and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 27, corresponding to the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2022. The Emergency Room Visits File contains data on several characteristics associated with each emergency room visit, including date of the visit, whether or not a doctor was seen, types of care and services received, types of medicine prescribed during the visit, expenditures, and sources of payment. To append person-level information such as demographic or health insurance coverage to each event record, data from this file can be merged with the 2022 MEPS HC Full-Year Consolidated File using the person identifier, DUPERSID. \n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-239E: 2022 Emergency Room Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":546,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-239F","TITLE":"2022 Outpatient Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2024-07-12T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2022","YEAR":"2022","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2022 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the Outpatient Visits File provides detailed information on outpatient visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of outpatient utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2022. Each record comprises data for one household-reported outpatient visit collected during Rounds 7-9 of Panel 24, Rounds 3-5 of Panel 26, and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 27, corresponding to the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2022. The Outpatient Visits File contains data on several characteristics associated with each outpatient visit, including the date of the visit, whether or not a doctor was seen, types of care and services received, medicines prescribed during the visit, expenditures, and sources of payment. To append person-level information such as demographic or health insurance coverage to each event record, data from this file can be merged with the 2022 MEPS HC Full-Year Consolidated File using the person identifier, DUPERSID.\n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-239F: 2022 Outpatient Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":571,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-248I","TITLE":"Appendix to MEPS 2023 Event Files","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2025-08-28T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2023","YEAR":"2023","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of public use event files drawn from the 2023 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC) and Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the Appendix to MEPS 2023 Event Files, or Conditions-Event Link (CLNK) File, is used for linking the MEPS 2023 Medical Conditions File (HC-249) with the MEPS 2023 Event Files (HC-248A, and HC-248D through HC-248H). The file contains data collected during Rounds 3-5 of Panel 27 and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 28 of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), corresponding to the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2023. \n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-248I: Appendix to MEPS 2023 Event Files","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":45,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-026E","TITLE":"1998 Emergency Room Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2001-10-26T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1998","YEAR":"1998","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 1998 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC) and the Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Emergency Room Visits File provides detailed information on emergency room visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of emergency room utilization and expenditures for calendar year 1998. Each record represents one, household-reported, emergency room visit reported during the 1998 portion of round 3, and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 2, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 1998 portion of round 3 for Panel 3 of the survey.

The Emergency Room Visits Public Use Data File consists of two event-level data files. File 1 contains characteristics associated with the emergency room visit, such as, the date of the visit, types of care and services received, types of medicine prescribed during the visit, condition codes, expenditures, and source of payment associated with the visit, and imputed expenditure variables. File 2 contains pre-imputed and unimputed expenditure variables drawn from both the Household and Medical Provider Components for all emergency room visits on File1.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-030: 1998 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 02-DP02","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-026E 1998 Emergency Room Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":547,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-239G","TITLE":"2022 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2024-07-12T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2022","YEAR":"2022","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2022 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the Office-Based Medical Provider Visits File provides detailed information on office-based medical provider visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of office-based medical provider utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2022. Each record comprises data for one household-reported office-based medical provider visit collected during Rounds 7-9 of Panel 24, Rounds 3-5 of Panel 26, and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 27, corresponding to the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2022. The Office-Based Medical Provider File contains data on several characteristics associated with each office-based visit, including date of the visit, type of provider seen, types of care and services received, medicines prescribed, expenditures, and sources of payment. To append person-level information such as demographic or health insurance coverage to each event record, data from this file can be merged with the 2022 MEPS HC Full-Year Consolidated File using the person identifier, DUPERSID. \n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-239G: 2022 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":565,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-248E","TITLE":"2023 Emergency Room Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2025-06-27T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2023","YEAR":"2023","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2023 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the Emergency Room Visits File provides detailed information on emergency room visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of emergency room utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2023. Each record comprises data for one household-reported emergency room visit collected during Rounds 3-5 of Panel 27 and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 28, corresponding to the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2023. The Emergency Room Visits File contains data on several characteristics associated with each emergency room visit, including date of the visit, whether or not a doctor was seen, types of care and services received, types of medicine prescribed during the visit, expenditures, and sources of payment. To append person-level information such as demographic or health insurance coverage to each event record, data from this file can be merged with the 2023 MEPS HC Full-Year Consolidated File using the person identifier, DUPERSID. \n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-248E: 2023 Emergency Room Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":566,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-248F","TITLE":"2023 Outpatient Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2025-06-27T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2023","YEAR":"2023","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2023 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the Outpatient Visits File provides detailed information on outpatient visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of outpatient utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2023. Each record comprises data for one household-reported outpatient visit collected during Rounds 3-5 of Panel 27 and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 28, corresponding to the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2023. The Outpatient Visits File contains data on several characteristics associated with each outpatient visit, including the date of the visit, whether or not a doctor was seen, types of care and services received, medicines prescribed during the visit, expenditures, and sources of payment. To append person-level information such as demographic or health insurance coverage to each event record, data from this file can be merged with the 2023 MEPS HC Full-Year Consolidated File using the person identifier, DUPERSID.\n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-248F: 2023 Outpatient Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":47,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-026G","TITLE":"1998 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2001-09-26T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1998","YEAR":"1998","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 1998 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Medical Provider Visits File provides detailed information on office-based medical provider visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of office-based medical provider utilization and expenditures for calendar year 1998. Each record represents one household-reported office-based medical provider visit reported during the 1998 portion of round 3, and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 2, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 1998 portion of round 3 for Panel 3 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 1998).

The Office-Based Provider Public Use Data File consists of two event-level data files. File 1 contains characteristics associated with the office-based visit, such as, date of the visit, time spent with the provider, types of treatment and services received, types of medicine prescribed, condition codes, expenditures, source of payment associated with the visit and imputed expenditure variables. File 2 contains pre-imputed expenditure variables and is intended for analysts who want to perform their own imputations to handle missing data.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-030: 1998 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 02-DP02","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-026G 1998 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":567,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-248G","TITLE":"2023 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2025-06-27T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2023","YEAR":"2023","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2023 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the Office-Based Medical Provider Visits File provides detailed information on office-based medical provider visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of office-based medical provider utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2023. Each record comprises data for one household-reported office-based medical provider visit collected during Rounds 3-5 of Panel 27 and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 28, corresponding to the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2023. The Office-Based Medical Provider File contains data on several characteristics associated with each office-based visit, including date of the visit, type of provider seen, types of care and services received, medicines prescribed, expenditures, and sources of payment. To append person-level information such as demographic or health insurance coverage to each event record, data from this file can be merged with the 2023 MEPS HC Full-Year Consolidated File using the person identifier, DUPERSID. \n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-248G: 2023 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":446,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-197H","TITLE":"2017 Home Health File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2019-05-24T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2017","YEAR":"2017","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2017 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). The Home Health File contains household-reported information on home health visits including the type of provider, type of services received, length of the visit, reason for the visit, expenditures, and sources of payment. Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, this public use file provides information on home health care for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilizations and expenditures associated with home health care during the 2017 calendar year. This file consists of 2017 data obtained in the 2017 portion of round 3, and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 21, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2017 portion of round 3 for Panel 22 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2017). For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-197H: 2017 Home Health File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":489,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-213A","TITLE":"2019 Prescribed Medicines File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2021-07-23T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2019","YEAR":"2019","DESCRIPTION":"This file is one in a series of public use event files from the 2019 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC) and Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII data file, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file (with SAS, STATA, SPSS, and R user statements), this public use file provides detailed information on household-reported prescribed medicines for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of prescribed medicine utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2019. Each record represents one household-reported prescribed medicine that was purchased during calendar year 2019. These data were collected during the 2019 portion of Round 3 and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 23, as well as Rounds 1, 2 and the 2019 portion of Round 3 for Panel 24 of the MEPS HC. Each record on this event file represents a unique prescribed medicine event; that is, a prescribed medicine reported as being purchased or otherwise obtained by the household respondent, and includes the following: an identifier for each unique prescribed medicine; detailed characteristics associated with the event (e.g., national drug code (NDC), medicine name, etc.); selected Multum Lexicon variables; the date on which the person first used the medicine; total expenditure and sources of payments; types of pharmacies that filled the household's prescriptions; and a full-year person level weight. For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\n \"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-213A: 2019 Prescribed Medicines","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":581,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-254E","TITLE":"2024 Emergency Room Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2026-07-13T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2024","YEAR":"2024","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2024 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the Emergency Room Visits File provides detailed information on emergency room visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of emergency room utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2024. Each record comprises data for one household-reported emergency room visit collected during Rounds 3-5 of Panel 28 and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 29, corresponding to the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2024. The Emergency Room Visits File contains data on several characteristics associated with each emergency room visit, including date of the visit, whether or not a doctor was seen, types of care and services received, expenditures, and sources of payment. To append person-level information such as demographic or health insurance coverage to each event record, data from this file can be merged with the 2024 MEPS HC Full-Year Consolidated File using the person identifier, DUPERSID. \n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-254E: 2024 Emergency Room Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":91,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-033A","TITLE":"1999 Prescribed Medicines File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2002-08-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1999","YEAR":"1999","DESCRIPTION":"\nThis file is one in a series of public use event files from the 1999 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC) and Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII data file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and SAS transport file, this public use file provides detailed information on household-reported prescribed medicines for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of prescribed medicine utilization and expenditures for calendar year 1999. Each record represents one household-reported prescribed medicine that was purchased or obtained during calendar year 1999. These data were collected during the 1999 portion of round 3 (and round 2 for some cases), and round 4 and 5 for Panel 3, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 1999 portion of round 3 for Panel 4. Each record on this event file represents a unique prescribed medicine event; that is, a prescribed medicine reported as being purchased or otherwise obtained by the household respondent, and includes the following: an identifier for each unique prescribed medicine; detailed characteristics associated with the event (e.g., national drug code (NDC), medicine name, etc.); conditions, if any, associated with the medicine; the date on which the person first used the medicine; total expenditure and sources of payments; types of pharmacies that filled the household's prescriptions; and a full-year person level weight.
For more information, see MEPS HC-054: 1999 and 2000 MEPS HC Survey Data.

⚠ A problem was discovered with the linking between the MEPS Prescribed Medicines files and the Cerner Multum file that resulted in some incorrect therapeutic classes being assigned. The Multum Lexicon Addendum files (HC-068) contain the corrected therapeutic classes. Analysts should use caution when using the Cerner Multum therapeutic class variables for analysis and should always check for accuracy, because the Multum classification has been changed by the addition of new classes and subclasses, and by changes in the hierarchy of classes. See the documentation for the Multum Lexicon Addendum files for examples.

The Multum Lexicon Addendum files (HC-068) also contain an additional variable not in the 1996 through 2012 MEPS Prescribed Medicines files: the generic name of the drug most commonly used by prescribing physicians.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 03-DP01","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-033A 1999 Prescribed Medicines","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":90,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-033G","TITLE":"1999 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2002-07-31T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1999","YEAR":"1999","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 1999 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Medical Provider Visits File provides detailed information on office-based medical provider visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of office-based medical provider utilization and expenditures for calendar year 1999. Each record represents one household-reported office-based medical provider visit reported during the 1999 portion of round 3 (round 2 for some cases), and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 3, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 1999 portion of round 3 for Panel 4 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 1999).

The Office-Based Provider Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the office-based visit, such as, date of the visit, time spent with the provider, types of treatment and services received, types of medicine prescribed, condition codes, expenditures, source of payment associated with the visit and imputed expenditure variables.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-054: 1999 and 2000 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 03-DP01","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-033G 1999 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":568,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-248A","TITLE":"2023 Prescribed Medicines File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2025-07-25T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2023","YEAR":"2023","DESCRIPTION":"This file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2023 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC) and Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, this public use file provides detailed information on household-reported prescribed medicines for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of prescribed medicine utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2023. Each record represents one household-reported prescribed medicine that was purchased during calendar year 2023. The Prescribed Medicines File contains data collected in Rounds 3-5 of Panel 27 and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 28 of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), corresponding to the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2023. Each record on this event file represents a unique prescribed medicine event; that is, a prescribed medicine reported as being purchased or otherwise obtained by the household respondent, and includes the following: an identifier for each unique prescribed medicine; detailed characteristics associated with the event (e.g., national drug code (NDC), medicine name, selected Multum Lexicon variables, etc.); the date on which the person first used the medicine; total expenditure and sources of payments; types of pharmacies that filled the household's prescriptions; and a full- year person-level weight.\n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-248A: 2023 Prescribed Medicines File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":582,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-254F","TITLE":"2024 Outpatient Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2026-07-13T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2024","YEAR":"2024","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2024 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the Outpatient Visits File provides detailed information on outpatient visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of outpatient utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2024. Each record comprises data for one household-reported outpatient visit collected during Rounds 3-5 of Panel 28 and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 29, corresponding to the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2024. The Outpatient Visits File contains data on several characteristics associated with each outpatient visit, including the date of the visit, whether or not a doctor was seen, types of care and services received, expenditures, and sources of payment. To append person-level information such as demographic or health insurance coverage to each event record, data from this file can be merged with the 2024 MEPS HC Full-Year Consolidated File using the person identifier, DUPERSID.\n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-254F: 2024 Outpatient Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":92,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-033D","TITLE":"1999 Hospital Inpatient Stays File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2002-08-29T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1999","YEAR":"1999","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 1999 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC) and the Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Hospital Inpatient Stays File provides detailed information on hospital inpatient stays. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of inpatient hospital stay utilization and expenditures for calendar year 1999. Each record represents one, household-reported, inpatient hospital stay reported during the 1999 portion of round 3 (round 2 for some cases), and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 3, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 1999 portion of round 3 for Panel 4 of the survey.

The Hospital Inpatient Stays Public Use Data File consists of an event-level data file containing characteristics associated with the hospital inpatient stay event such as: the date of the hospital inpatient stay, reason for the stay, types of services received, condition(s) and procedure(s) associated with the hospital inpatient stay, whether or not medicines were prescribed, and imputed expenditure data.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-054: 1999 and 2000 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 03-DP01","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-033D 1999 Hospital Inpatient Stays","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":583,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-254G","TITLE":"2024 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2026-07-13T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2024","YEAR":"2024","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2024 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the Office-Based Medical Provider Visits File provides detailed information on office-based medical provider visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of office-based medical provider utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2024. Each record comprises data for one household-reported office-based medical provider visit collected during Rounds 3-5 of Panel 28 and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 29, corresponding to the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2024. The Office-Based Medical Provider File contains data on several characteristics associated with each office-based visit, including date of the visit, type of provider seen, types of care and services received, expenditures, and sources of payment. To append person-level information such as demographic or health insurance coverage to each event record, data from this file can be merged with the 2024 MEPS HC Full-Year Consolidated File using the person identifier, DUPERSID.\n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-254G: 2024 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":584,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-254A","TITLE":"2024 Prescribed Medicines File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2026-07-31T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2024","YEAR":"2024","DESCRIPTION":"This file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2024 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC) and Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, this public use file provides detailed information on household-reported prescribed medicines for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of prescribed medicine utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2024. Each record represents one household-reported prescribed medicine that was purchased during calendar year 2024. The Prescribed Medicines File contains data collected in Rounds 3-5 of Panel 28 and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 29 of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), corresponding to the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2024. Each record on this event file represents a unique prescribed medicine event; that is, a prescribed medicine reported as being purchased or otherwise obtained by the household respondent, and includes the following: an identifier for each unique prescribed medicine; detailed characteristics associated with the event (e.g., national drug code (NDC), medicine name, selected Multum Lexicon variables, etc.); the date on which the person first used the medicine; total expenditure and sources of payments; types of pharmacies that filled the household's prescriptions; and a full-year person-level weight.\n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-254A: 2024 Prescribed Medicines File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":88,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-033E","TITLE":"1999 Emergency Room Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2002-07-31T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1999","YEAR":"1999","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 1999 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC) and the Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Emergency Room Visits File provides detailed information on emergency room visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of emergency room utilization and expenditures for calendar year 1999. Each record represents one, household-reported, emergency room visit reported during the 1999 portion of round 3 (round 2 for some cases), and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 3, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 1999 portion of round 3 for Panel 4 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 1999).

The Emergency Room Visits Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the emergency room visit, such as, the date of the visit, types of care and services received, types of medicine prescribed during the visit, condition codes, expenditures and source of payment associated with the visit, and imputed expenditure variables.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-054: 1999 and 2000 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 03-DP01","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-033E 1999 Emergency Room Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":484,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-213D","TITLE":"2019 Hospital Inpatient Stays File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2021-06-25T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2019","YEAR":"2019","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2019 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA and R programming statements, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the Hospital Inpatient Stays File provides detailed information on hospital inpatient stays. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of inpatient hospital stay utilizations and expenditures for calendar year 2019. Each record represents one household-reported inpatient hospital stay reported during the 2019 portion of Round 3 and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 23, as well as Rounds 1, 2 and the 2019 portion of Round 3 for Panel 24 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2019). The Hospital Inpatient Stays Public Use Data File is an event-level data file containing characteristics associated with the hospital inpatient stay event such as: the date of the hospital inpatient stay, reason for the stay, types of services received, whether or not medicines were prescribed, and imputed expenditure data. For more \ndetails on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the \n MEPS GitHub page\n \"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-213D: 2019 Hospital Inpatient Stays File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":485,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-213E","TITLE":"2019 Emergency Room Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2021-06-25T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2019","YEAR":"2019","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2019 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA, and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the Emergency Room Visits File provides detailed information on emergency room visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of emergency room utilizations and expenditures for calendar year 2019. Each record represents one household-reported emergency room visit reported during the 2019 portion of Round 3 and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 23, as well as Rounds 1, 2, and the 2019 portion of Round 3 for Panel 24 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2019). The Emergency Room Visits Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the emergency room visit, such as, the date of the visit, types of care and services received, types of medicine prescribed during the visit, expenditures, and sources of payment associated with the visit. For more \ndetails on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the \n MEPS GitHub page\n \"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-213E: 2019 Emergency Room Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":486,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-213F","TITLE":"2019 Outpatient Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2021-06-25T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2019","YEAR":"2019","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 2019 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA, and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the Outpatient Visits File provides detailed information on outpatient visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of outpatient utilizations and expenditures for calendar year 2019. Each record represents one household-reported outpatient visit reported during the 2019 portion of Round 3 and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 23, as well as Rounds 1, 2 and the 2019 portion of Round 3 for Panel 24 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2019). The Outpatient Visits Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the outpatient visit such as the date of the visit, whether or not a doctor was seen, type of care received, type of services provided, expenditures, and sources of payment. For more \ndetails on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the \n MEPS GitHub page\n \"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-213F: 2019 Outpatient Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":487,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-213G","TITLE":"2019 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2021-06-25T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2019","YEAR":"2019","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2019 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the Medical Provider Visits File provides detailed information on office-based medical provider visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of office-based medical provider utilizations and expenditures for calendar year 2019. Each record represents one household-reported office-based medical provider visit reported during the 2019 portion of Round 3 and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 23, as well as Rounds 1, 2, and the 2019 portion of Round 3 for Panel 24 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2019). The Office-Based Provider Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the office-based visit, such as, date of the visit, time spent with the provider, types of treatment and services received, types of medicine prescribed, expenditures, and sources of payment associated with the visit. For more \ndetails on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the \n MEPS GitHub page\n \"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-213G: 2019 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":89,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-033F","TITLE":"1999 Outpatient Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2002-07-31T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1999","YEAR":"1999","DESCRIPTION":"This public use file is one in a series of event-level public use files drawn from the 1999 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC) and the Medical Provider Component (MPC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Outpatient Visits File provides detailed information on outpatient visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of outpatient utilization and expenditures for calendar year 1999. Each record represents one, household-reported, outpatient visit reported during the 1999 portion of round 3 (round 2 for some cases), and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 3, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 1999 portion of round 3 for Panel 4 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 1999).

The Outpatient Visits Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the outpatient visit and imputed expenditure data such as the date of the visit, whether or not a doctor was seen, type of care received, type of services provided, expenditures and sources of payment, and imputed sources of payment.

This file is also available on CD-ROM. For more information, see MEPS HC-054: 1999 and 2000 MEPS HC Survey Data.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 03-DP01","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-033F 1999 Outpatient Visits","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":576,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-253","TITLE":"2024 Jobs File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2026-05-29T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2024","YEAR":"2024","DESCRIPTION":"Released as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements and data user information), a SAS data set, a SAS transport dataset, a Stata dataset, and an Excel file, the 2024 Jobs File provides job-level data collected on a nationally representative sample of the United States civilian noninstitutionalized population for calendar year 2024. This file contains data collected in Rounds 3-5 of Panel 28, and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 29, corresponding to the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2024. The dataset includes variables pertaining to household-reported jobs, including earnings types, hours and weeks worked, establishment size, industry and occupation codes, retirement and other benefits offerings, and health insurance availability. \n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".

\n\tThe MEPS Industry Codes Condensing Rules and Occupation Codes Condensing Rules are now located in the Documentation Appendix, and no longer listed as separate files.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-253: 2024 Jobs File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":577,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-254B","TITLE":"2024 Dental Visits File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2026-05-29T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2024","YEAR":"2024","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of public use event files from the 2024 MEPS HC. It was released as an ASCII data file (with related SAS, SPSS, R, and Stata programming statements and data user information), a SAS data file, a SAS transport file, a Stata data file, and an Excel file. The 2024 Dental Visits Public Use File provides detailed information on dental events from a nationally representative sample of the U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized population. Data from the Dental Visits File can be used to make estimates of dental event utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2024. This file contains data collected in Rounds 3-5 of Panel 28, and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 29, corresponding to the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2024.\n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-254B: 2024 Dental Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":578,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-254C","TITLE":"2024 Other Medical Expenses File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2026-05-29T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2024","YEAR":"2024","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of public use event files from the 2024 MEPS HC. It was released as an ASCII data file (with related SAS, SPSS, R, and Stata programming statements and data user information), a SAS data file, a SAS transport file, a Stata data file, and an Excel file. The 2024 Other Medical Expenses public use event file provides information on the purchases of and expenditures for visual aids, medical equipment, supplies, and other medical items for a nationally representative sample of the U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized population. Data from the Other Medical Expenses file can be used to make estimates of the Other Medical event expenditures associated with medical items for the calendar year 2024. The purchase of medical equipment, supplies, and other medical items is based entirely on household reports. They were not included in the Medical Provider Component (MPC); therefore, all expenditure and payment data on the Other Medical Expenses file are reported by the household. This file contains data collected in Rounds 3-5 of Panel 28, and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 29, corresponding to the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2024.\n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-254C: 2024 Other Medical Expenses File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":579,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-254H","TITLE":"2024 Home Health File","DATATYPECODE":2,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Event File","RELEASEDATE":"2026-05-29T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2024","YEAR":"2024","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is one in a series of public use event files from the 2024 MEPS HC. It was released as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, R, and Stata programming statements and data user information), a SAS data file, a SAS transport file, a Stata data file, and an Excel file. The 2024 Home Health Visits Public Use File provides detailed information on home health events for a nationally representative sample of the U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized population. Data from the Home Health Visits file can be used to make estimates of home health (HH) event utilization and expenditures for the calendar year 2024. This file contains data collected in Rounds 3-5 of Panel 28, and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 29, corresponding to the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2024.\t\n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-254H: 2024 Home Health Visits File","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":182,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-075","TITLE":"2004 P8R3/P9R1 Population Characteristics","DATATYPECODE":3,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Point-in-Time File","RELEASEDATE":"2005-07-29T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2004","YEAR":"2004","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is the ninth point in time data file to be released from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC). The data are being released both as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) and in SAS transport format. This public use file provides information on data collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian non-institutionalized population of the United States during the early part of 2004. This file consists of 2004 data obtained in Round 3 of Panel 8 and Round 1 of Panel 9 of the MEPS Household Component and contains variables pertaining to survey administration, demographics, employment, health status, and health insurance.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-075 2004 P8R3/P9R1 Population Characteristics","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":308,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-134","TITLE":"2011 P15R3/P16R1 Population Characteristics","DATATYPECODE":3,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Point-in-Time File","RELEASEDATE":"2012-05-31T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2011","YEAR":"2011","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is the sixteenth point in time data file to be released from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC). The data are being released both as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) and in SAS transport format. This public use file provides information on data collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian non-institutionalized population of the United States during the early part of 2011. This file consists of 2011 data obtained in Round 3 of Panel 15 and Round 1 of Panel 16 of the MEPS Household Component and contains variables pertaining to survey administration, demographics, employment, health status, and health insurance.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-134: 2011 P15R3/P16R1 Population Characteristics","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":260,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-109","TITLE":"2008 P12R3/P13R1 Population Characteristics","DATATYPECODE":3,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Point-in-Time File","RELEASEDATE":"2009-07-31T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2008","YEAR":"2008","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is the thirteenth point in time data file to be released from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC). The data are being released both as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) and in SAS transport format. This public use file provides information on data collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian non-institutionalized population of the United States during the early part of 2008. This file consists of 2008 data obtained in Round 3 of Panel 12 and Round 1 of Panel 13 of the MEPS Household Component and contains variables pertaining to survey administration, demographics, employment, health status, and health insurance.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-109 2008 P11R3/P12R1 Population Characteristics","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":5,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-005","TITLE":"1997 P1R3/P2R1 Population Characteristics","DATATYPECODE":3,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Point-in-Time File","RELEASEDATE":"1999-03-22T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1997","YEAR":"1997","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file contains the second point-in-time public use data files to be released from the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, it provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the first part of 1997. This file consists of 1997 data obtained in Panel 1 Round 3 and Panel 2 Round 1 of the survey and contains variables pertaining to survey administration, demographics, employment, health status, and health insurance.

This file is also available on CD-ROM.","PUBNUMBER":"AHCPR Pub. No. 99-DP03","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-005 1997 P1R3/P2R1 Population Characteristics","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":38,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-022","TITLE":"2000 P4R3/P5R1 Population Characteristics","DATATYPECODE":3,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Point-in-Time File","RELEASEDATE":"2001-07-09T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2000","YEAR":"2000","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is the fifth point in time data file to be released from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC). The data are being released both as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) and in SAS transport format. This public use file provides information on data collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian non-institutionalized population of the United States during the early part of 2000. This file consists of 2000 data obtained in Round 3 of Panel 4 and Round 1 of Panel 5 of the MEPS Household Component and contains variables pertaining to survey administration, demographics, employment, health status, and health insurance..

\r\nThis file is also available on CD-ROM.\r\n\r\n","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 01-DP06","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-022 2000 P4R3/P5R1 Population Characteristics","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":9,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-009","TITLE":"1998 P2R3/P3R1 Population Characteristics","DATATYPECODE":3,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Point-in-Time File","RELEASEDATE":"1999-11-22T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1998","YEAR":"1998","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is the third point in time data file to be released from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC). The data are being released both as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) and in SAS transport format. This public use file provides information on data collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian non-institutionalized population of the United States during the early part of 1998. This file consists of 1998 data obtained in Round 3 of Panel 2 and Round 1 of Panel 3 of the MEPS Household Component and contains variables pertaining to survey administration, demographics, employment, health status, and health insurance.

This file is also available on CD-ROM.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 00-DP01","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-009 1998 P2R3/P3R1 Population Characteristics","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":443,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-196","TITLE":"2018 P22R3/P23R1 Population Characteristics","DATATYPECODE":3,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Point-in-Time File","RELEASEDATE":"2019-04-19T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2018","YEAR":"2018","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is the twenty-third point in time data file to be released from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC). The data are being released both as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file. This public use file provides information on data collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian non-institutionalized population of the United States during the early part of 2018. This file consists of 2018 data obtained in Round 3 of Panel 22 and Round 1 of Panel 23 of the MEPS Household Component and contains variables pertaining to survey administration, demographics, employment, health status, and health insurance. For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-196: 2018 P22R3/P23R1 Population Characteristics","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":422,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-186","TITLE":"2017 P21R3/P22R1 Population Characteristics","DATATYPECODE":3,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Point-in-Time File","RELEASEDATE":"2018-04-27T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2017","YEAR":"2017","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is the twenty-second point in time data file to be released from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC). The data are being released as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements), a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file. This public use file provides information on data collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian non-institutionalized population of the United States during the early part of 2017. This file consists of 2017 data obtained in Round 3 of Panel 21 and Round 1 of Panel 22 of the MEPS Household Component and contains variables pertaining to survey administration, demographics, employment, health status, and health insurance. For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-186: 2017 P21R3/P22R1 Population Characteristics","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":463,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-205","TITLE":"2019 P23R3/P24R1 Population Characteristics","DATATYPECODE":3,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Point-in-Time File","RELEASEDATE":"2020-04-29T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2019","YEAR":"2019","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is the twenty-fourth point in time data file to be released from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC). The data are being released both as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements) a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file. This public use file provides information on data collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian non-institutionalized population of the United States during the early part of 2019. This file consists of 2019 data obtained in Round 3 of Panel 23 and Round 1 of Panel 24 of the MEPS Household Component and contains variables pertaining to survey administration, demographics, employment, health status, and health insurance.\n

Starting in 2018, instead of the XPORT engine, the CPORT procedure is used to create MEPS Public Use Files (PUFS) in transport format (excluding the 2018 Point-in-Time file, HC-036, and HC-036BRR). These CPORT data files (.ssp) cannot be read directly into R or Stata at this time. The ASCII (.dat) data file format can be used instead, along with the corresponding instructions found in the 'Programming Statements' files. In addition, SAS users must use the CIMPORT procedure to restore the transport files (.ssp) into SAS data sets. For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the \n MEPS GitHub page\n \"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-205: 2019 P23R3/P24R1 Population Characteristics","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":1,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-001","TITLE":"1996 Panel Round 1 Population Characteristics","DATATYPECODE":3,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Point-in-Time File","RELEASEDATE":"1997-03-04T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1996","YEAR":"1996","DESCRIPTION":"Household Component person level demographics, employment, health status, and health insurance.

This file contains the first public use data file to be released from the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements, this public use file provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the first part of 1996. This file consists of data obtained in Round 1 of the survey and contains variables pertaining to survey administration, demographics, employment, health status, and health insurance.

The following statistics were derived from this data:

17% of the U.S. population were uninsured throughout the first half of 1996.

19.6% of privately insured children in single parent families get health insurance coverage from a policyholder not residing in their household.

Almost 53% of children covered by Medicaid have at least one parent that works.

A greater percentage of workers are being offered health insurance by their employers in 1996 than in 1987; however, a smaller proportion are accepting insurance.

This file is also available on CD-ROM.","PUBNUMBER":"AHCPR Pub. No. 97-DP20","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-001 1996 Round 1 Population Characteristics","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":21,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-013","TITLE":"1999 P4R1 Population Characteristics","DATATYPECODE":3,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Point-in-Time File","RELEASEDATE":"2000-07-25T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1999","YEAR":"1999","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is the fourth point in time data file to be released from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC). The data are being released both as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) and in SAS transport format. This public use file provides information on data collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian non-institutionalized population of the United States during the early part of 1999. This file consists of 1999 data obtained in Round 1 of Panel 4 of the MEPS Household Component and contains variables pertaining to survey administration, demographics, employment, health status, and health insurance.

\r\nThis file is also available on CD-ROM.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 00-DP02","SHORT_TITLE":"HC-013 1999 P4R1 Population Characteristics","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":240,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-101","TITLE":"2007 P11R3/P12R1 Population Characteristics","DATATYPECODE":3,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Point-in-Time File","RELEASEDATE":"2008-07-31T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2007","YEAR":"2007","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is the twelfth point in time data file to be released from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC). The data are being released both as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) and in SAS transport format. This public use file provides information on data collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian non-institutionalized population of the United States during the early part of 2007. This file consists of 2007 data obtained in Round 3 of Panel 11 and Round 1 of Panel 12 of the MEPS Household Component and contains variables pertaining to survey administration, demographics, employment, health status, and health insurance.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-101 2007 P11R3/P12R1 Population Characteristics","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":87,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-034","TITLE":"2001 P5R3/P6R1 Population Characteristics","DATATYPECODE":3,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Point-in-Time File","RELEASEDATE":"2002-07-24T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2001","YEAR":"2001","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is the sixth point in time data file to be released from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC). The data are being released both as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) and in SAS transport format. This public use file provides information on data collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian non-institutionalized population of the United States during the early part of 2001. This file consists of 2001 data obtained in Round 3 of Panel 5 and Round 1 of Panel 6 of the MEPS Household Component and contains variables pertaining to survey administration, demographics, employment, health status, and health insurance.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-034 2001 P5R3/P6R1 Population Characteristics","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":342,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-151","TITLE":"2013 P17R3/P18R1 Population Characteristics","DATATYPECODE":3,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Point-in-Time File","RELEASEDATE":"2014-05-23T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2013","YEAR":"2013","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is the eighteenth point in time data file to be released from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC). The data are being released both as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) and in SAS transport format. This public use file provides information on data collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian non-institutionalized population of the United States during the early part of 2013. This file consists of 2013 data obtained in Round 3 of Panel 17 and Round 1 of Panel 18 of the MEPS Household Component and contains variables pertaining to survey administration, demographics, employment, health status, and health insurance.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-151: 2013 P17R3/P18R1 Population Characteristics","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":402,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-177","TITLE":"2016 P20R3/P21R1 Population Characteristics","DATATYPECODE":3,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Point-in-Time File","RELEASEDATE":"2017-04-28T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2016","YEAR":"2016","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is the twenty-first point in time data file to be released from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC). The data are being released both as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) and in SAS transport format. This public use file provides information on data collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian non-institutionalized population of the United States during the early part of 2016. This file consists of 2016 data obtained in Round 3 of Panel 20 and Round 1 of Panel 21 of the MEPS Household Component and contains variables pertaining to survey administration, demographics, employment, health status, and health insurance.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-177: 2016 P20R3/P21R1 Population Characteristics","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":380,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-167","TITLE":"2015 P19R3/P20R1 Population Characteristics","DATATYPECODE":3,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Point-in-Time File","RELEASEDATE":"2016-04-22T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2015","YEAR":"2015","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is the twentieth point in time data file to be released from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC). The data are being released both as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) and in SAS transport format. This public use file provides information on data collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian non-institutionalized population of the United States during the early part of 2015. This file consists of 2015 data obtained in Round 3 of Panel 19 and Round 1 of Panel 20 of the MEPS Household Component and contains variables pertaining to survey administration, demographics, employment, health status, and health insurance.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-167: 2015 P19R3/P20R1 Population Characteristics","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":325,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-143","TITLE":"2012 P16R3/P17R1 Population Characteristics","DATATYPECODE":3,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Point-in-Time File","RELEASEDATE":"2013-05-24T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2012","YEAR":"2012","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is the seventeenth point in time data file to be released from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC). The data are being released both as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) and in SAS transport format. This public use file provides information on data collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian non-institutionalized population of the United States during the early part of 2012. This file consists of 2012 data obtained in Round 3 of Panel 16 and Round 1 of Panel 17 of the MEPS Household Component and contains variables pertaining to survey administration, demographics, employment, health status, and health insurance.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-143: 2012 P16R3/P17R1 Population Characteristics","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":200,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-084","TITLE":"2005 P9R3/P10R1 Population Characteristics","DATATYPECODE":3,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Point-in-Time File","RELEASEDATE":"2006-07-26T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2005","YEAR":"2005","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is the tenth point in time data file to be released from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC). The data are being released both as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) and in SAS transport format. This public use file provides information on data collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian non-institutionalized population of the United States during the early part of 2005. This file consists of 2005 data obtained in Round 3 of Panel 9 and Round 1 of Panel 10 of the MEPS Household Component and contains variables pertaining to survey administration, demographics, employment, health status, and health insurance.\r\n\r\n","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-084 2005 P9R3/P10R1 Population Characteristics","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":158,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-064","TITLE":"2003 P7R3/P8R1 Population Characteristics","DATATYPECODE":3,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Point-in-Time File","RELEASEDATE":"2004-07-29T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2003","YEAR":"2003","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is the eighth point in time data file to be released from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC). The data are being released both as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) and in SAS transport format. This public use file provides information on data collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian non-institutionalized population of the United States during the early part of 2003. This file consists of 2003 data obtained in Round 3 of Panel 7 and Round 1 of Panel 8 of the MEPS Household Component and contains variables pertaining to survey administration, demographics, employment, health status, and health insurance.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-064 2003 P7R3/P8R1 Population Characteristics","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":361,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-159","TITLE":"2014 P18R3/P19R1 Population Characteristics","DATATYPECODE":3,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Point-in-Time File","RELEASEDATE":"2015-05-21T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2014","YEAR":"2014","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is the nineteenth point in time data file to be released from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC). The data are being released both as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) and in SAS transport format. This public use file provides information on data collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian non-institutionalized population of the United States during the early part of 2014. This file consists of 2014 data obtained in Round 3 of Panel 18 and Round 1 of Panel 19 of the MEPS Household Component and contains variables pertaining to survey administration, demographics, employment, health status, and health insurance.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-159: 2014 P18R3/P19R1 Population Characteristics","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":276,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-117","TITLE":"2009 P13R3/P14R1 Population Characteristics","DATATYPECODE":3,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Point-in-Time File","RELEASEDATE":"2010-06-23T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2009","YEAR":"2009","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is the fourteenth point in time data file to be released from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC). The data are being released both as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) and in SAS transport format. This public use file provides information on data collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian non-institutionalized population of the United States during the early part of 2009. This file consists of 2009 data obtained in Round 3 of Panel 13 and Round 1 of Panel 14 of the MEPS Household Component and contains variables pertaining to survey administration, demographics, employment, health status, and health insurance.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-117 2009 P13R3/P14R1 Population Characteristics","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":133,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-053","TITLE":"2002 P6R3/P7R1 Population Characteristics","DATATYPECODE":3,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Point-in-Time File","RELEASEDATE":"2003-07-30T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2002","YEAR":"2002","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is the seventh point in time data file to be released from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC). The data are being released both as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) and in SAS transport format. This public use file provides information on data collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian non-institutionalized population of the United States during the early part of 2002. This file consists of 2002 data obtained in Round 3 of Panel 6 and Round 1 of Panel 7 of the MEPS Household Component and contains variables pertaining to survey administration, demographics, employment, health status, and health insurance.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-053 2002 P6R3/P7R1 Population Characteristics","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":220,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-093","TITLE":"2006 P10R3/P11R1 Population Characteristics","DATATYPECODE":3,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Point-in-Time File","RELEASEDATE":"2007-07-25T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2006","YEAR":"2006","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is the eleventh point in time data file to be released from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC). The data are being released both as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) and in SAS transport format. This public use file provides information on data collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian non-institutionalized population of the United States during the early part of 2006. This file consists of 2006 data obtained in Round 3 of Panel 10 and Round 1 of Panel 11 of the MEPS Household Component and contains variables pertaining to survey administration, demographics, employment, health status, and health insurance.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-093 2006 P10R3/P11R1 Population Characteristics","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":292,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-125","TITLE":"2010 P14R3/P15R1 Population Characteristics","DATATYPECODE":3,"DATATYPENAME":"Household Point-in-Time File","RELEASEDATE":"2011-05-31T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2010","YEAR":"2010","DESCRIPTION":"This public use data file is the fifteenth point in time data file to be released from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC). The data are being released both as an ASCII file (with related SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements) and in SAS transport format. This public use file provides information on data collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian non-institutionalized population of the United States during the early part of 2010. This file consists of 2010 data obtained in Round 3 of Panel 14 and Round 1 of Panel 15 of the MEPS Household Component and contains variables pertaining to survey administration, demographics, employment, health status, and health insurance.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-125 2010 P14R3/P15R1 Population Characteristics","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":258,"PUFNUMBER":"NHEA-Aligned MEPS","TITLE":"Projected Expenditure Data Files: 2002-2016","DATATYPECODE":10,"DATATYPENAME":"Projected MEPS Data","RELEASEDATE":"2009-08-21T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2002-2016","YEAR":"2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016","DESCRIPTION":"NHEA-aligned MEPS, projected expenditure files are currently unavailable while updated projections are under production.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"NHEA-Aligned MEPS Projected Data 2002-2016","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":585,"PUFNUMBER":"NHIS Link","TITLE":"1996 - 2024 MEPS-NHIS Link Files","DATATYPECODE":11,"DATATYPENAME":"MEPS/NHIS Link File","RELEASEDATE":"2026-08-28T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1996-2024","YEAR":"1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019,2020,2021,2022,2023,2024","DESCRIPTION":"All of the 1996-2024 completed MEPS-NHIS Link files are available through the AHRQ Data Center. Each MEPS-NHIS Link file contains a crosswalk that allows data users to merge MEPS Full-Year public use files (PUFs) to NHIS person-level public use data files that contain data collected for MEPS respondents in the year prior to their initial year of MEPS participation.\n\t

\n\tSpecifically, for the 1996-2019 MEPS-HC, each MEPS-NHIS Link file contains a crosswalk that enables data users to merge the MEPS Full-Year Population Characteristics PUF, or similarly, the MEPS Full-Year Consolidated PUF with the NHIS person-level PUFs that contain data collected for MEPS respondents in the year prior to their initial year of MEPS participation. In each link file, a record exists for each person in the MEPS Full-Year PUFs. Sample persons in NHIS that do not link to any MEPS sample persons are not represented in the link file. Sample persons in the MEPS file who do not link with persons in the NHIS PUFs have values of 999999, 99, and 99 for the NHIS sample person IDs HHX, FMX, and FPX, respectively.\n\t

\n\tThe 1996-2019 MEPS-HC collect data through an overlapping panel design. Each MEPS Full-Year PUF covers a full calendar year and contains data from Rounds 3, 4, and 5 of the MEPS first panel (which uses the NHIS prior data year 1 as its sampling frame) combined with data from Rounds 1, 2, and 3 of the MEPS second panel (which uses the NHIS prior data year 2 as its sampling frame).\n\t

\n\tFor the 2020 MEPS-HC, the PUFs included three overlapping panels instead of two panels. This design change increased the sample size to compensate for low response rates and data collection challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, the 2020 MEPS-NHIS Link file contains a crosswalk that will enable data users to merge the MEPS Full-Year PUFs with the corresponding NHIS person-level PUFs for three prior years that contain data collected for MEPS respondents in the year prior to their initial year of MEPS participation.\n\t

\n\tFor the 2021 MEPS-HC, the PUFs included four overlapping panels instead of two panels. This design change increased the sample size to compensate for low response rates and data collection challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, the 2021 MEPS-NHIS Link file contains a crosswalk that will enable data users to merge the MEPS Full-Year PUFs with the corresponding NHIS person-level PUFs for four prior years that contain data collected for MEPS respondents in the year prior to their initial year of MEPS participation.\n\t

\n\tFor the 2022 MEPS-HC, the PUFs included three overlapping panels instead of two panels. This design change increased the sample size to compensate for low response rates and data collection challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, the 2022 MEPS-NHIS Link file contains a crosswalk that will enable data users to merge the MEPS Full-Year PUFs with the corresponding NHIS person-level PUFs for 2018, 2020, and 2021 that contain data collected for MEPS respondents in the year prior to their initial year of MEPS participation.\n\t

","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"1996 - 2024 MEPS-NHIS Link Files","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":587,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-036BRR","TITLE":"MEPS 1996-2024 Replicate File for BRR Variance Estimation","DATATYPECODE":12,"DATATYPENAME":"Pooled Linkage File","RELEASEDATE":"2026-08-28T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2024","YEAR":"2024","DESCRIPTION":"This file is provided for use with pooled or individual year data from the MEPS FY 1996-2024 public use files HC 012 (1996), HC 020 (1997), HC 028 (1998), HC 038 (1999), HC 050 (2000), HC 060 (2001), HC-070 (2002), HC-079 (2003), HC-089 (2004), HC-097 (2005), HC-105 (2006), HC-113 (2007), HC-121 (2008), HC-129 (2009), HC-138 (2010), HC-147 (2011), HC-155 (2012), HC-163 (2013), HC-171 (2014), HC-181 (2015), HC-192 (2016), HC-201 (2017), HC-209 (2018), HC-216 (2019), HC-224 (2020), HC-233 (2021),HC-243 (2022), HC-251 (2023), and HC-256 (2024) Released as an ASCII file (with SAS, STATA, SPSS, and R user statements), a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, this person-level file contains the standard MEPS person ID variables for linking with the 1996-2024 MEPS person-level public use files and a set of 128 sample indicators. These flags can be used in conjunction with the sample weights from the full-year sample files to construct the BRR replicate weights needed to calculate BRR variances. There is one record for each of the 483,346 persons who are on the MEPS FY 1996-2024 public use files. The 1996-2024 combined variance stratum and PSU variables are released on HC-036.\n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-036BRR: MEPS 1996-2024 Replicate File for BRR Variance Estimation","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":586,"PUFNUMBER":"HC-036","TITLE":"1996-2024 Pooled Linkage File for Common Variance Structure","DATATYPECODE":12,"DATATYPENAME":"Pooled Linkage File","RELEASEDATE":"2026-08-28T00:30:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"2024","YEAR":"2024","DESCRIPTION":"This file is provided for use with pooled or individual year data from the MEPS FY 1996-2023 public use files (HC-012, HC-020, HC-028, HC-038, HC-050, HC-060, HC-070, HC-079, HC-089, HC-097, HC-105, HC-113, HC-121, HC-129, HC-138, HC-147, HC-155, HC-163, HC-171, HC-181, HC-192, HC-201, HC-209, HC-216, HC-224, HC-233, HC-243, HC-251, and HC-256). Released as an ASCII file (with SAS, STATA, SPSS, and R user statements), a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, this person-level file contains 1996-2024 combined variance stratum and PSU variables, along with the standard MEPS person ID variables, for linking with the 1996-2024 MEPS person-level public use files. There is one record for each of the 483,346 persons who are on the MEPS FY 1996-2024 public use files.\n\tFor more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page\"externallink\".","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"MEPS HC-036: 1996-2024 Pooled Linkage File for Common Variance Structure","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":126,"PUFNUMBER":"LINK_96HC/IC","TITLE":"Household Component - Insurance Component Linked Data for 1996","DATATYPECODE":13,"DATATYPENAME":"HC/IC Link File","RELEASEDATE":"2003-07-26T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1996","YEAR":"1996","DESCRIPTION":"The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC) collects a variety of information on health insurance coverage from households in the survey. For many households, health insurance available through a household member's employer is a key source of coverage. However, many details about the health insurance plans offered by and/or obtained through employers are not readily available from household respondents. For example, jobholders may know the amount of their contributions toward their employer-based health insurance premiums, but few of them can accurately report the amount paid by the employer. The employer is the best source for much of this information.

\r\n\r\nIn order to fill this data gap, the employers of MEPS HC jobholders are contacted through the MEPS Insurance Component, an establishment (or employer), rather than household-based, survey. Employers are asked about health insurance offerings, premiums, employee contributions to premiums and other plan details for their establishment as a whole. This information is then linked, via a data file, to data collected during the household survey for the jobholder to provide a more complete picture of the jobholder's insurance options.

\r\n\r\nMEPS HC-IC link data cannot be released on a Public Use File so that the confidentiality of employers responding to the MEPS IC survey is protected. Unlike person-level files from the MEPS HC, where confidentiality of individuals can be more easily preserved by withholding some data elements and top-coding others, it is far more difficult to produce a file that protects the identity of responding establishments.

\r\n\r\nHowever, confidential files containing the linked health insurance information for jobholders are available for research purposes through the AHRQ Data Center. Data users must apply in advance to get access to the Data Center and there are significant restrictions on what data can be taken out of the Center. Potential users should also note that significant survey non-response, compounded by the multiple stages of the collection process, prevents these linked data from being used to make nationally representative estimates and results cannot be generalized beyond the sample of persons included in the file. Thus, no weight has been constructed for these files.

\r\n\r\nUsers interested in looking at employer-based health insurance over multiple years should be aware that the 1996 link file is different than the 1997 and later files. In 1996, the MEPS IC surveyed each employer about the coverage and choices for the specific jobholder identified in the MEPS HC. For 1997 and beyond, the MEPS IC collected information about the establishment's overall health insurance offerings, not about the MEPS HC jobholder's choices. A complex matching process was used to identify which employer-offered plan was selected by the jobholder, if coverage was obtained. There are other significant differences in the resulting data files. Consult the survey documentation for specifics.

\r\n\r\nDetailed documentation of the research files for 1996, including additional survey details, a crosswalk of variables to the MEPS IC questionnaires, the codebook, and a file containing matched and held plans for federal employees in the HC survey are available for download.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-IC Linked Data, 1996","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":129,"PUFNUMBER":"LINK_99HC/IC","TITLE":"Household Component - Insurance Component Linked Data for 1999","DATATYPECODE":13,"DATATYPENAME":"HC/IC Link File","RELEASEDATE":"2003-07-29T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1999","YEAR":"1999","DESCRIPTION":"The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC) collects a variety of information on health insurance coverage from households in the survey. For many households, health insurance available through a household member's employer is a key source of coverage. However, many details about the health insurance plans offered by and/or obtained through employers are not readily available from household respondents. For example, jobholders may know the amount of their contributions toward their employer-based health insurance premiums, but few of them can accurately report the amount paid by the employer. The employer is the best source for much of this information.

\r\n\r\nIn order to fill this data gap, the employers of MEPS HC jobholders are contacted through the MEPS Insurance Component, an establishment (or employer), rather than household-based, survey. Employers are asked about health insurance offerings, premiums, employee contributions to premiums and other plan details for their establishment as a whole. This information is then linked, via a data file, to data collected during the household survey for the jobholder to provide a more complete picture of the jobholder's insurance options.

\r\n\r\nMEPS HC-IC link data cannot be released on a Public Use File so that the confidentiality of employers responding to the MEPS IC survey is protected. Unlike person-level files from the MEPS HC, where confidentiality of individuals can be more easily preserved by withholding some data elements and top-coding others, it is far more difficult to produce a file that protects the identity of responding establishments.

\r\n\r\nHowever, confidential files containing the linked health insurance information for jobholders are available for research purposes through the AHRQ Data Center. Data users must apply in advance to get access to the Data Center and there are significant restrictions on what data can be taken out of the Center. Potential users should also note that significant survey non-response, compounded by the multiple stages of the collection process, prevents these linked data from being used to make nationally representative estimates and results cannot be generalized beyond the sample of persons included in the file. Thus, no weight has been constructed for these files.

\r\n\r\nUsers interested in looking at employer-based health insurance over multiple years should be aware that the 1996 link file is different than the 1997 and later files. In 1996, the MEPS IC surveyed each employer about the coverage and choices for the specific jobholder identified in the MEPS HC. For 1997 and beyond, the MEPS IC collected information about the establishment's overall health insurance offerings, not about the MEPS HC jobholder's choices. A complex matching process was used to identify which employer-offered plan was selected by the jobholder, if coverage was obtained.

\r\n\r\nDetailed documentation of the research files for 1999, including additional survey details, a crosswalk of variables to the MEPS IC questionnaires, and the codebook, are available for download.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-IC Linked Data, 1999","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":128,"PUFNUMBER":"LINK_98HC/IC","TITLE":"Household Component - Insurance Component Linked Data for 1998","DATATYPECODE":13,"DATATYPENAME":"HC/IC Link File","RELEASEDATE":"2003-07-28T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1998","YEAR":"1998","DESCRIPTION":"The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC) collects a variety of information on health insurance coverage from households in the survey. For many households, health insurance available through a household member's employer is a key source of coverage. However, many details about the health insurance plans offered by and/or obtained through employers are not readily available from household respondents. For example, jobholders may know the amount of their contributions toward their employer-based health insurance premiums, but few of them can accurately report the amount paid by the employer. The employer is the best source for much of this information.

\r\n\r\nIn order to fill this data gap, the employers of MEPS HC jobholders are contacted through the MEPS Insurance Component, an establishment (or employer), rather than household-based, survey. Employers are asked about health insurance offerings, premiums, employee contributions to premiums and other plan details for their establishment as a whole. This information is then linked, via a data file, to data collected during the household survey for the jobholder to provide a more complete picture of the jobholder's insurance options.

\r\n\r\nMEPS HC-IC link data cannot be released on a Public Use File so that the confidentiality of employers responding to the MEPS IC survey is protected. Unlike person-level files from the MEPS HC, where confidentiality of individuals can be more easily preserved by withholding some data elements and top-coding others, it is far more difficult to produce a file that protects the identity of responding establishments.

\r\n\r\nHowever, confidential files containing the linked health insurance information for jobholders are available for research purposes through the AHRQ Data Center. Data users must apply in advance to get access to the Data Center and there are significant restrictions on what data can be taken out of the Center. Potential users should also note that significant survey non-response, compounded by the multiple stages of the collection process, prevents these linked data from being used to make nationally representative estimates and results cannot be generalized beyond the sample of persons included in the file. Thus, no weight has been constructed for these files.

\r\n\r\nUsers interested in looking at employer-based health insurance over multiple years should be aware that the 1996 link file is different than the 1997 and later files. In 1996, the MEPS IC surveyed each employer about the coverage and choices for the specific jobholder identified in the MEPS HC. For 1997 and beyond, the MEPS IC collected information about the establishment's overall health insurance offerings, not about the MEPS HC jobholder's choices. A complex matching process was used to identify which employer-offered plan was selected by the jobholder, if coverage was obtained.

\r\n\r\nDetailed documentation of the research files for 1998, including additional survey details, a crosswalk of variables to the MEPS IC questionnaires, and the codebook, are available for download.

","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-IC Linked Data, 1998","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":127,"PUFNUMBER":"LINK_97HC/IC","TITLE":"Household Component - Insurance Component Linked Data for 1997","DATATYPECODE":13,"DATATYPENAME":"HC/IC Link File","RELEASEDATE":"2003-07-27T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1997","YEAR":"1997","DESCRIPTION":"The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS HC) collects a variety of information on health insurance coverage from households in the survey. For many households, health insurance available through a household member's employer is a key source of coverage. However, many details about the health insurance plans offered by and/or obtained through employers are not readily available from household respondents. For example, jobholders may know the amount of their contributions toward their employer-based health insurance premiums, but few of them can accurately report the amount paid by the employer. The employer is the best source for much of this information.

\r\n\r\nIn order to fill this data gap, the employers of MEPS HC jobholders are contacted through the MEPS Insurance Component, an establishment (or employer), rather than household-based, survey. Employers are asked about health insurance offerings, premiums, employee contributions to premiums and other plan details for their establishment as a whole. This information is then linked, via a data file, to data collected during the household survey for the jobholder to provide a more complete picture of the jobholder's insurance options.

\r\n\r\nMEPS HC-IC link data cannot be released on a Public Use File so that the confidentiality of employers responding to the MEPS IC survey is protected. Unlike person-level files from the MEPS HC, where confidentiality of individuals can be more easily preserved by withholding some data elements and top-coding others, it is far more difficult to produce a file that protects the identity of responding establishments.

\r\n\r\nHowever, confidential files containing the linked health insurance information for jobholders are available for research purposes through the AHRQ Data Center. Data users must apply in advance to get access to the Data Center and there are significant restrictions on what data can be taken out of the Center. Potential users should also note that significant survey non-response, compounded by the multiple stages of the collection process, prevents these linked data from being used to make nationally representative estimates and results cannot be generalized beyond the sample of persons included in the file. Thus, no weight has been constructed for these files.

\r\n\r\nUsers interested in looking at employer-based health insurance over multiple years should be aware that the 1996 link file is different than the 1997 and later files. In 1996, the MEPS IC surveyed each employer about the coverage and choices for the specific jobholder identified in the MEPS HC. For 1997 and beyond, the MEPS IC collected information about the establishment's overall health insurance offerings, not about the MEPS HC jobholder's choices. A complex matching process was used to identify which employer-offered plan was selected by the jobholder, if coverage was obtained.

\r\n\r\nDetailed documentation of the research files for 1997, including additional survey details, a crosswalk of variables to the MEPS IC questionnaires, and the codebook, are available for download.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"HC-IC Linked Data, 1997","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":66,"PUFNUMBER":"NHC-008","TITLE":"Nursing Home Expenditures and Sources of Payment Data: Bill-Level File","DATATYPECODE":14,"DATATYPENAME":"Nursing Home Component","RELEASEDATE":"2001-10-15T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1996","YEAR":"1996","DESCRIPTION":"Nursing Home Component data files are not available for public use, but researchers with approved projects can access the files at the AHRQ Data Center.

This bill-level file contains data obtained in Rounds 2 and 3 (covering the full year, for periods that persons were resident in a nursing home), for a sample of 5,899 persons; one record per bill (42,437 bills). This file consists of variables pertaining to charges and payments for basic services (room and board), number of days billed, sources of payment (Medicaid, Medicare, out-of-pocket, private insurance, or other), charges and payments for ancillary services, and corresponding sources of payment. The data items correspond with questions from the Expenditure Questionnaire (the EX questions). Most of the data items provided on this file have been edited or edited and imputed. Data are included on persons sampled as January 1, 1996 residents and those sampled as a 1996 admission to the sampled nursing home. Together these samples represent all persons who used a nursing home any time during 1996.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"NHC-008 Expenditures and Payment Data: Bill-Level","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":64,"PUFNUMBER":"NHC-005","TITLE":"Cross-Sectional Health Status Data Collected
from Nursing Home Sources, Time 1 and 2 Data","DATATYPECODE":14,"DATATYPENAME":"Nursing Home Component","RELEASEDATE":"2001-10-10T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1996","YEAR":"1996","DESCRIPTION":"Nursing Home Component data files are not available for public use, but researchers with approved projects can access the files at the AHRQ Data Center.

\r\n\r\nThis person-level file contains data obtained in Rounds 1, 2, and 3, for a sample of 5,899 persons; one record per person. Most of the health status items collected in the nursing home are based on the Resident Assessment Form of the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), know as the minimum data set (MDS). The variables pertain to the sample person's cognitive skills, hearing and communication status, functional status, continence, psychosocial well-being, active diagnoses and infections, dental health, pressure sores, and use of restraints. Health status data is collected using the facility Health Status Questionnaire. The survey design permits the interviewer to abstract health status data directly from the MDS, and also provides a questionnaire mechanism to collect data from persons with no MDS forms.

\r\n\r\nAmong persons who used a nursing home any time during 1996, the following statistics were derived from these data:

\r\n\r\n2,215,000 persons were alive as of December 31, 1996 while 882,000 were dead by that same date.

\r\n\r\n1,276,000 persons had 6 limitations in activities of daily living (ADLs). 640,000 had five, 328,000 had four, 377,000 had two to three, 188,000 had one and 288,000 and no ADL limitations.

\r\n\r\n1,829,000 persons had no incontinence problem while 267,000 had urinary incontinence and 1,000,000 had bowel incontinence or urinary and bowel incontinence.

\r\n\r\n1,593,000 persons had no mental disorder. 1,048,000 had no dementia and the remaining 455,000 had a mental disorder other than dementia. Data are included on persons sampled as January 1, 1996 residents and those sampled as a 1996 admission to the sampled nursing home. Together these samples represent all persons who used a nursing home any time during 1996.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"NHC-005 Cross-Sectional Health Status Data","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":61,"PUFNUMBER":"NHC-002","TITLE":"Person Characteristics, Full-Year Demographics, Income and Assets","DATATYPECODE":14,"DATATYPENAME":"Nursing Home Component","RELEASEDATE":"2001-09-28T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1996","YEAR":"1996","DESCRIPTION":"Nursing Home Component data files are not available for public use, but researchers with approved projects can access the files at the AHRQ Data Center.

\r\n\r\nThis data file contains data obtained in Rounds 1, 2, and 3, for a sample of 5,899 persons; one record per person. The variables pertain to basic demographics, prior use of long-term care, family relationships, income and asset data including home ownership, key residence history data (e.g., dates of NH admission, date of death, etc.), characteristics about the nursing home resident's spouse, and sampling and variance estimation variables. These data items correspond with questions from the Facility Background and Insurance Questionnaire and the background section of the Community Questionnaire (the BQ questions), and the income and assets questions from the Community Questionnaire and the Expenditure Questionnaire (the IA questions). Most of the data items provided on this file have been edited and imputed.

\r\n\r\nThe following statistics were derived from these data:

\r\n\r\nOf the 3,097,000 persons that used a nursing home any time during the 1996, half were residents in the nursing home on January 1, and half were admitted to the nursing home during the year (1,560,000 and 1,537,000, respectively).

\r\n\r\nWith regards to poverty level status there were 723,000 persons with an income below poverty. In addition, there were 1,296,000 persons with an income of at least poverty but less than 200% of poverty. 734,000 persons had an income of 200% of poverty but less than 400% of the poverty level. Lastly, 343,000 persons had an income 400% or greater than the poverty level.

\r\n\r\nThe majority of persons did not own a home. Of the total nursing home population 2,012,000 persons did not own a home while 995,000 did. Data are included on persons sampled as January 1, 1996 residents and those sampled as a 1996 admission to the sampled nursing home. Together these samples represent all persons who used a nursing home any time during 1996.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"NHC-002 Person Demographics, Income and Assets","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":65,"PUFNUMBER":"NHC-007","TITLE":"Nursing Home Expenditures and Sources of Payment Data: Person-Level File","DATATYPECODE":14,"DATATYPENAME":"Nursing Home Component","RELEASEDATE":"2001-10-16T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1996","YEAR":"1996","DESCRIPTION":"Nursing Home Component data files are not available for public use, but researchers with approved projects can access the files at the AHRQ Data Center.

This person-level file contains data obtained in Rounds 2 and 3 (covering the full year, for periods that persons were resident in a nursing home), for a sample of 5,899 persons; one record per person. The data items have been constructed from the edited and imputed data on the Expenditure Bill-Level File (which correspond with questions from the Expenditure Questionnaire, (the EX questions)).

The following statistics were derived from these data:

Total expenses for services in nursing homes amounted to $69.9 billion.

The mean annual expense per person was $22,561.

The mean expense per day was $118.

Medicaid paid 44% and Medicare paid 19% of the total expenses. 30% of total expenses were paid out-of-pocket, while private insurance paid 4% and other sources of payment paid the remaining 3%. Data are included on persons sampled as January 1, 1996 residents and those sampled as a 1996 admission to the sampled nursing home. Together these samples represent all persons who used a nursing home any time during 1996.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"NHC-007 Expenditures and Payment Data: Person-Level","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":60,"PUFNUMBER":"NHC-001P","TITLE":"Person Characteristics Round 1 File","DATATYPECODE":14,"DATATYPENAME":"Nursing Home Component","RELEASEDATE":"1997-02-24T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1996","YEAR":"1996","DESCRIPTION":"Nursing Home Component data files are not available for public use, but researchers with approved projects can access the files at the AHRQ Data Center.

This data file provide information on a nationally representative sample of nursing homes and current residents as of January 1, 1996 within those nursing homes.

The first file consists of data obtained in Round 1 from the nursing home facilities and contains variables pertaining to characteristics of the facilities including detailed information on the facility's structure (e.g., part of a retirement center or hospital), number of beds by licensing and certification categories, ownership, number of residents, special care units by type and size, and staffing (n=952 nursing homes).

The second file is a person-level file that contains point-in-time measures obtained during Round 1. Persons sampled as January 1, 1996 residents and classified as eligible and responding are included (n=3,747 residents). Data items include demographics, health status, insurance coverage, and medical conditions as reported by facility sources. The person-level file can be linked to the facility-level file in order to make person-specific estimates while controlling for facility-level characteristics (however, it is not possible to make facility-level estimates while controlling for person characteristics given the sample design of MEPS NHC).

The following statistics were derived from these data:

Almost 66% of U.S. nursing homes in 1996 were operated for-profit.

Over 80% of nursing home residents needed help with 3 or more activities of daily living.

Almost half of all nursing home residents have some form of dementia.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 97-DP21","SHORT_TITLE":"NHC-001P Person Characteristics Round 1","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":62,"PUFNUMBER":"NHC-003","TITLE":"Facility Characteristics Full-Year File","DATATYPECODE":14,"DATATYPENAME":"Nursing Home Component","RELEASEDATE":"2001-11-05T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1996","YEAR":"1996","DESCRIPTION":"Nursing Home Component data files are not available for public use, but researchers with approved projects can access the files at the AHRQ Data Center.

This file contains characteristics on approximately 1,300 nursing homes. There is one record per facility. These data were collected on Rounds 1-3 from sampled facilities and new facilities (i.e., nursing homes that sampled persons transferred to during 1996). This file consists of variables pertaining to characteristics of the facilities including information on the facility's structure (e.g., part of a retirement center or hospital); number of beds by licensing and certification categories; ownership and chain affiliation; number of residents; special care units by type, size and residents; staffing (at two points in time); services routinely provided by trained providers to residents, non-residents on-site and non-residents off-site; physician practice information; whether the facility vaccinated residents for pneumonia and influenza. These data items correspond with questions from the Round 1 Sampled Facility Questionnaire, the Round 2 Sampled Facility Questionnaire, the Round 3 Sampled Facility Questionnaire, the Round 2 New Facility Questionnaire, and the Round 3 New Facility Questionnaire. Most of the Round 1 data items provided on this file have been edited, or edited and imputed.

Person-level files from the MEPS NHC can be linked to this facility-level file in order to make person-specific estimates while controlling for facility-level characteristics; however, it is not possible to make facility-level estimates while controlling for person characteristics (facility case mix) given the sample design for MEPS NHC.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"NHC-003 Facility Characteristics","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":63,"PUFNUMBER":"NHC-004","TITLE":"Person Characteristics, Full-Year Health Insurance Coverage","DATATYPECODE":14,"DATATYPENAME":"Nursing Home Component","RELEASEDATE":"2001-10-17T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1996","YEAR":"1996","DESCRIPTION":"Nursing Home Component data files are not available for public use, but researchers with approved projects can access the files at the AHRQ Data Center.

This person-level file contains data obtained in Rounds 1, 2, and 3, for a sample of 5,899 persons; one record per person. The variables pertain to health insurance coverage including date of first Medicaid coverage, place of first Medicaid coverage, and Medicaid coverage at admission. The remaining health insurance coverage items are measured as of January 1, 1996 for persons sampled as a January 1 resident, and at the time of admission for persons sampled as an admission. These include Medicare Part A coverage, Medicare Part B coverage, private health insurance coverage (including Medigap), private long-term care coverage, CHAMPUS/CHAMPVA coverage, other VA coverage, and other public assistance health insurance coverage. The data provided on this file corresponds with the insurance questions from the Facility Background and Insurance Questionnaire (IN questions), and the insurance section of the Community Questionnaire (the IN questions). Variables that measure sources of payment for nursing home care are not provided on this file (but are provided on the Expenditure file).

The following statistic was derived from these data:

Medicaid enrollees represented 53 percent of all 1996 nursing home residents. Data are included on persons sampled as January 1, 1996 residents and those sampled as a 1996 admission to the sampled nursing home. Together these samples represent all persons who used a nursing home any time during 1996.","PUBNUMBER":null,"SHORT_TITLE":"NHC-004 Person Health Insurance Coverage","REPLACEDLINK":null},{"ID":59,"PUFNUMBER":"NHC-001F","TITLE":"Facility Characteristics Round 1 File","DATATYPECODE":14,"DATATYPENAME":"Nursing Home Component","RELEASEDATE":"1997-02-24T00:00:00","YEAR_FOR_DISPLAY":"1996","YEAR":"1996","DESCRIPTION":"This data file provide information on a nationally representative sample of nursing homes and current residents as of January 1, 1996 within those nursing homes.

The first file consists of data obtained in Round 1 from the nursing home facilities and contains variables pertaining to characteristics of the facilities including detailed information on the facility's structure (e.g., part of a retirement center or hospital), number of beds by licensing and certification categories, ownership, number of residents, special care units by type and size, and staffing (n=952 nursing homes).

The second file is a person-level file that contains point-in-time measures obtained during Round 1. Persons sampled as January 1, 1996 residents and classified as eligible and responding are included (n=3,747 residents). Data items include demographics, health status, insurance coverage, and medical conditions as reported by facility sources. The person-level file can be linked to the facility-level file in order to make person-specific estimates while controlling for facility-level characteristics (however, it is not possible to make facility-level estimates while controlling for person characteristics given the sample design of MEPS NHC).

The following statistics were derived from these data:

Almost 66% of U.S. nursing homes in 1996 were operated for-profit.

Over 80% of nursing home residents needed help with 3 or more activities of daily living.

Almost half of all nursing home residents have some form of dementia.","PUBNUMBER":"AHRQ Pub. No. 97-DP21","SHORT_TITLE":"NHC-001F Facility Characteristics Round 1","REPLACEDLINK":null}]