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.
For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page.
*The PDF version of the codebook is recommended for printing; the HTML version is database driven and lets you navigate quickly to details on each variable.
**Right-click on the data file link, then select Save Target As or Save Link As to download the file.
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