The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) is a set of
large-scale surveys of families and individuals, their medical
providers, and employers across the United States. MEPS is the most complete
source of data on the cost and use of health care and health insurance
coverage. Learn more about MEPS.
New Publications Statistical Brief 550: Healthcare Expenditures for Heart Disease among Adults Aged 18 and Older in the U.S. Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population, 2020. This Statistical Brief examines the receipt of any treatment for heart disease by selected characteristics of the population, presents healthcare expenditures on heart disease by type of medical service, and examines the share of expenses by service categories and sources of payment among adults in the U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized population based on the 2020 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey-Household Component (MEPS-HC). All estimates are weighted to account for nonresponse and the MEPS-HC complex survey design. Only differences between statistically significant estimates at the .05 level are discussed in the text.
Under New Data Files The MEPS HC-233: 2021 Full Year Consolidated Data File is a nationally-representative data file of all persons in the U.S. civilian non-institutionalized population in 2021. The file contains person-level variables for all persons participating in the 2021 MEPS, including variables from the 2021 Population Characteristics PUF, Self-Administered Questionnaire (SAQ) variables, Diabetes Care Survey (DCS) variables, fully-imputed employment variables, health care use variables, income variables, and health care expenditure variables.
Under New Data Files The MEPS HC-232: 2021 Person Round Plan Public Use File is one in a series of data releases drawn from the 2021 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.
Under New Data Files The MEPS HC-231: 2021 Medical Conditions File 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.
Under New Data Files The MEPS HC-229I: Appendix to MEPS 2021 Event Files contains the Conditions-Event link (CLNK) file, which includes variables needed to link the 2021 Conditions file (HC-231) with the 2021 event files.
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