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 Working Paper 22001: Evaluating Alternative Benchmarks to Improve Identification of Outlier Drug Prices for Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Prescribed Medicines Data Editing. The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Prescribed Medicines (PMED) file provides detailed information on prescription drug use and expenditures for a nationally representative sample, including detailed information on drug acquisitions from pharmacies frequented by members of sampled households (i.e., quantity dispensed, total retail price, total amount paid by source of payment, and National Drug Code (NDC)). This goal of this study is to improve identification and editing for outliers in the retail prices reported by pharmacy providers.
Under New Data Files The MEPS HC-225: MEPS Panel 24 Longitudinal Data 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.
Under New Data Files The MEPS HC-221: 2020 Food Security File contains food security data collected from 11,992 households who participated in the MEPS Household Component of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey in 2020.
Under New Data Files The MEPS HC-223: 2020 Person Round Plan File is one in a series of data releases drawn from the 2020 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). This release contains the Person Round Plan (PRPL) file for 2020. 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.
New Publications Methodology Report 35: Introducing the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey-Insurance Component with Administrative Records (MEPS-ICAR). This report introduces a new dataset, the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey-Insurance Component with Administrative Records (MEPS-ICAR), which consists of MEPS-IC survey data on establishments and their health insurance benefits packages linked to Decennial Census data and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) administrative tax records. In addition, this report details the methods used for producing the MEPS-ICAR and report presents statistics characterizing the match rate and the MEPS-ICAR data themselves.
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