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.
Under Data Updates Updated data for the MEPS HC-223: 2020 Person Round Plan Public Use File are now available. When the data were originally released in September 2022, an incorrect inflation factor had been applied, affecting OOPPREMX (monthly out-of-pocket premium amount) and OOPX12X (annual out-of-pocket premium amount).
Under New Data Files The MEPS HC-229H: 2021 Home Health File provides detailed information on home health events for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States. Data from the Home Health event file can be used to make estimates of home health (HH) event utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2021.
Under New Data Files The MEPS HC-229C: 2021 Other Medical Expenses 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 2021 calendar year.
Under New Data Files The MEPS HC-229B: 2021 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.
New Publications Statistical Brief 548: Treated Prevalence of Commonly Reported Health Conditions, 2016 to 2020. This Statistical Brief highlights changes in treated prevalence for the most common medical conditions in 2020 relative to the years 2016 through 2019. Estimates are based on the 2016 to 2020 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey-Household Component (MEPS-HC) public use files.
Under New Data Files The 1996-2021 MEPS-NHIS Link files contain crosswalks that will enable data users to merge the MEPS Full-Year Population Characteristics PUF, or similarly, the MEPS Full-Year Consolidated PUF, with the corresponding NHIS person-level PUFs that contain data collected for MEPS respondents in the year prior to their initial year of MEPS participation. For reasons of confidentiality, the MEPS-NHIS Link files are available only through the AHRQ Data Center.
AHRQ will be conducting a series of 3 hands-on webinars in June 2023. This series of three webinars will focus on providing hands-on instructions on how to link MEPS Medical Conditions data to Prescribed Medicines data in three separate programming languages. Each webinar will consist of lectures designed to provide a general overview along with hands-on sessions on the challenges researchers face while linking the MEPS-HC Medical Conditions public use data file to the Prescribed Medicines public use data file. There will be three separate sessions in which sample R (June 6th); STATA (June 8th) and SAS (June 13th) exercises will be demonstrated, along with time assigned for Q&A. Register here.
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