The AHRQ Data Center is a place where researchers with approved projects can access MEPS files that are not available for public use. These files may contain data that AHRQ has not fully edited, or may contain levels of detail that are not approved for public release. Researchers visiting the
AHRQ Data Center are assigned a workstation on which they may work with the restricted MEPS data elements approved for their project. Please see the Data Center page for more information.