Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Data Release Schedule

MEPS Household Component public use data files (including documentation and codebooks) and Insurance Component summary data tables are released on this website on a regular annual schedule. The schedule for 2022 is as follows:

March 2022:

2020 Jobs File
2020 Full Year Population Characteristics File

July 2022:

2020 Hospital Inpatient Stays File
2020 Prescribed Medicines File
2020 Emergency Room Visits File
2020 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits File
2020 Outpatient Visits File
2021 MEPS-IC Private Sector Tables

August 2022:

2020 Other Medical Expenses File
2020 Dental Visits File
2020 Home Health File
1996-2020 Pooled Linkage File for Common Variance Structure
1996-2020 Replicate File for BRR Variance Estimation
Appendix to MEPS 2020 Event Files
2020 Full Year Consolidated Data File

September 2022:

2020 Person Round Plan File
2020 Food Security File
2020 MEPS Panel 24 Longitudinal Data File

October 2022:

2020 Medical Conditions File
MEPS Insurance Component Chartbook 2021

November 2022:

2021 MEPS-IC Public Sector Tables
2021 MEPS-IC Civilian Tables

Page last updated: October 07, 2022

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