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MEPS HC-118G: 2008 Office-Based Medical Provider Visits File
Release date: October 2010

Notes on viewing and downloading files
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This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2008 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Medical Provider Visits File provides detailed information on office-based medical provider visits. Data are gathered from a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of office-based medical provider utilization and expenditures for calendar year 2008. Each record represents one household-reported office-based medical provider visit reported during the 2008 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 12, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2008 portion of round 3 for Panel 13 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2008). The Office-Based Provider Public Use Data File contains characteristics associated with the office-based visit, such as, date of the visit, time spent with the provider, types of treatment and services received, types of medicine prescribed, condition codes, expenditures, source of payment associated with the visit and imputed expenditure variables.

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Documentation
File type
Documentation PDF (304 KB) / HTML
Codebook PDF (131 KB) / HTML*
SAS Programming Statements TXT (52 KB)
SPSS Programming Statements TXT (21 KB)
STATA Programming Statements TXT (25 KB)

Data
File type**
Data File, ASCII format ZIP (3.2 MB) / EXE (3.3 MB)
Data File, SAS transport format ZIP (4.6 MB) / EXE (4.7 MB)


Questionnaires — see Survey Questionnaires
*The PDF version of the codebook is recommended for printing; the HTML version is database driven and lets you navigate quickly to details on each variable.
**Right-click on the data file link, then select Save Target As or Save Link As to download the file.

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