This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 1997 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 1997. Each record represents one household-reported office-based medical provider visit reported during the 1997 portion of round 3, and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 1, as well as rounds 1, 2 and the 1997 portion of round 3 for Panel 2 of the survey.
The Office-Based Provider Public Use Data File consists of two event-level data files. File 1 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. File 2 contains unimputed expenditure variables and is intended for analysts who want to perform their own imputations to handle missing data.
SPSS and STATA Programming Statements have been added.
Update #1: 12/13/02
The data user/analyst should note that the variable SURGPROC on the 1996 to 1999 Hospital Inpatient Stays event files is a different variable from the one with the same name on the 1996 to 1999 Emergency Room Visits, Office-Based Medical Provider Visits, and Outpatient Visits event files. This is indicated by the different labels and formatted values for these variables, which are as follows.
On the Hospital Inpatient Stays file:
SURGPROC has label = MAIN SURGICAL PROCEDURE, and these formatted values:
1 =
APPENDECTOMY
2 =
ARTHROSCOPIC SURGERY (VISUAL OF JOINTS
3 =
CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION
4 =
CATARACT SURGERY
6 =
CIRCUMCISION
7 =
CORONARY BYPASS
8 =
D AND C (DILATION AND CURETTAGE)
9 =
DENTAL SURGERY 3 33,266
10 =
GALLBLADDER SURGERY (CHOLECYSTECTOMY)
11 =
HERNIA REPAIR
12 =
HYSTERECTOMY
13 =
JOINT (HIP/KNEE) REPLACEMENT SURGERY
14 =
MASTECTOMY/LUMPECTOMY
15 =
PACEMAKER INSERTION
16 =
PLASTIC/RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY
17 =
PROSTATE SURGERY (PROSTATECTOMY)
18 =
SPINAL DISC SURGERY (SLIPPED/PROLAPSED)
19 =
SURGICAL SETTING OF BROKEN BONE
20 =
THYROID SURGERY (THYROIDECTOMY)
21 =
TISSUE BIOPSY
22 =
TONSILLECTOMY
91
OTHER
On the Emergency Room Visits, Office-Based Medical Provider Visits, and Outpatient Visits event files:
SURGPROC has label = WAS SURG PROC PERFORMED ON P THIS VISIT, and formatted values:
1 =
YES
2 =
NO
NOTE: For the year 2000 set of event files, the variable SURGPROC will be renamed to MAINSURG on the Hospital Inpatient Stays File.
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