New York State Inpatient Discharges With Charges And Outcomes

2015 discharge-level records detail patient characteristics, diagnoses, treatments, and charges from the Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System (SPARCS). The de-identified data, published by health.data.ny.gov, excludes protected health information such as full dates and direct identifiers.

Use Cases

• Model Length of Stay using Age Group, APR Severity of Illness Description, and CCS Procedure Code.
• Analyze disparities in Total Charges by Race, Ethnicity, and Hospital County.
• Predict Patient Disposition (e.g., home, skilled nursing facility) from APR Risk of Mortality and Type of Admission.
• Cluster patient cohorts by clinical profiles using APR DRG Description, CCS Diagnosis Description, and APR MDC Description.

Strengths

• Contains 30 detailed columns covering demographics, clinical codes, and financials like Total Charges and Total Costs.
• Data is de-identified per HIPAA, with direct identifiers like full dates redacted.

Limitations

• Dataset is limited to a single year (2015), restricting longitudinal analysis.
• Geographic coverage is specific to New York State facilities, limiting generalizability.
• Sample size and potential class imbalances are unknown without row count.

Provenance

Source

health.data.ny.gov via the Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System (SPARCS).

Collection Method

Administrative discharge data collection from New York State hospitals.

Time Range

2015

Freshness

Data is from 2015, with metadata last updated in 2025.

Geography

New York State, United States.