Institutional Provider Network Data for Medicaid and Commercial Plans, Q4 2018

Quarter 4 2018 data on health facilities and ancillary service providers participating in health plan networks from October to December. The dataset includes information on hospitals, labs, and home care agencies, collected from Medicaid, Commercial, and Exchange plans by the Department of Health. It contains 30 columns such as PlanName, Address1_std, Longitude, and various service type and plan participation indicators.

Use Cases

• Geospatial mapping of provider locations using Longitude and Address1_std for network density analysis.
• Analyzing plan participation patterns across facility types using PlanName, servtype columns (e.g., servtype05, servtype13), and plan indicator columns (e.g., commind, harpind).
• Classifying provider service types (e.g., hospital, lab) based on servtype columns and licno for regulatory or market research.
• Modeling county-level service availability by joining ServCnty columns (e.g., ServCnty2, ServCnty4) with other facility attributes.

Strengths

• Contains explicit geospatial coordinates via the Longitude column for mapping.
• Includes 30 columns detailing plan types, service types, and location information.
• Covers multiple payer types: Medicaid, Commercial, and Exchange plans for a specific quarter.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2019-03-25 13:52:42; freshness should be verified.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

health.data.ny.gov

Collection Method

Collected quarterly from health plans by the Department of Health.

Time Range

October 2018 to December 2018

Freshness

Data covers Q4 2018; last metadata update was 2019-03-25.

Geography

Likely New York State, inferred from the organization domain.