Medicare fee-for-service inpatient discharge records from over 3,000 U.S. hospitals. The data includes information on utilization, total payments, Medicare payments, and hospital-specific charges organized by hospital and Medicare Severity Diagnosis Related Group (MS-DRG). It was originally published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and was transformed for use in a tabular data benchmark.
Use Cases
- Predicting total inpatient payment amounts based on hospital and diagnosis group.
- Benchmarking hospital charge variation for specific MS-DRGs across the United States.
- Analyzing trends in Medicare payments and hospital utilization from 2011 to 2016.
Strengths
- Covers over 3,000 U.S. hospitals receiving Medicare IPPS payments.
- Includes six fiscal years of data (FY 2011 through FY 2016).
- Released under a permissive CC0-1.0 license.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
Provenance
- Source
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Collection Method
- Transformed from the Inpatient Utilization and Payment Public Use File (Inpatient PUF) for a benchmark.
- Time Range
- Fiscal Year 2011 through Fiscal Year 2016
- Geography
- United States