Medicare Inpatient Hospital Charges and Payments, Fiscal Years 2011-2016

Medicare fee-for-service inpatient discharge data from over 3,000 U.S. hospitals provides information on utilization, total payments, and hospital-specific charges. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services organized this public use file by hospital and Medicare Severity Diagnosis Related Group (MS-DRG). It covers Fiscal Years 2011 through 2016 and was used in a tabular data benchmark for classification on numerical features.

Use Cases

• Benchmark classification models on numerical features based on the dataset's use in a tabular benchmark.
• Analyze hospital charge variation based on Medicare Severity Diagnosis Related Groups (MS-DRGs).
• Model Medicare payment amounts based on inpatient utilization and hospital-specific charge data.
• Study temporal trends in healthcare costs based on data spanning six fiscal years.

Strengths

• Covers over 3,000 U.S. hospitals that receive Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) payments.
• Includes six fiscal years of data (FY 2011 through FY 2016), allowing for temporal analysis.
• Released under a permissive CC0-1.0 license by the authoritative source, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for specific modeling tasks.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Collection Method

Administrative data from the Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS).

Time Range

Fiscal Year 2011 through Fiscal Year 2016

Freshness

Data covers Fiscal Years 2011-2016; last platform update date is unknown.

Geography

United States