Medicare Inpatient Charges and Payments, 2011-2016

Medicare fee-for-service inpatient discharges from over 3,000 U.S. hospitals between Fiscal Years 2011 and 2016. The dataset, originally from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, includes information on utilization, total payments, and hospital-specific charges organized by hospital and diagnosis-related group. It was transformed for use in a tabular data benchmark focused on regression tasks with numerical features.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking regression models on numerical features based on the dataset's stated purpose in a tabular benchmark.
• Analyzing hospital charge variation based on Medicare Severity Diagnosis Related Groups (MS-DRGs).
• Modeling Medicare payment amounts based on hospital and diagnosis group information.
• Studying trends in inpatient utilization and costs over the 2011-2016 period.

Strengths

• Covers over 3,000 U.S. hospitals that receive Medicare IPPS payments.
• Includes six years of data from Fiscal Year 2011 through FY 2016.
• Original data is a public use file from the authoritative 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.
• The dataset has been transformed for a benchmark, which may affect its original structure.

Provenance

Source

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Collection Method

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

Time Range

Fiscal Year 2011 through Fiscal Year 2016

Geography

United States