Medicare Inpatient Charges and Payments for U.S. Hospitals, 2011-2016

Fiscal years 2011 through 2016 of inpatient discharge data for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries. The dataset, originally from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, provides information on utilization, payment, and hospital-specific charges for over 3,000 U.S. hospitals under the Inpatient Prospective Payment System. It is organized by hospital and Medicare Severity Diagnosis Related Group (MS-DRG).

Use Cases

• Predicting total inpatient payment amounts based on hospital and diagnosis group features mentioned in the description
• Analyzing Medicare payment variations across hospitals and diagnosis groups described in the source
• Benchmarking hospital charge efficiency using the reported utilization and payment metrics
• Training regression models on a mix of numerical and categorical features as indicated for the benchmark

Strengths

• Covers a multi-year period from fiscal year 2011 through 2016
• Includes data from over 3,000 U.S. hospitals
• Released under a permissive CC0-1.0 public domain license
• Sourced 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
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified

Provenance

Source

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Collection Method

Administrative records from the Inpatient Utilization and Payment Public Use File (Inpatient PUF).

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