Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Public Use File Details

MEPS HC-110H: 2007 Home Health File
Release date: August 2009

This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2007 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). The Home Health File contains household-reported information on expenditures for home health visits including the type of provider, type of services received, length of the visit, reason for the visit, expenditures, and sources of payment. Released as an ASCII file with SAS and SPSS programming statements and in SAS transport format, this public use file provides information on home health care for a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and can be used to make estimates of the utilization and expenditures associated with home health care during the 2007 calendar year. This file consists of 2007 data obtained in the 2007 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 11, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2007 portion of round 3 for Panel 12 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2007).

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Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Public Use File Details