CMS posts 2015 Inpatient and Outpatient Hospital Utilization and Payment Data

CMS has released the Hospital Inpatient and Outpatient Utilization and Payment Public Use Files (PUF) with data for 2015.

The Inpatient PUF includes summarized information on inpatient discharges paid for under the Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries. The data include discharges, average Medicare payments and average hospital charges organized by hospital provider and Medicare Severity Diagnosis Related Group (MS-DRG). It provides data on more than 3,000 hospital providers who collectively received $78.2 billion in Medicare payments in 2015. The 2015 data and supplemental information are available at: https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/Medicare-Provider-Charge-Data/Inpatient2015.html.

The Outpatient PUF includes summarized information on select outpatient services and procedures paid for under the Medicare Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries. The data include services, average total payments and average hospital charges organized by hospital provider and Ambulatory Payment Classification (APC) Groups. It provides data on more than 3,000 hospital providers who collectively received $5.4 billion in total payments in 2015.  The Outpatient PUF and the supplemental summary tables for 2015 have been updated to include 28 APC Groups and are available at: https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/Medicare-Provider-Charge-Data/Outpatient2015.html.