CMS Releases User-Friendly Version of Hospital Cost Report Data

CMS Releases User-Friendly Version of Hospital Cost Report Data As part of our efforts to improve the sharing and utilization of information, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today released a new, more user-friendly version of cost report data for Medicare-certified hospitals. The Hospital Cost Report Public Use File (Hospital Cost Report PUF) presents select measures provided by hospitals through their annual cost report, and is organized at the hospital level.  For many years, CMS has publically posted cost report data, which is reported by providers to the Healthcare Cost Report Information System (HCRIS), to the CMS website. Cost report data includes provider information such as facility characteristics, utilization data, cost and charges by cost center (in total and for Medicare), Medicare settlement data, and financial statement data. To make cost report data more accessible to the general public, CMS has developed a new and user-friendly version of hospital cost report data for 2014 in a simplified Excel format.   The Hospital Cost Report PUF includes data from 2014 and has information for 6,248 facilities, including all hospital facility types and all payers. It covers 33 million discharges, 180 million days, $876 billion in net revenue, and $889 billion in operating expenses. To view the PUF, please visit: https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/Medicare-Provider-Cost-Report/HospitalCostPUF.html

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