User-Friendly Hospital Cost Report Data for 2015 Now Available!

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Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released an annual update to the Hospital Cost Report Public Use File (Hospital Cost Report PUF) with data for 2015. The Hospital Cost Report PUF is a streamlined, easier to use version of the cost report data submitted by Medicare-certified hospitals. The PUF is organized at the hospital-level and includes select facility characteristics, utilization measures, cost and charges by cost center (in total and for Medicare), Medicare settlement data, and financial statement data.  The 2015 Hospital Cost Report PUF has information for 6,257 facilities, including all hospital facility types, and all payers. It covers 34 million discharges, 182 million days, $909 billion in net revenue and $939 billion in operating expenses. In addition to releasing data for 2015, the 2014 PUF has been updated to include the most recent cost report filings. The Hospital Cost Report PUF makes it easy to examine a wide variety of financial and utilization metrics for a given hospital and compare those data to hospitals with similar characteristics (e.g., geographic location or size). Since the PUF now contains two years of cost report data (2014 and 2015), it is also possible to look at how these metrics changed from one year to another. To view the PUF, please visit: https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/Medicare-Provider-Cost-Report/HospitalCostPUF All of the above data assets are also catalogued on Healthdata.gov:  http://www.healthdata.gov/dataset/search The Data Navigator development team welcomes your feedback. Write to us at DataNavigator@cms.hhs.gov.