Health Statistics

Information on the number of beds, zip codes of patients, cost & revenue information, teaching status, ownership information, & more.

Contains statistics from 626 hospital systems in the US, including physician groups, total acute care beds, & much more. From AHRQ.

Provides online Medicare cost report data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

From the National Center for Health Statistics.

Data on health care costs & quality, with national, state, & local prices. Search by condition, treatment, or test. Information comes from HCCI.

Comparable data on quality of care at hospitals.

Tracks trends affecting hospitals & health care organizations & factors that influence the use of health care resources, the quality of health care, & disparities in health care services in the US. Integrates the National Hospital Discharge Survey & National Hospital Medical Care Ambulatory Survey. From the National Center for Health Statistics.

See also the National Home & Hospice Care Survey (through 2007).

National study of ambulatory surgical care in hospital-based and freestanding ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs).

Create customized reports on state-level health insurance coverage, access, & cost.

An on-line, publicly accessible registry & repository of healthcare-related data, metadata, & standards. From AHRQ & CMS.

A handy chart that will help you decide what source to use for a particular question.

A tool to analyze hospital discharge data, allowing comparisons by by payer group, condition, & state. From AHRQ.

A broad array of methodological information on the HCUP databases and software tools.

A free, online query system that provides access to health statistics & information on hospital inpatient & emergency department utilization, based on data from HCUP. The interface changed dramatically in Jan. 2017. Click the Tutorial button in the upper right to learn more.

Free, interactive courses that provide HCUP users with information about HCUP data and tools.

Simple, descriptive statistics on a variety of specific, focused topics.

Includes HCUPnet, AHRQ Quality Indicators, Clinical Classifications & Utilization Flags software, & more.

Healthcare databases from AHRQ, including the National (Nationwide) Inpatient Sample (NIS), Kids’ Inpatient Database (KID), & the Nationwide Emergency Department Sample (NEDS) & more. Please note that NIS is now a sample of discharges from all hospitals participating in HCUP, rather than a sample of hospitals & all discharges from those hospitals.

Search for economic relationships between doctors, hospitals & health care manufacturing companies. A part of the ACA, payment records begin in 2013.