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The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) is a set of large-scale surveys of families and individuals, their medical providers, and employers across the United States. MEPS is the most complete source of data on the cost and use of health care and health insurance coverage. Learn more about MEPS.

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What's New Highlights
Upcoming Events
CFACT Seminar, Thursday, November 20, 2008 from 2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m. in the Rock Creek Conference Room—Effects of Immigration on Health Insurance Status of Natives

Registration is now open for the one-day MEPS workshop Using MEPS Data in Gerontological Health Services Research at the 2008, GSA 61st Annual Scientific Meeting to be held in National Harbor, MD. The workshop will take place on November 21, 2008. For more information, go to GSA.

New Publication
The Medical Provider Component (MPC) is a voluntary survey designed to supplement and validate health care expenditure and source of payment data collected in the MEPS Household Component (HC). MPC data are collected a year after the household health care event information is collected to allow adequate time for billing transactions to be completed. To learn more about the recent MPC data collection efforts that took place between January 1, 2006, and December 31, 2006, go to the report Design, Methods, and Field Results of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Medical Provider Component (MEPS MPC)—2006 Calendar Year Data (Methodology Report 23)

New Data Files
Two new public use data files drawn from the 2006 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey have been released: 2006 Hospital Inpatient Stays File and 2006 Person Round Plan Public Use File.

New Summary Tables
Summary Tables for 2006 Prescribed Drug Estimates have been released. These tables rank prescribed drugs and therapeutic classes of prescribed drugs by Total Expenditures and by Total Purchases.
To access a list of all the latest items posted on our Web site, visit What's New.

 
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