The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) offers researchers and other health care professionals a broad range of quantitative information on their programs, from estimates of future Medicare and Medicaid spending to enrollment, spending, and claims data, and a broad range of consumer research to help its partners and staff. CMS also conducts demonstration projects to explore alternative...

The National Health Interview Survey is a cross-sectional household interview survey. Sampling and interviewing are continuous throughout each year. The sampling plan follows a multistage area probability design that permits the representative sampling of households and noninstitutional group quarters (e.g., college dormitories). NHIS addresses topics such as health status, use of health services,...

The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) is a set of large-scale surveys of families and individuals, their medical providers (doctors, hospitals, pharmacies, etc.), and employers across the United States. MEPS collects data on the specific health services that Americans use, how frequently they use them, the cost of these services, and how they are paid for, as well as data on the cost, scope,...

The American Community Survey (ACS) is an ongoing annual survey that publishes and collects data on the population of the United States. The survey is issued to approximately 3.5 million households per year. The ACS contains detailed questions assessing social, economic, demographic, and housing characteristics, including age, sex, race, family and relationships, income and benefits, health insurance,...

The Nationwide Readmissions Database (NRD) is database under the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) which contains nationally representative information on hospital readmissions for all ages, including all payers and the uninsured. The NRD contains data from approximately 18 million discharges per year (35 million weighted discharges) across most of the United States. Data elements include: Discharge...

The Community Health Resources and Needs Assessment (CHRNA) project is a large-scale health needs assessment in diverse, low-income Asian American communities in New York City. The project uses a community-engaged and community venue-based approach to assess existing health issues, available resources, and best approaches to meet community health needs. Questions asked in the CHRNAs assess various...

This dataset was generated from a survey that studied newly-hired home health attendants and their families, using a pre- and post-program design. A total of 475 attendants were interviewed for the pre-program, and follow-up interviews were obtained from 360 of the 475 sample members. Most of the study subjects were without medical insurance until they became eligible for health benefits through their...

The Gallup U.S. Daily Tracking poll was conducted between 2008 and 2017 to collect Americans' opinions and perceptions on political and economic current events. It included two parallel surveys, the U.S. Daily and the Gallup-Sharecare Well-Being Index. Gallup interviews approximately 1,000 U.S. adults every day, half of whom respond to the U.S. Daily survey and the other half respond to the Gallup-Sharecare...

The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) has systematically compiled clinical, laboratory and diagnostic data from electronic health records to support COVID-19 research efforts via the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) Data Enclave. As of August 2, 2022, the repository contains information from over 15 million patients (including 5.8 million COVID-19 positive patients)...

The New York State Department of Health (NYS DOH) shares de-identified and aggregated metrics on the NYS Medicaid program through the Health Data NY catalog and as summary statistics on DOH website. Datasets vary by subject/scope, unit of analysis, years of data collection, and update frequency. Publicly-available datasets in the Health Data NY catalog address topics including: Medicaid Program Enrollment...