Note: I had stopped writing posts in 2017. Slowly getting back into it in 2024, mostly for AI.
The United States Health Information Knowledgebase (USHIK) is an on-line, publicly accessible registry and repository of healthcare related data, metadata, and standards. USHIK is funded and directed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) with...
This is what hospitals charge for common inpatient services. It covers more than 3,000 U.S. hospitals that receive Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) payments for the top 100 most frequently billed discharges for FY 2011. These represent almost 7...
Overview: The National Provider Identifier (NPI) was adopted as the standard unique health identifier for health care providers to carry out a requirement in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) The Centers for Medicare &...
Overview: Medicare-certified institutional providers are required to submit an annual cost report to a Fiscal Intermediary (FI). The cost report contains provider information such as facility characteristics, utilization data, cost and charges by cost center (in total...
Overview: A standardized survey instrument and data collection methodology for measuring patients’ perspectives on hospital care Contains 18 patient perspectives on care and patient rating items that encompass eight key topics: communication with doctors communication...