Medical Expenditure Panel Survey - Medical Provider Component (MEPS-MPC)

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  {
    "fn": "Rebecca Ahrnsbrak",
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    "hasEmail": "mailto:Rebecca.Ahrnsbrak@ahrq.hhs.gov"
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  "name": "AHRQ in collaboration with RTI International",
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  "@type": "Document",
  "title": "Medical Expenditure Panel Survey - Household Event Files",
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  {
    "@type": "Distribution",
    "title": "Medical Expenditure Panel Survey - Medical Provider Component (MEPS-MPC)",
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    "license": "https://www.ahrq.gov/",
    "modified": "2026-07-24",
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    "describedBy": {
      "@type": "Document",
      "title": "Codebooks",
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    },
    "description": "Healthcare expenditure data by payer",
    "downloadURL": "https://meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/data_stats/download_data_files.jsp",
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        "restrictionNote": "Microdata are used only by project staff to match and impute data for the MEPS public use files.  MEPS public use data files are publicly available and contain some of the information included in MEPS-MPC.",
        "restrictionStatus": "restricted - partly"
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    "@type": "DatasetSeries",
    "title": "Medical Expenditure Panel Survey - Medical Provider Component (MEPS-MPC)",
    "description": "The MEPS Medical Provider Component (MPC) collects data from medical providers (physicians, hospitals, home health agencies, and pharmacies) who provided medical care to MEPS Household Component respondents. The MPC collects data on dates of visits/services, use of medical care services, charges and sources of payments and amounts, and diagnoses and procedure codes for medical visits/encounters."
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  "Healthcare expenditures",
  "healthcare payers",
  "home health",
  "hospitals",
  "medical providers",
  "pharmacies",
  "physicians",
  "separately billing doctors"
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  "title": "Medical Expenditure Panel Survey - Download Data Files, Documentation, and Codebooks",
  "accessURL": "https://meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/survey_comp/mpc.jsp"
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  "name": "Center for Financing, Access, and Cost Trends (CFACT)",
  "@type": "Organization",
  "subOrganizationOf": [
    {
      "name": "Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)",
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        {
          "name": "U.S. Department of Health and Human Services",
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[
  "Expenditure and payer data collected from MEPS-MPC are merged onto MEPS-HC data files.  Additionally, information from this collection is used for imputation for records without provider data.  Public use files are released that contain information from both MEPS-HC and MEPS-MPC.  MEPS-MPC data is not publicly available on its own and is exempt from disclosure under FOIA."
]

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  {
    "name": "Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality",
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  {
    "@type": "Location",
    "prefLabel": "United States"
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  {
    "@type": "Concept",
    "prefLabel": "Healthcare expenditures"
  },
  {
    "@type": "Concept",
    "prefLabel": "healthcare payers"
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