CMS Denominator File

RPC knows that data collection and working with large data sets can be a challenge, and has created the Health Data Store to serve as a continuously updated repository of health care data. The Health Data Store can provide you with customizable data, ranging from large nation-wide data sets to smaller and more pointed reports or health care snapshots. Our experience working with CMS Provider of Denominator File allows us to query and package the data with confidence. We can also incorporate information from several different data sets to create in-depth, longitudinal analysis of the health care markets you are interested in. Please do not hesitate to contact us to discuss how the Health Data Store can help you with your information needs.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) collects data from every individual enrolled in the Medicare program each calendar year.  The resulting Denominator File includes demographic data such as sex, race, age and county of residence for each beneficiary. The Health Data Store holds a copy of the file's which lists all of the file's data elements. CMS updates this file annually, and the Health Data Store has the most recent update and historical data.

Some useful data elements include:

• Beneficiary's state of residence
• Beneficiary's sex
• Beneficiary's race
• Beneficiary's county of residence
• Beneficiary's age

RPC has access to Denominator data from 2005 to the most recently released year.

Data Applications
We can provide custom reports, graphs and maps using this data file and combining it with other health care utilization files.

The tabulations and analysis RPC offers based on CMS Denominator File data has many potential uses for healthcare planners, financial analysts, and hospital executives. RPC offers custom reports using the CMS Denominator data, and our consultants are happy to talk to you about how we can use the file to best meet your needs. A sample of the kinds of healthcare and financial data that can be gathered from the file are included below.

• Hospital
• Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF)
• Home Health Agencies (HHA)
• Portable X-Rays
• Physical Therapy/Speech Pathology
• End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD)
• Nursing Facilities (NF)
• Intermediate Care Facility-Mentally Retarded (ICF/MR)
• Rural Health Clinic
• Physical Therapy - Independent Practice
• Comprehensive Outpatient Rehab Facilities (CORF)
• Ambulatory Surgical Centers (ASC)
• Hospices
• Organ Procurement Organization
• Community Mental Health Centers (CMHC)
• Federally Qualified Health Centers
• CLIA88 Laboratories added: effective 1997

Data Applications
We can provide custom reports, graphs and maps using this data file and combining it with other health care and demographic files.

The tabulations and analysis RPC offers based on CMS POS file data has many potential uses for healthcare planners, financial analysts, and hospital executives. RPC offers custom reports using the CMS POS data, and our consultants are happy to talk to you about how we can use the file to best meet your needs. A sample of the kinds of healthcare and financial data that can be gathered from the file are included below.

• Analysis of the Medicare populations' demographic characteristics
• Provider or geographic area demographic analysis (in conjunction with other CMS files)
• Historical case mix analysis by demographic characteristics (in conjunction with other CMS files)

Data Use Restrictions
CMS does not allow any data to be distributed that may make it possible for an individual beneficiary to be identified. To that end, no tabulations using the Denominator file that include fewer than 11 beneficiaries may be produced from the data.