CMS Provider of Services 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 Services 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 provider participating in Medicare or Medicaid.  The resulting Provider of Services file includes name, provider number, ownership, address, telephone, fiscal intermediary, and other information identifying the provider. The Health Data Store holds a copy of the file’s record layout which lists all of the file’s data elements. CMS updates this file quarterly, and the Health Data Store has the most recent update as well as historical data.

Some useful data elements include:

• Number of Registered Nurses, Dieticians, Physical Therapists, Physicians Assistants, and other healthcare professionals employed at the facility
• Number of beds by unit and/or special care type
• Medical school affiliation
• Full address and telephone number
• Ownership category

RPC has access to POS data from 1996 to the most recently released quarter.

Reporting Facilities
In the most recent quarter released, there are records for over 500,000 providers. Data on the following types of healthcare providers are collected in the POS file:

• 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 facility staffing over time and geographies
• Provider or geographic area case mix analysis (in conjunction with other CMS files)
• Case mix analysis by ownership type (in conjunction with other CMS files)
• Case mix analysis by medical staff makeup (in conjunction with other CMS files)
• Historical case mix analysis (in conjunction with other CMS files)

Data Use Restrictions
This file has no data use restrictions.