Florida Hospital Financial Data (Florida Hospital Uniform Reporting System)

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 Florida Hospital Financial Data 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 Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) collects hospital financial data from all Florida hospitals on an annual basis. Hospitals are required to submit a prior year report, detailing their financial experience over their prior fiscal year. The data must be audited by a Florida licensed Certified Public Accountant, and contain an opinion. After submission, AHCA conducts a review of the prior year report to determine completeness and verify its accuracy. The file has hospital-level data on hospital services, ownership, assets, case mix and other utilization data. The Health Data Store has a copy of the Florida Hospital Financial Data worksheets which illustrate the layout of the file and the data elements reported.

Some useful data elements include:

• Patient days by service line
• Operating revenues and expenses
• Patient care services expenses for 54 cost centers
• Physician services revenues and expenses for 54 cost centers
• Capital expenditures schedules

Florida hospitals must submit their prior year reports within 120 days of the end of their fiscal year. AHCA then has 90 days to conduct a review of the prior year report, and rele.

RPC has access to FHURS data from 1997-the most recently released year.

Reporting Hospitals
Florida has approximately 294 hospitals. In 2009, AHCA collected financial data on approximately 275 facilities. State operated hospitals, federal hospitals, and Shriner’s hospitals are not required to report inpatient data to AHCA.

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 AHCA hospital financial data has many potential uses for healthcare planners, financial analysts, and hospital executives. RPC offers custom reports using the AHCA FHURS 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.

• Financial benchmarking for all Florida hospitals
• Historical analysis of departmental costs and revenues
• Historical utilization analysis
• Comparison of services rendered, revenues, and costs across geographies
• Hospital to hospital financial health comparison
• Historical and inter-hospital occupancy analysis
• Financial and utilization comparison by hospital ownership type

Data Use Restrictions
Due to confidentiality agreements, the Health Data Store can only release tabulations and analyses based on the Florida Hospital Financial Data, and not the raw data itself.