South Carolina Joint Annual Report of Hospitals

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 South Carolina's Hospital Joint Annual Report (JAR) 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 South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) collects data from hospitals operating in the state of South Carolina on an annual basis. The self-reported Joint Annual Report hospital data is organized by provider.

Providers update their JARs annually, and DHEC then makes the files available, and the Health Data Store has the most recent update and historical data.

Some useful data elements include:

• Hospital ownership type
• Hospital's accrediting body
• Hospital's Medicare designations (e.g. Critical Access Hospital, Major Teaching Hospital)
• Services provided at hospital (e.g. Neonatal Intensive Care, burn care, physical rehabilitation, psychiatric services, etc.)
• Number of MRI scans
• Number of PET procedures
• Number of Open Heart procedures
• Number of cardiac catheterization procedures performed
• Number of Inpatient and Outpatient operations performed
• Number of licensed beds by service type
• Admissions, discharges and patient days by service type
• Total Medicare and Medicaid discharges
• Total deliveries
• Outpatient and Emergency Department visits
• Number of employees by type (only available for certain years)
• Percent

RPC has access to Joint Annual Report data from 2003 to 2010.

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 South Carolina JAR data has many potential uses for healthcare planners, financial analysts, and healthcare provider executives. RPC offers custom reports using the South Carolina JAR 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.

• Historical analysis of patient volumes by bed type
• Comparative analysis of hospitals' occupancy
• Market analysis of hospital service offerings
• Comparative analysis of charges by providers and procedural codes
• Historical analysis of charges by providers or geographies
• Comparison of Medicare payment amounts by diagnosis codes or hospice provider
• Historical analysis of an hospice's disproportionate share payments
• Historical and comparative cost to charge ratios

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 SAF data that include fewer than 11 beneficiaries may be produced from the data.