Texas Annual Survey 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 Texas Annual Survey of Hospitals 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 Texas Department of State Health Services, in cooperation with the Texas Hospital Association (“THA”) releases the results of its Annual Survey of Hospitals. THA also provides these data to the American Hospital Association for its Annual Hospital Survey. Each reporting hospital is required to provide and to certify  information on hospital organizational structure, facilities and services, beds, utilization, finances, and staffing. The survey form that each reporting hospital must complete provides a full listing of data elements and a representation of the survey’s structure.

Some useful data elements include:

• Number of beds by type
• Indication of over 80 potential services a hospital might provide
• Medicare and Medicaid discharges and patient days
• Gross inpatient and outpatient revenue
• Gross and Net revenue by payor
• Charity care admissions
• Staffing numbers

RPC’s Health Data Store has Texas Annual Hospital Survey data from 1990-2009. RPC’s Health Data Store also holds Texas Hospital Discharge data files, which are described in detail on a separate page.

Reporting Hospitals
All Texas hospitals with the exception of Federal and military hospitals are required to respond to the annual survey during the prescribed 60 day reporting period. The reports hold data for each hospital’s fiscal year.

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

• Comparison of services offered across Texas hospitals
• Radiological services offered by hospital and within zip code and County areas
• Historical analysis of provider revenues and financials
• Revenues received by payor
• Hospital ownership information
• Comparison of charity care services provided at Texas hospitals
• Detailed staffing data that can be compared across time and space

Data Suppression
In order to protect patient anonymity, the Department of State Health Services reserves the right to suppress any data elements that would lead to the identification of a single patient. In practice few, if any, data elements are suppressed.

Data Use Restrictions
There are no data use restrictions for this file.