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The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) is a set of large-scale surveys of families and individuals, their medical providers, and employers across the United States. MEPS is the most complete source of data on the cost and use of health care and health insurance coverage. Learn more about MEPS.

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What's New Highlights
New Tabular Data
Top Prescribed Drugs Tables for 2010 (Tables 1.1-2.2) collected from the MEPS Household Component are now available. These tables include data on prescribed drugs and total expenditures.

New Publications
Seventy-five percent of Hispanics living in an MSA had their cholesterol screened in the last five years, compared to 61 percent of non-MSA Hispanics. - From Statistical Brief 383: Preventive Health Care Utilization by Adult Residents of MSAs and non-MSAs: Differences by Race/Ethnicity, 2009.

Private insurance paid the largest share of expenditures for all five of the most commonly treated conditions among adults ages 40-64 in 2009. - From Statistical Brief 382: Health Care Expenditures for the Five Most Common Conditions of Adults Ages 40 to 64, 2009.

The average expense for an office-based visit to a physician was $218 in 2009. - From Statistical Brief 381: Use and Expenses for Office-Based Physician Visits by Specialty, 2009: Estimates for the U.S. Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population.

New Data Files
Additonal event-level public use files have been added to the site and are now available for public use: 2010 Prescribed Medicines (HC-135A); 2010 Hospital Inpatient Stays File (HC-135D).

Upcoming Events
Registration is now OPEN for the MEPS Two-Day Data User Workshop. September 24–25, 2012, Rockville, MD. More details. . .
To access a list of all the latest items posted on our Web site, visit What's New.

 
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