When are the Medical Provider Component (MPC) data released?

Answer ID 82   |    Published 06/26/2006 12:15 PM   |    Updated 04/07/2009 01:05 AM
When are the Medical Provider Component (MPC) data released?
For reasons of confidentiality, the Medical Provider Component (MPC) file cannot be publicly released. The MPC is not designed to produce national estimates and for budgetary reasons, not all household-reported events are fielded in the MPC. MPC data are used to supplement/replace household data to produce the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) expenditure estimates. Selected data elements from the MPC data collection may be accessed in the Data Center for approved research projects.
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