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Profile

The Profile report was originally developed by a team that wanted to identify areas where their own hospital referral region was an "outlier" - doing either much more or much less of a given procedure than the national average. The Profile allows you to compare the rates of up to 15 events you choose, in the area or hospital of your choice, to the national distribution of the unsuppressed rates in the data set. In Step 1A, you will be asked what kind of data you would like. There are two types of data available.

Step 1A: Select a data type for your report:

Population-based rates for geographic regions: Data about Medicare utilization and spending among all Medicare residents of local and regional health care markets.

Hospital service areas (HSAs): Local health care markets for hospital care
Hospital referral regions (HRRs): Regional markets for tertiary medical care
States

Population-based rates for chronically ill patients: Data about Medicare utilization, resource use and spending during the last two years of life among patients diagnosed with chronic illnesses.

Hospital referral regions (HRRs)
States

Provider-based rates for chronically ill patients: Data about Medicare utilization, resource use and spending during the last two years of life among patients hospitalized for chronic illnesses.

Hospitals

Hospital and physician capacity: Hospital and physician capacity: Data about the supply of hospital beds, hospital-based registered nurses, FTE hospital employees, and the physician workforce allocated to serve all residents of local and regional health care markets.

Hospital service areas (HSAs)
Hospital referral regions (HRRs)


Step 1B: Select a year:

  Population-based regional rates for all Medicare enrollees are available for each year from 1994 to 2005. Region- and provider-specific rates for chronically ill patients are available for one study period, 2001-05. 2006 data are available only for Medicare reimbursements and for hospital and physician capacity.