FL AHCA - Florida Agency for Healthcare Administration database

General description

1. Database primary purpose - Hospital reimbursement information
2. Overall data type - Hospital inpatient discharge, Emergency Department (ED), and ambulatory patient data. Includes short-term and long-term psychiatric and comprehensive rehabilitation hospitals.
3. Dataset type - Cross-sectional dataset
4. Data source - Claims
5. Data level - Patient level
6. Geographic location of the data collection sites - Florida hospitals
7. Sponsor, manager, or home institution - Florida Agency for Healthcare Administration
8. Date range - 2009 - 2021
9. Geolocation data - Zip codes
10. Hospital identifiers - AHCA Facility Number, Facility Medicare Number
11. NPI - Present for Attending Practitioner and Operating or Performing Practitioner
12. Longitudinal tracking - Track providers and hospitals
13. Financial variables - Charges with cost-to-charge ratios
14. Clinical areas of interest - Disease

Applicable methods

1. Geographic spatial analyses (1)
2. Predictive models (2)
3. Causal models (3, 4, 5)

High-impact designs and novel variables

• Enrichment of this bank through linkage to other datasets (6)

Data dictionary

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Variable categories

1. Patient demographics (e.g., age, sex, race, ethnicity)
2. Hospital discharge records (e.g., LOS, patient discharge status, etc)
3. Charges [overall charges (nursery, ICU, anesthesia etc), total gross charges]
4. Diagnosis (e.g., admitting, principal, and "other" diagnosis code)

Linkage to other datasets

• Linkages can be established for datasets related to [environmental health] and social determinants of health (SDoH) that contain geolocation data.