This release of the public, hospital discharge data sets consists of 11 files. All data files are self-extracting "zip" files and are in Microsoft Access (.mdb) format. The "look-up" tables are in Excel (.xls) format.
Discharge data summarized by Hospital, APR-DRG, Severity and Primary Payer
Discharge data summarized by Hospital, HCFA DRG and Primary Payer
Discharge data summarized by Hospital, Principal Diagnosis and Primary Payer
Discharge data summarized by Hospital, Principal Procedure and Primary Payer
Code number and description of the APR-DRGs
Code number and description of the HCFA DRGs
Code number (ICD-9-CM) and description of the Principal Diagnoses
Code number (ICD-9-CM) and description of the Principal Procedures
Code number, name, and county of the facilities
Names (labels) and descriptions of the data set variables
Code number and description of the Primary Payers
All negative numbers and those charges reported as "$0.00" have been changed to "missing."
