EC 0048: Health Economics

National

• Agency for Health Care Quality and Research
• Centers for Disease Control (CDC): Health Insurance Coverage
  
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)

• Congressional Budget Office (CBO): Health Care

• Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS): HealthCare.gov
• Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP): Largest collection of longitudinal hospital care data in the United States, with all-payer, discharge-level information beginning in 1988. Micro-level HCUP data is also available from DSS. Speak to a librarian or consultant as a confidentiality agreement must be signed before this data can be made available.
• Health Indicators Warehouse (HIW): From U.S. Dept. of HHS standardized health outcomes and health determinant indicators along with associated evidence-based interventions. Discover health indicators data by topic, geography or health initiative.

• HSTAT: National Library of Medicine (HSTAT is a free, electronic resource that provides access to the full-text documents useful in health care decision making.)

• Medicare (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services)

• Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC)

• National Health Interview Survey (Division of Health Interview Statistics,
  National Center for Health Statistics)

• U.S. Census Bureau: Health Insurance

• The White House: Health Reform in Action
  
• ICPSR Health and Medical Care Archive (HMCA): Preserves and disseminates health care data collected by researchers. Subjects covered include Health Care Providers, Cost/Access to Health Care, Substance Abuse and Health, Chronic Health Conditions, and Other.
• Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) : The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, which began in 1996, is a set of large-scale surveys of families and individuals, their medical providers (doctors, hospitals, pharmacies, etc.), and employers across the United States. MEPS collects data on the specific health services that Americans use, how frequently they use them, the cost of these services, and how they are paid for, as well as data on the cost, scope, and breadth of health insurance held by and available to U.S. workers.
• National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS):

States/Local

• Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO): Health Reform

• MA Department of Health and Human Services (Department of Health Care Finance and Policy [DHCFP] Publications and Analysis)
• National Center of County & City Health Officials

• State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) (The State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) is a program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and a part of the Health Policy and Management Division of the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota)

NEW: Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development (see Library & Bibliography; Reports)