New Data Files Provide Comprehensive View of U.S. Healthcare

Three new data files from AHRQ's Compendium of U.S. Health Systems are now available to provide researchers, policymakers and others with a comprehensive, first-time view of the U.S. healthcare landscape:

• The outpatient site linkage file provides data on more than 283,000 outpatient sites in 2022, including information on practice type, specialty and size. It indicates whether sites are located in medically underserved or health professional shortage areas.
• The nursing home linkage file includes 2020–2022 data on nearly 15,000 nursing homes, including information on location, system affiliation and ownership.
• The home health care linkage file provides 2020–2022 data on healthcare, home dialysis and home hospice providers. It includes information on location and ownership for nearly 13,000 home healthcare organizations.

The compendium is a product of AHRQ's Comparative Health System Performance Initiative. As a complement to the outpatient site linkage file, AHRQ has released a data visualization that allows users to filter data by state to indicate the proportions of practices that are corporate owned, owned by integrated delivery networks, or independent.