Texas Health Care Information Collection
Center for Health Statistics
Texas Health Care Information Collection
Center for Health Statistics
The
2014–15 General Appropriations Act, S.B. 1, 83rd Texas Legislature, Regular
Session, 2013 (Article II, Department of State Health Services [DSHS], Rider
93) specified that DSHS shall collect hospital emergency department (ED) data
as set forth in Chapter 108, Texas Health and Safety Code (THSC). DSHS
currently collects inpatient and outpatient data from hospitals and ambulatory
surgical centers. DSHS began collecting ED data from hospitals on January 1,
2015 per 25 Texas Administrative Code (TAC), Sections 421.71-421.78, and in
conjunction with the collection of inpatient and outpatient data.
In accordance with Health and Safety
Code, Section 108.012(b), "the department may charge a
person requesting public use or provider quality data a fee for the data.
The fees may reflect the quantity of information provided and the expense
incurred by the department in collecting and providing the data. The executive
commissioner by rule and shall be set the fees at a level that will raise
revenue sufficient for the operation of the department. The
department may not charge a fee for providing public use data to another
Texas state agency. Chapter 108 may be viewed by clicking here.
The Hospital Emergency Department Public Use
Data Files include data from Inpatient “Public Use Data Files” (PUDF) and the
Outpatient PUDF. The Inpatient PUDF contains patient-level information for
patients which were admitted into the hospital for care. The inpatient hospital
stay may last several hours to days, weeks or years, depending upon the condition
or status of the patient before being discharged, transferred or expired; the
Outpatient PUDF contains patient-level information for outpatient services that
do not go more than twenty-four (24) hours from the time they are being treated
in the hospital or ambulatory surgery center (ASC).
Purchasing the Hospital ED PUDF requires a completed Order Form, which
includes a Data Use Agreement.
Information on the data fields is included in the
user manual available below.
The Hospital ED PUDF is currently available for the first quarter 2016 through first quarter 2018. The second quarter 2018 is tentatively scheduled to be released March 2019.
The 2016 Hospital ED PUDF contains:
|
Number of Hospitals
|
Number
of Records
|
|
|
IP
Base
|
IP
Charges
|
OP
Base
|
OP
Charges
|
|
First quarter, 486 facilities |
371,668 records
|
7,149,726 records
|
2,324,263 records
|
17,938,585 records
|
|
Second quarter, 487 facilities |
364,092 records
|
7,024,369 records
|
2,315,466 records
|
18,261,235 records
|
|
Third quarter, 486 facilities |
367,523 records
|
7,065,645 records
|
2,275,340 records
|
18,289,934 records
|
|
Fourth quarter, 486 facilities |
368,588 records
|
7,117,949 records
|
2,260,107 records
|
17,847,395 records
|
The 2017 Hospital ED PUDF
contains:
|
Number of Hospitals
|
Number
of Records
|
|
|
IP
Base
|
IP
Charges
|
OP
Base
|
OP
Charges
|
|
First quarter, 491 facilities |
389,694 records
|
7,531,666 records
|
2,369,061 records
|
18,888,359 records
|
| Second quarter, 483 facilities | 374,777 records
| 7,068,705 records | 2,309,112 records | 18,724,107 records |
| Third quarter, 441 facilities | 368,002 records
| 6,917,547 records
| 2,232,450 records | 17,951,759 records |
Fourth quarter, 494 facilities
| 390,192 records
| 7,347,775 records
| 2,477,301 records
| 19,192,622 records
|
The 2018 Hospital ED PUDF contains:
| Number of Hospitals | Number of Records |
First quarter, 496 facilities
| IP Base | IP Charges | OP Base | OP Charges |
| | 409,776 records
| 7,835,239 records | 2,500,788 records
| 19,282,380 records
|
Emergency Department (ED) PUDF Order Form (PDF, 247 KB)
If you have suggestions or comments regarding ED PUDF data, please submit them to THCIC.