Texas Health Care Information Collection
Center for Health Statistics
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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 (ED) Public Use
Data Files (PUDF) include data from Inpatient 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).
The Hospital ED PUDF is currently available for the first quarter 2016 through second quarter 2020. The third quarter 2020 is tentatively scheduled to be released June 2021.
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 2020 Hospital ED PUDF contains:
| Number of Hospitals | Number of Records |
| | IP Base | IP Charges | OP Base | OP Charges |
| First quarter, 503 facilities | 410,367 records
| 8,803,361 records
| 2,483,855 records
| 20,397,393 records
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| Second quarter, 489 facilities | 347,806 records
| 7,484,854 records | 1,612,607 records
| 14,724,511 records |
The 2019 Hospital ED PUDF contains:
| Number of Hospitals | Number of Records |
| | IP Base | IP Charges | Op Base | OP Charges |
| First quarter, 491 facilities | 406,180 records
| 8,252,417 records
| 2,544,659 records
| 21,413,050 records
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Second quarter, 492 facilities
| 398,940 records
| 8,017,296 records
| 2,463,527 records
| 21,350,818 records
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| Third quarter, 488 facilities | 400,377 records | 8,192,082 records
| 2,440,133 records
| 21,130,812 records
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| Fourth quarter, 489 facilities | 413,783 records
| 8,737,281 records
| 2,638,460 records | 21,336,880 records
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The 2018 Hospital ED PUDF
contains:
| Number of Hospitals | Number of Records |
| IP Base | IP Charges | OP Base | OP Charges |
First quarter, 496 facilities
| 409,776 records
| 7,835,239 records | 2,500,788 records
| 19,282,380 records
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| Second quarter, 487 facilities | 385,680 records
| 7,341,105 records
| 2,359,980 records
| 19,153,697 records
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Third quarter, 492 facilities
| 382,461 records
| 7,593,268 records
| 2,319,929 records
| 19,275,555 records
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| Fourth quarter, 497 facilities | 390,017 records | 7.788.331 records | 2,444,990 records | 20,692,681 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 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 |
Technical Update
An update has been released for the first quarter 2019 “ED Facility_type1q2019.txt” and “ED Facility_type1q2019_tab.txt” files. A number of facilities that submitted data were not included in those files. The update contains the correct reporting of the facilities and facility type information for the 1Q2019 Emergency Department Facility Type files. All other data files were correctly reported and in the appropriate data files. Released February 18, 2020
Data Purchasers
The list of organizations includes a variety of organizations that use the data for analysis. The listing includes recipients from 2003 through December 31, 2020. This list is updated annually. (February 12, 2021)
If you have suggestions or comments regarding ED PUDF data, please submit them to THCIC.