Texas Health Care Information Collection
Center for Health Statistics
In accordance with Health and Safety Code, Section 108.012(b),"the council (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 council in collecting and providing the data and shall be set at a level that will raise revenue sufficient for the operation of the council (department's program). The council (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 Texas Public Use Data File (PUDF) contains data on discharges from Texas hospitals. Data are available by quarter beginning with data for 1999. The PUDF has been released through first quarter 2014. The second quarter is scheduled to be released May 2015, third quarter is scheduled to be released in August 2015 and fourth quarter is scheduled to be released in November 2015.
Purchasing the PUDF requires a completed Order Form, which includes a Data Use Agreement.
Information on the data fields is included in the user manuals available below.
The data files for data released after 2004 include 255 data fields in a base data file and 13 data fields in a detailed charges file. Data files for years before 2004 include only 205 data fields.
The 2014 PUDF contains data on hospital inpatient discharges and includes:
Inpatient PUDF 2014 Data
| First quarter, 600 hospitals |
Base data: 728,958 records |
Charges data: 11,859,542 records |
User Manuals (PDF format):
Statistics on hospital discharges. (Excel format)
Comments submitted by hospitals about their data. (PDF format)
- 2014 First Quarter (291 KB)
- 2013 First Quarter (160 KB), Second Quarter (172 KB), Third Quarter (166 KB) and Fourth Quarter (302 KB)
- 2012 First Quarter (153 KB), Second Quarter (155 KB), Third Quarter (155 KB) and Fourth Quarter (162 KB)
- 2011 First Quarter (159 KB), Second Quarter (166 KB), Third Quarter (170 KB) and Fourth Quarter (160 KB)
- 2010 First Quarter (184 KB), Second Quarter (156 KB), Third Quarter (153 KB) and Fourth Quarter (158 KB)
- 2009 First Quarter (230 KB), Second Quarter (194 KB), Third Quarter (197 KB) and Fourth Quarter (191 KB)
Free Data Download
The Public Use Data File (PUDF) for 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008, in fixed-length format, is available for free download.
Technical Update
An update has been released for the third quarter 2012 file. The records identified in the update are duplications of Outpatient claims and should be deleted from your copy of the Quarter 3 2012 Inpatient Public Use Data File (PUDF).
Third quarter, 2012 - Update in Excel form
Fourth quarter 2011 Inpatient computer disks (4Q2011 Inpatient CD) did not include the Facility Type files. December 17, 2012.
Records for additional discharges in Quarter 2, 2010 have been found to be duplicated in the data for Quarter 3, 2010. The following update includes the Record ID for those duplicate records that should be deleted from your copy of the Quarter 3 Public Use Data File (PUDF). September 7, 2011.
Third quarter, 2010 -
Update in Excel format
An update has been released for the third quarter 2010 charges file. The records identified in the update do not include charges and should be deleted from your copy of the Quarter 3 2010 Public Use Data File (PUDF).
Records for additional discharges in Quarter 1, 2010 have been found to be duplicated in the data for Quarter 2, 2010. The following update includes the Record ID for those duplicate records that should be deleted from your copy of the Quarter 2 Public Use Data File (PUDF). September 7, 2011.
Second quarter, 2010 - Update in Excel format
An update has been released for the second quarter 2010 charges file. The records identified in the update do not include charges and should be deleted from your copy of the Quarter 2 2010 Public Use Data File (PUDF).
- Second quarter, 2010 - Update in Excel format
Charges records for some discharges were inadvertently omitted from the Second quarter 2010 PUDF. These records should be added to your copy of the Quarter 2 2010 Public Use Data File (PUDF).
Records for additional discharges in Quarter 4, 2009 have been found to be duplicated in the data for Quarter 1, 2010. The following update includes the Record ID for those duplicate records that should be deleted from your copy of the Quarter 1 Public Use Data File (PUDF). August 19, 2011.
Records for some discharges in Quarter 4, 2009 were inadvertently duplicated in the data for Quarter 1, 2010. The following update includes the Record ID for those duplicate records that should be deleted from your copy of the Quarter 1 Public Use Data File (PUDF). May 18, 2011.
- First quarter, 2010 - Update in Excel format
Records for some discharges in Quarter 1, 2009 were inadvertently duplicated in the data for Quarter 2, 2009. The following update includes the Record ID for those duplicate records that should be deleted from your copy of the Quarter 2 Public Use Data File (PUDF). September 9, 2010.
- Second quarter, 2009 - Update in Excel format
Updates to correct missing uniform physician identifiers have been released for the second, third and fourth quarter 2007 Public Use Data Files (PUDF) and the first, second and third quarter 2008 PUDF. The updates include uniform identifiers for the Attending Physician and Operating Physician fields, ATTENDING_PHYSICIAN_UNIF_ID and OPERATING_PHYSICIAN_UNIF_ID, that were set to missing in the original files. Use the update to correct your copy of the PUDF files. For more information please contact THCIC Staff.
- Second quarter, 2007 Fixed-length format, Tab-delimited format
- Third quarter, 2007 Fixed-length format, Tab-delimited format
- Fourth quarter, 2007 Fixed-length format, Tab-delimited format
- First quarter, 2008 Fixed-length format, Tab-delimited format
- Second quarter, 2008 Fixed-length format, Tab-delimited format
- Third quarter, 2008 Fixed-length format, Tab-delimited format
An update has been released for the second quarter 2006 Public Use Data File (PUDF). It updates county codes, ZIP codes and Public Health Regions that were set to missing in the original file. Use the update to correct your copy of the PUDF. For more information please contact THCIC Staff.
An update has been released for the third quarter 2004 Public Use Data File (PUDF). The update includes those records for which the 3M APR-DRG grouping was corrected. This correction was necessitated because some records were not grouped with Version 20 of the APR-DRG Grouper. The files include the Record ID and four additional data elements: APR-DRG code, APR-MDC, Severity of Illness, and Risk of Mortality. Use the update to correct your copy of the PUDF.
Updates have been released for the 2003 PUDF. The updates include Patient Status codes for those records where the patient status was incorrectly indicated as invalid. The files contain the 12-digit Encounter ID and the 2-digit Patient Status Code. Use the files to update your copy of the PUDF. September 23, 2005
The User Manuals for 1999, 2000 and 2001 have been updated to correctly document the data field ADMIT WEEKDAY. The values for this data field should be interpreted as:
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
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, 2014. This list is updated annually. (February 2, 2015)
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