Attachment 17 – HC Who Uses MEPS Data

Medical Expenditure Panel Survey

Who Uses MEPS?
The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) is a national survey of families and individuals and of their medical
providers. Data from MEPS have been used to estimate health care use, spending, and private and public insurance
coverage in the United States.
MEPS researchers include statisticians, social scientists, and health services researchers in universities around the United
States; government agencies; and private organizations. In 2010, MEPS users came from the following organizations:

Private-Sector
Organizations
AARP
Blue Cross/Blue Shield
Center for Studying Health System
Change
Commonwealth Fund
Ernst & Young
Institute for Health Policy Solutions
Kellogg Foundation
Lewin Group
Mathematica Policy Research
Mayo Clinic
MedImmune
National Association of Chain Drug
Stores
National Minority Quality Forum
New York Times
RAND Corporation
Research Triangle Institute
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Urban Institute
USA Today
Wall Street Journal

Government Agencies

Universities

Administration on Aging
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services
Congressional Budget Office
Department of Agriculture
Department of Health and Human
Services
Department of Labor
Department of the Treasury
Department of Veterans Affairs
Federal Trade Commission
Food and Drug Administration
Government Accountability Office
Maryland Health Care Commission
National Cancer Institute
National Center for Health Statistics
National Institute of Mental Health
Office of Management and Budget
Senate Committee on Aging
Senate Finance Committee
Senate Joint Committee on Taxation
Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration

Baylor College of Medicine
Boston University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dartmouth University
Duke University
Emory University
Georgetown University
Harvard Medical School
Johns Hopkins University
Northwestern University
Princeton University
Purdue University
Stanford University
Texas A&M University
University of Alaska
University of Colorado
University of Michigan
University of Pennsylvania
University of Washington
Vanderbilt University
Virginia Commonwealth University
Yale University

For more information on MEPS, visit the MEPS Web site at
http://www.ahrq.gov/data/mepsix.htm.

AHRQ Pub. No. 11-M016
May 2011