Health Care Industry

Benchmarking resource with comparative data on key financial indicators. Available at the Lippincott Information Desk (CD-ROM or call number RA981.A2 A582).

Professional society of executives who lead hospitals, healthcare systems and other healthcare organizations.

National organization that represents hospitals and health care systems. AHA Survey (including the IT supplement) and financial database files are available via WRDS.

Includes summaries of clinical services, utilization and financial statistics.

Produced by the American Hospital Association. Current and historical data on utilization, personnel, revenue, expenses, managed care contracts, community health indicators, physician models. RA 981 A2 A6234 (Latest-Lippincott Information Desk; Others-3rd Floor Stacks).

Organization within AHA that focuses on marketing. See their report By the numbers: Benchmarking Study on Healthcare Marketing Communications to find data about marketing/communications and advertising/media budgets and the structure, responsibilities, and staffing levels of marketing/communications departments in healthcare organizations (Lippincott stacks, RA410.56 .B9)

Medicare-certified hospitals are required to submit an annual cost report through the Healthcare Cost Report Information System (HCRIS). The cost report contains provider information such as facility characteristics, utilization data, cost and charges by cost center (in total and for Medicare), Medicare settlement data, and financial statement data. Data are available as SAS data files.

AAMC is the association that represents accredited US and Canadian medical schools. They publish biennial reports which include physician supply and retention by state, as well as reports focusing on medical specialties and diversity.

Professional association for administrators and leaders of medical group practices. We do not have access to MGMA data, but there are some useful articles on their site that are freely available.

A federal program, required by the Affordable Care Act, that collects information about the payments drug and device companies make to physicians and teaching hospitals for things like travel, research, gifts, speaking fees, and meals. It also includes ownership interests that physicians or their immediate family members have in these companies.

Represents healthcare providers, equipment manufacturers, and other organizations in the homecare community

Association of long term and post-acute care providers.

Represents home care agencies, hospices, and home care aide organizations

Association for hospice and palliative care programs and professionals in the United States

Monitors trends in the supply, provision and use of the major sectors of paid, regulated long0term care services.

National trade association of companies and healthcare systems that provide healthcare in retail-based locations.