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Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
Creator: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Geography: North America, United States
Categories: Health Economics/Healthcare Costs
Tags: dental health, health care, health insurance, mental health, obesity, prescription drugs
Date: 1996-
URL: https://meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/
Annotation:
“The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) is a set of large-scale surveys of families and individuals, their medical providers, and employers across the United States.” MEPS is a good source of data on the cost and use of health care and health insurance coverage. Data available for ftp; also in HTML or Adobe Acrobat format. More detailed data available for purchase.