Health Facility and Services data is a collection of records describing a single inpatient stay or outpatient encounter in Kentucky. The data come from:
Kentucky Hospitals
- Inpatient
- Outpatient
- Emergency Department
Ambulatory Facilities
- Ambulatory Surgery Centers
- Ambulatory Care Centers
- Specialized Medical Technology Services Providers
- Mobile Health Services Providers
A limited and deidentified Public Use Data set is available to the public for a fee (details below).
Aggregate or Analytic requests for data are provided at no charge with approval.
Annual Administrative Claims Data Reports
Annual Claims Data Reports are published each year per KRS 216.2925:
- Cardiac Catheterization Report
- List of Diagnostic and Therapeautic Labs
- Utilization per ADD, County & Facility
- Trends in Utilization
- Emergency Department Report
- Map of Facilities with ED Encounters
- 5 Year Trending Charts of ED Encounters
- By Year and Patient ADD
- % by Primary Payor
- By Year & Primary Payor
- ED Encounters by ADD, County, Facility & Payor
- Leading 25 Diagnoses
- ED Encounters per:
- Residence
- Gender
- Age
- Race
- Days of Week
- Primary Payor
- Most Frequent Discharge Status
- Inpatient Hospitalization Report
- Map of Facilities with Inpatient Discharges
- 5 Year Trending Charts of Inpatient Discharges:
- Year & ADD
- Primary Payor & Inpatient Days
- Year & Primary Payor
- Average Length of Stay by Year & Primary Payor
- Length of Stay by Year & Primary Payor
- Leading 25 Diagnoses
- Inpatient Discharges per:
- Residence
- Gender
- Age
- Race
- Admission Type
- Primary Payor
- Length of Stay
Inpatient Records
This data includes all hospital inpatient discharges. Each record includes:
- Demographic Data
- gender
- age group
- state
- county
- race
- ethnicity
- zip code
- unique hospital identifier
- Hospital Stay Data
- admission type and source (including ED)
- length of stay
- diagnoses codes
- procedure codes
- discharge status
- total charges
- Grouping Codes
- Major Diagnostic Category
- Medicare Severity - Diagnosis Related Group
Personal identifying information, such as name, address and Social Security number are not collected. Outpatient Records
This data includes all hospital outpatient and emergency department outpatient encounters and all visits and procedures completed at ambulatory surgery centers, ambulatory care centers, specialized medical technology service providers and mobile health service providers. Each record includes:
- demographic data
- gender
- age group
- state
- county
- race
- ethnicity
- zip code
- unique facility identifier
- diagnosis codes
- CPT & HCPCS codes
- total charges
Public Use Dataset
Public Use Datasets can be purchased in the following ways:
- Purchase from CHFS:
- Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) database
- AHRQ manages HCUP, a federal-state-industry partnership managing a family of healthcare databases. HCUP state datasets are uniform to allow researchers to easily combine and contrast data from multiple states. The datasets also include additional analyses not available through CHFS.
Public use datasets are provided in CSV format. Due to the size of the files, recipients are advised to use software such as SAS, Tableau or SQL capable of handling large datasets. Further details of the public use datasets can be found below:
Public Use Dataset File Layout
Public Use Dataset Lookup Table
Public Use Dataset Technical Notes
2020 HFSD Advisory Note
Cost per dataset
Non-profit: $500
All Others: $1,500
Request for Aggregate Data
The Office of Data Analytics responds to request for data analysis and aggregate data reports. To submit a data request, please complete our online data request form. Currently, aggregated data requests are provided at no charge. Further details related to the data used for data requests can be found below:
Healthcare Facilities and Services Data Variables
Current Reporting Facilities
Aggregate Data Request Technical Notes
Complete Request for Aggregate Data
Health Facilities and Service Data Contact
Michael LawsonHealthcare
Data Administrator, Office of Data Analytics