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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 the most complete source of data on the cost and use of health care and health insurance coverage. Learn more about MEPS.

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What's New Highlights
Upcoming Event
Registration is now OPEN for the MEPS & HCUP Two-Day Data Users' Workshop. September 28–29, 2009, Rockville, MD. More details. . .

New Tabular Data
Tables of Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Estimates from the 2008 MEPS Insurance Component are now available. These summary tables include statistics at the national, state, and metro levels on such topical areas of employer-sponsored health insurance as offers and enrollments; number and types of insurance plans; premiums, benefits, contributions by employers and employees; and employer characteristics.

Health insurance coverage tables for the first half of 2008 have been posted. These tables provide a snapshot of the nation's health insurance coverage, giving an early glimpse of the likely full-year insurance estimates.

Analytical Tools
MEPSnet/Insurance Component Data new data provides easy access to national and state level statistics and trends about health insurance offered by private establishments and state and local governments for years 1996-2006 and 2008.

New Publications
In conjunction with the release of Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Estimates from the 2008 MEPS Insurance Component, the following Statistical Briefs highlight some of the more salient findings drawn from the 2008 tables regarding differences based on:

Geographic Location

  1. Statistical Brief #250: State Differences in the Cost of Job-Related Health Insurance, 2008

Size of Employer

  1. Statistical Brief #251: Employer-Sponsored Single, Employee-Plus-One, and Family Health Insurance Coverage: Selection and Cost, 2008
Young adults in the 19 to 24 and the 25 to 29 age groups were at greatest risk of being uninsured, with over a third (37.6 percent and 33.6 percent, respectively) without health insurance. —From Statistical Brief #249: The Uninsured in America, First Half of 2008: Estimates for the U.S. Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population under Age 65.

COBRA enrollees were more likely than people insured through a current job to be age 55 or older, to report poor or fair general health. and to report a limitation in their ability to work because of an impairment or a physical or mental health problem.—From Statistical Brief 252: Characteristics of People Insured through COBRA versus through a Current Job, 2005-2006

New Questionnaires
2008 MEPS Insurance Component Questionnaires - Forms are now available.

New Data Files
MEPS HC-109: 2008 P12R3/P13R1 Population Characteristics is the thirteenth point in time data file to be released. This file contains person-level data collected during the early part of the 2008 calendar year.

To access a list of all the latest items posted on our Web site, visit What's New.

 
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