MarketScan® Commercial Claims and Encounters and Medicare Supplemental Databases
The MarketScan® Commercial Claims and Encounters and Medicare Supplemental Databases from Thomson Reuters (Healthcare) Inc. contain de-identified, person-specific health data including clinical utilization, expenditures, insurance enrollment/plan benefit, inpatient, outpatient, and outpatient prescription information. The data cover over twenty million individuals annually, include private sector health data from approximately 100 payers, and can be linked to track detailed patient information across sites, types of providers, and over time.
The Commercial Claims and Encounters and Medicare Supplemental Databases have the following structure:
Medical/surgical Claims files:
Inpatient Admissions file
Facility Header file
Inpatient Services file
Outpatient Services file
Outpatient Pharmaceutical Claims file
Annual Enrollment Summary file
Enrollment Detail file
Aggregated (not person-specific) Populations file
RED BOOK™ Supplement (includes variables related to drug prescription analysis)
The Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research holds an annually renewable license for the Commercial Claims and Encounters Database for the years 2000 through 2009. The Principal Investigator is M. Alan Brookhart, PhD, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, Department of Epidemiology; the Data Custodian is Roger Akers, Deputy Director, Sheps Center.
License fees:
Intramural (UNC) use sponsored by:
CTSA (Clinical & Translational Science Awards program)
Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research
Department of Epidemiology, UNC Gillings School of Global Health
Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy, School of Pharmacy
Training grants are covered under intramural use.
Pre-negotiated user fees will be assessed for grant-funded projects.
For more information contact marketscan@schsr.unc.edu
