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Healthcare Worker Demand: 2009 Q4 Data

January 13, 2010 in Data, Supply of Medical Services | 2 comments

How is the health care labor market in your area?  HWS Enterprises put together a gauge of the healthcare workforce labor demand throughout 30 large metropolitan regions in the United States.  The results for Q4 are available here.  The strongest healthcare labor markets are Sacramento, Riverside, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Dallas.  The weakest is New York City.  My home, San Francisco, ranked 18th out the 30 large metro areas evaluated.

According to the Health Workforce Solutions’ press release:

The HWS Labor Market Pulse® Index (LMPI) provides a quarterly barometer of local market health care workforce expansion and contraction. Patterned loosely after the Case-Shiller home index and based on a proprietary algorithm, the LMPI identifies and enables comparison of 30 health care labor markets by tracking elements including temporary health workforce shortages and surpluses, facility and bed closures, announced layoffs and expansions, and local economic trends. The LMPI will be published quarterly as part of Labor Market Pulse® and distributed nationally to health care executives, the media and other interested parties.

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CPS undercounts Medicaid Enrollees

June 5, 2009 in Data, Medicaid/Medicare | No comments

Survey estimates of Medicaid enrollment are 43 percent lower than raw Medicaid program enrollment counts.  Why is this the case?  Roebuck and Liberman (HSR 2009) find that many people are not reporting that they have Medicaid coverage.  “43 percent of Medicaid enrollees answering the CPS as though they were not enrolled and 17 percent reported being uninsured.”

One reason for the underreporting could be that the poor may only enroll after they get sick.  Further, if they do not pay for Medicaid, they may feel that they are just receiving government assistance rather than “insurance.”

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Unemployment and Population Data on Google

May 13, 2009 in Data | 1 comment

Google has created easy to use charts on U.S. population and employment from public-use data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.  Instructions of how to use this data can be found here (video).  Here are some examples I created:

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Health Services Research Data

November 4, 2008 in Data | No comments

Are you looking for health services research data?  How can you leverage your knowledge for interdisciplinary research? AcademyHealth has a useful website called HSR Methods which will help you answer these questions.  Most importantly, there is a list datasets researchers can use.

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Medicare Part D data available

July 24, 2008 in Data, Pharmaceuticals | Permalink

For researchers interested in studying the Medicare prescription drug benefit, CMS has claims data for Medicare Part D.  Academy Health also has a useful powerpoint presentation giving some more information regarding Medicare Part D and what information is available as part of the CMS Medicare Part D claims data.

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