How can we license data regarding the number of cervical surgeries --
by US Zip Code? (Possibly via Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA)
or ICD-9 data? Who is a vendor for this information? Costs?)

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Request for Question Clarification by bobbie7-ga on 08 Sep 2005 11:01 PDT

Hello Frankkilpatrick,

Please take a look  at the HCUP Central Distributor and let me know if
this service meets your needs.
http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/tech_assist/centdist.jsp

Waiting to hear your views.

Best regards,
Bobbie7

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Clarification of Question by frankkilpatrick-ga on 08 Sep 2005 23:34 PDT

This could be a start: To win the bear, you'll need to supply me the
vendor who can provide us the estimated data (number of cervical
surgeries) -- possibly via Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA)
or ICD-9 info --  including the beginnings of costs, list counts by
ZIP, etc. so that we can actually acquire this specific data from
him/her.
 
Thanks very much, Frank Kilpatrick

One vendor is Verispan's SMG division. It has the Diagnosis &
Procedure Analyzer (DPA)

http://www.verispan.com/products/data_sheet.asp?c=3&p=16

Custom Reports provide you with the most up-to-date information on
procedures and diagnoses occurring in hospitals today - information as
recent as ten weeks old! You select the ICD-9 or CPT-4 codes of your
choice and we deliver national and regional statistics on the number
of encounters for the most recent twelve months, the last full
calendar year, or year-to-date. Opt to see national counts broken out
by month or quarter. DPA includes fifteen different reports showing
patient and hospital characteristics, practitioner specialties, payer
distribution, revenue center charges, associated diagnoses and
procedures and a regional break out down to the nine census divisions
for inpatient and outpatient activity. DPA can be used to answer a
variety of questions and help you understand shifts and practices in
today's hospital environment.

To request more information about Diagnosis & Procedure Analyzer
(DPA), call 1-800-982-5613, or fill out this request form.


http://www.solucient.com/solutions/Solucients_Databases.shtml

Another is Solucient.  

Projected Inpatient Database (PIDB)

This is the largest all-payer inpatient database in the health care
industry. Updated quarterly, the PIDB contains approximately 20
million discharges per year from more than 2,800 acute care hospitals,
representing more than 50 percent of all discharges. The PIDB includes
data from various hospital system and state hospital association
contracts, public and non-public state data, and individual hospitals
contracting with Solucient.

The PIDB is extrapolated to represent the entire universe of
short-term, general, non-federal U.S. hospital discharges. This
universe is defined using the National Hospital Discharge Survey,
produced by the National Center for Health Statistics, and the
Medicare Provider Analysis and Review File (MedPAR), produced by the
Health Care Financing Administration. The PIDB contains a
statistically validated projection methodology that controls for
patient age and sex, bed service category, census region, bed size,
and teaching status.


You can find some of the data at the DRG level (national totals) at this site.

http://www.cms.hhs.gov/statistics/medpar/default.asp

Thank you for your valuable input. FSK