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301 – Weighting Adjustments
Deriving a Person-Level Weight for Analyzing MEPS Supplemental Data from a Linked Medical Organization Survey
Marc Zodet
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Sadeq R. Chowdhury
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) is an ongoing household survey that yields national estimates of various health care metrics; including health care use, expenditures, and insurance coverage. The MEPS also includes a medical provider component (MEPS-MPC) that is designed to collect information from the health care service providers reported by the household. To address the increased demand for data on organizational characteristics of providers and/or health care practices, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation sponsored a pilot Medical Organization Survey (MOS). This survey is an extension of the MEPS-MPC and collects this type of data from a subset of MEPS sample medical providers. The MOS pilot was first fielded in 2016 and the data were made available through the release of a public use data file (PUF) in spring 2017. This paper discusses the construction of the analytic weights included on the MOS PUF.