Provider Almanac Currently Available!

Provider Almanac is currently available with new information.  Medicare Cost Reports have been updated with CMS data released through June 30, 2011.  CMS has received 5,458 hospital cost reports for 2010 or about 88%.  CMS has received and processed 6,172 or 99% of hospital cost reports with year ends in 2009.  CMS has processed 11,807 SNF cost reports for 2010 or about 82% and 14,361 reports for 2009 or about 99%.  CMS has processed 6,704 HHA cost reports for 2010 and 9,159 for 2009.  Provider Almanac is currently running on Windows 7 operating system, Vista and Windows XP SP2.       

Provider Almanac is currently available with new 2th quarter POS 2011 information. 

This upgrade was released on October 15, 2011.

  

Website Upgrade

The website has a new Reports section.  This section has the Profile reports for Hospitals, SNF, HHA and Hospice for the last 5 years.  The reports for 2010 contain the currently available cost reports.  The years for 2009, 2008, 2007 and 2006 are complete.  The reports are in PDF format and can be saved to your computer for future reference.  New reports with KPI information showing 5 year history are being added to the website. 

The report section was updated with new reports on October 15, 2011.

New Software Improvements!

Provider Almanac currently uses Crystal Reports 2010 and the user database is stored in SQL Server Express 2008 R2.  Recents changes by Microsoft substantially increased the installation time for Provider Almanac.  Crystal Reports has been replaced with the Microsoft Report Viewer.  SQL Server Express 2008 R2 has been replaced with SQL Server Compact Edition.  The installation time has been reduced from over 1 hour to under 10 minutes.  The system reports also have a new grid appearence that is much easier to read. 

The next upgrade to Provider Almanac will be the NPI information for physicians.  This will update the UPIN information that was discontinued by CMS in 2007. 

The new software was available by June 30, 2012.

Population Almanac in Development

Population Almanac is currently in development.  This almanac will contain the census for 1980, 1990, 2000 and 2010.  The census will have age, race, sex, household type and household size.  The census will have information for State, County, City/Place, Census Tract, ZTAC and Congressional District.  The current population estimates will be included for the last 8 years.  The population estimates will be available for State, County and City/Place.  The American Community Survey will be included for the last 8 years.  This survey replaces the census long form and verifies the population estimates by a statistical approach.  In a future release of Population Almanac, Medicare enrollment, postal delivery statistics, building permits and school enrollment information will be included.  See the page with Population Almanac on this website for more information.  

The first release of Population Almanac should be June 30, 2012.