Provider Almanac Currently Available!

Provider Almanac is currently available with new information.  Medicare Cost Reports have been updated with CMS data released through March 31, 2010.  CMS has received 3,547 hospital cost reports for 2009 or about 58%.  CMS has received and processed 6,162 or 99% of hospital cost reports with year ends in 2008.  CMS has processed 14,250 SNF cost reports for 2008 and 4042 reports for 2009.  CMS has processed 8,196 HHA cost reports for 2008 and 1,545 for 2009.  Provider Almanac is currently running in the new Windows 7 operating system, Vista and Windows XP.       

Provider Almanac is currently available with new 4th quarter POS 2009 information. 

This upgrade was released on May 21, 2010.

  

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 2009 contain the currently available cost reports.  The years for 2008, 2007 and 2006 are complete.  The reports are in PDF format and can be saved to your computer for future reference.  New reports will be added in the future. 

The report section was added on May 21, 2010.

New Summary Reports!

The new Summary Reports for SNF, HHA and Hospice have been added in this software upgrade .  The new reports include the Profile Report, KPI Report and Compare Report.  The Compare Report covers 5 years of history. 

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 on January 31, 2010.

Population Almanac in Development

Population Almanac is currently in development.  This almanac will contain the census for 1980, 1990 and 2000.  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 December 31, 2010.