Notice ID: 75N94022Q00076
“It is the intent of The National Institutes of Health (NIH), Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute on Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to award a purchase order, without providing for full and open competition, to Most Investments, LLC. Arlington, VA for access to the State Inpatient Databases for Arkansas (2010-2019), Florida (2010-2019), Georgia (2010-2019), Maryland (2010-2019), Mississippi (2013-2018), New Mexico (2010-2019) and New York (2010-2017).”
“This is a Notice of Intent to receive the services from Most Investments, LLC. because they are able to offer access to The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, a Federal-State-Industry partnership, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The database is a comprehensive, all-payer (including uninsured) inpatient hospitalization record including all inpatient discharge records and is uniformly formatted for comparison among the states…”
“The datasets we are acquiring are the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) State Inpatient Databases (SIDs) for Arkansas (2010-2019), Florida (2010-2019), Georgia (2010-2019), Maryland (2010-2019), Mississippi (2013-2018), New Mexico (2010-2019), and New York (2010-2017). The HCUP is a Federal-State-Industry partnership, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The resulting database is the most comprehensive, all-payer (including the uninsured) inpatient hospitalization database in the United States, including encounter-level information dating from 1988. The SIDs, a subset of the HCUP databases, includes all inpatient discharge records from the participating state, and is uniformly formatted to allow comparisons across states.9 Data captured include patient demographics (e.g., age, race/ethnicity, gender), insurance type, diagnoses, procedures, admission/discharge status, healthcare costs, and length of hospital stay. The selected state databases also contain a patient identifier (VisitLink) variable which allows researchers to track patients over time and across hospitals within the state…”