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Texas Inpatient Public Use Data File (PUDF)

Texas Health Care Information Collection - Center for Health Statistics

In accordance with Health and Safety Code, Section 108.012(b),"the council (department) may charge a person requesting public use or provider quality data a fee for the data. The fees may reflect the quantity of information provided and the expense incurred by the council in collecting and providing the data and shall be set at a level that will raise revenue sufficient for the operation of the council (department's program). The council (department) may not charge a fee for providing public use data to another Texas state agency. 

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The Texas Public Use Data File (PUDF) contains data on discharges from Texas hospitals. Data are available by quarter beginning with data for 1999. The PUDF has been released through first quarter 2024. The second quarter 2024 is tentatively scheduled to be released in March 2025. 
 
Purchasing the PUDF requires a completed Order Form, which includes a Data Use Agreement. Information on the data fields is included in the user manuals available below. The data files for data released after 2004 include 255 data fields in a base data file and 13 data fields in a detailed charges file. Data files for years before 2004 include only 205 data fields. The user manual for fourth quarter 2015 is only for this quarter, User Manual, 4Q2015. The user manual for the first through third quarter 2015 data is in User Manual, 2015. If you have trouble viewing any of the documents below, please contact the HHS Accessibility Office, at Accessibility@hhsc.state.tx.us.

Purchasing the Inpatient PUDF requires a completed Order Form, which includes a Data Use Agreement.

2024 PUDF Hospital Discharges 
First quarter, 708 hospitals Base data: 820,346 records Charges data: 15,982,731 records
2023 PUDF Hospital Discharges 
First quarter, 696 hospitals Base data: 790,235 records Charges data: 15,178,746 records
Second quarter, 700 hospitals Base data: 792,582 records Charges data: 15,084,398 records
Third quarter, 698 hospitals Base data: 816,350 records Charges data: 15,425,058 records
Fourth quarter, 707 hospitals Base data: 821,314 records Charges data: 15,684,199 records
2022 Outpatient Surgical and radiological procedures
First quarter, 696 hospitals Base data: 742,698 records Charges data: 14,180,835 records
Second quarter, 699 hospitals Base data: 755,432 records Charges data: 14,098,476 records
Third quarter, 697 hospitals Base data: 792,667 records Charges data: 14,670,366 records
Fourth quarter, 699 hospitals Base data: 799,712 records Charges data: 15,098,417 records

User Manuals (PDF format)

Reporting Status (PDF format)

Statistics on Hospital Discharges (Excel format)

Comments Submitted by Hospitals about Their Data (PDF format)

Texas Health Data

Texas Health Data is an interactive public data system that allows you to query THCIC PUDF and statistical reports for Texas healthcare utilization and quality measures.

Texas Health Data

Free Data Download

The Public Use Data File (PUDF) for 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018, in fixed-length and tab-delimited format, are available for free download. The data is available for free download by going to the inpatient free data page.  Read the licensee agreement.  By clicking agree you agree to the conditions and the data will be available for download

Technical Update

Outpatient data records (Type of Bill is 131) from four different facilities were submitted, certified and included in the inpatient dataset for the second quarter 2020.

The list of those Record IDs of outpatient dataset that were included in the inpatient dataset can be found at the link below.

An update has been released for the third quarter 2019 following files: “PUDF_base1_3Q2019.txt” and PUDF_base1_3Q2019_tab.txt”; “PUDF_base2_3Q2019.txt” and “PUDF_base2_3Q2019_tab.txt” and the "PUDF_charges_3Q2019.txt" and PUDF_charges_3Q2019_tab.txt files. Eleven facilities submitted incorrect charge data, where the numbers reported were 100 times higher. The update contains the correct reporting of those facilities charge data. The following Excel Spreadsheet contains three tabs representing the three PUDF files: Charges, Base 1 and Base 2. 

The header of each tab contains the Record ID and the applicable Data Element Title that needs to be replaced in the associated file. Released August 14, 2020

Charges Tab: RECORD_ID; UNIT_RATE; and CHRGS_LINE_ITEM

Base1 Tab: RECORD_ID; TOTAL_CHARGES; and TOTAL_CHARGES_ACCOMM

Base2 Tab: RECORD_ID; and SEMI_PRIVATE_AMOUNT 

An update has been released for the first quarter 2019 “Facility_type1q2019.txt” and “Facility_type1q2019_tab.txt” files. A number of facilities that submitted data were not included in those files. The update contains the correct reporting of the facilities and facility type information for the 1Q2019 Inpatient Facility Type files. All other data files were correctly reported and in the appropriate data files. Released February 10, 2020

An update has been released for the first quarter 2017 Inpatient /Outpatient data dictionary. The previous released version in the 1Q2017 CD/DVD discs (Last Updated: December, 2017) has been found that the coding scheme for the data element PAT_STATUS was misaligned. The updated data dictionary contains the correct code scheme for PAT_STATUS.

An update has been released for the third quarter 2016 Inpatient Status Reports. The facilities listed in the update were assigned an erroneous status. The update contains the correct reporting status for each facility.

  • Third quarter, 2016 - Update in Excel form 

An update has been released for the third quarter 2012 file. The records identified in the update are duplications of Outpatient claims and should be deleted from your copy of the Quarter 3 2012 Inpatient Public Use Data File (PUDF).

  • Third quarter, 2012 - Update in Excel form

Fourth quarter 2011 Inpatient computer disks (4Q2011 Inpatient CD) did not include the Facility Type files. December 17, 2012.

Records for additional discharges in Quarter 2, 2010 have been found to be duplicated in the data for Quarter 3, 2010. The following update includes the Record ID for those duplicate records that should be deleted from your copy of the Quarter 3 Public Use Data File (PUDF). September 7, 2011.

  • Third quarter, 2010 - Update in Excel format

An update has been released for the third quarter 2010 charges file. The records identified in the update do not include charges and should be deleted from your copy of the Quarter 3 2010 Public Use Data File (PUDF).

  • Third quarter, 2010 - Update in Excel format

Records for additional discharges in Quarter 1, 2010 have been found to be duplicated in the data for Quarter 2, 2010. The following update includes the Record ID for those duplicate records that should be deleted from your copy of the Quarter 2 Public Use Data File (PUDF). September 7, 2011.

  • Second quarter, 2010 - Update in Excel format

An update has been released for the second quarter 2010 charges file. The records identified in the update do not include charges and should be deleted from your copy of the Quarter 2 2010 Public Use Data File (PUDF).

  • Second quarter, 2010 - Update in Excel format

Charges records for some discharges were inadvertently omitted from the Second quarter 2010 PUDF. These records should be added to your copy of the Quarter 2 2010 Public Use Data File (PUDF).

Records for additional discharges in Quarter 4, 2009 have been found to be duplicated in the data for Quarter 1, 2010. The following update includes the Record ID for those duplicate records that should be deleted from your copy of the Quarter 1 Public Use Data File (PUDF). August 19, 2011.

  • First quarter, 2010 - Update in Excel format

Records for some discharges in Quarter 4, 2009 were inadvertently duplicated in the data for Quarter 1, 2010. The following update includes the Record ID for those duplicate records that should be deleted from your copy of the Quarter 1 Public Use Data File (PUDF). May 18, 2011.

  • First quarter, 2010 - Update in Excel format

Records for some discharges in Quarter 1, 2009 were inadvertently duplicated in the data for Quarter 2, 2009. The following update includes the Record ID for those duplicate records that should be deleted from your copy of the Quarter 2 Public Use Data File (PUDF). September 9, 2010.

  • Second quarter, 2009 - Update in Excel format

Updates to correct missing uniform physician identifiers have been released for the second, third and fourth quarter 2007 Public Use Data Files (PUDF) and the first, second and third quarter 2008 PUDF. The updates include uniform identifiers for the Attending Physician and Operating Physician fields, ATTENDING_PHYSICIAN_UNIF_ID and OPERATING_PHYSICIAN_UNIF_ID, that were set to missing in the original files. Use the update to correct your copy of the PUDF files. For more information please contact THCIC Staff. 

An update has been released for the second quarter 2006 Public Use Data File (PUDF). It updates county codes, ZIP codes and Public Health Regions that were set to missing in the original file. Use the update to correct your copy of the PUDF. For more information please contact THCIC Staff.

An update has been released for the third quarter 2004 Public Use Data File (PUDF). The update includes those records for which the 3M APR-DRG grouping was corrected. This correction was necessitated because some records were not grouped with Version 20 of the APR-DRG Grouper. The files include the Record ID and four additional data elements: APR-DRG code, APR-MDC, Severity of Illness, and Risk of Mortality. Use the update to correct your copy of the PUDF.

Updates have been released for the 2003 PUDF. The updates include Patient Status codes for those records where the patient status was incorrectly indicated as invalid. The files contain the 12-digit Encounter ID and the 2-digit Patient Status Code. Use the files to update your copy of the PUDF. September 23, 2005

The User Manuals for 1999, 2000 and 2001 have been updated to correctly document the data field ADMIT WEEKDAY. The values for this data field should be interpreted as:

  • Monday
  • Tuesday
  • Wednesday
  • Thursday
  • Friday
  • Saturday
  • Sunday

Data Purchasers

The list of organizations includes a variety of organizations that use the data for analysis. The listing includes recipients from calendar year 2022 through calendar year 2023. This list is updated annually. (February 7, 2024)

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