Hospital price transparency

Medicare Inpatient Hospitals by Geography (avg payments per MS-DRG)

medicare_silver.fact_inpatient_payment_by_geo·live·silver·Medicare Fee-for-Service Utilization & Payments

Rows

331,464

Columns

History

N/A

Card

nocolumns only

Typed tools

What it is

1CMS public-use file "Medicare Inpatient Hospitals - by Geography and Service" — annual, claims-derived: discharges + avg submitted covered charge / total payment / Medicare payment per MS-DRG at national + per-state.
2The DRG-level Medicare INPATIENT payment benchmark — pairs with the hospital chargemaster (HPT) and the IPPS relative weights (dim_msdrg) to anchor inpatient repricing.
3Claims-derived averages, NOT the contractual IPPS rate tables.

Grain

Key	Grain
N/A	1One row per (geography [National\|State], MS-DRG) per data year.

Columns (25)

Column	Type	Meaning
`data_year`	int
`geo_level`	string
`geo_cd`	string
`geo_desc`	string
`drg_cd`	string
`drg_desc`	string
`tot_dschrgs`	bigint
`avg_submtd_cvrd_chrg`	double
`avg_tot_pymt_amt`	double
`avg_mdcr_pymt_amt`	double
`observed_period`	date
`asserted_at`	date
`effective_period_start`	date
`effective_period_end`	date
`cms_vintage_sequence`	int
`parse_revision`	int
`parser_artifact_hash`	string
`source_url`	string
`sha256_content_hash`	string
`source_id`	string
`is_current`	boolean
`bronze_object_key`	string
`s3_version_id`	string
`vintage_tag`	string
`drug_source_version_id`	string

Query it

describe_data_source(source_fqn="medicare_silver.fact_inpatient_payment_by_geo")     # the card, live
query_substrate(sql="SELECT * FROM medicare_silver.fact_inpatient_payment_by_geo WHERE <filter> LIMIT 100")

Item	Value
Typed tools that read it	none; raw SQL
Identity key	`drg_cd`
Join	`how_to_join(source_fqn="medicare_silver.fact_inpatient_payment_by_geo")`
Raw door	Athena (read-only via query_substrate): medicare_silver.fact_inpatient_payment_by_geo
Note	Iceberg table medicare_silver.fact_inpatient_payment_by_geo, partitioned by data_year (replace, idempotent by SHA-256). Data year parsed from filename (DY24 -> 2024). Ingested by the same build-medicare-hospital-geo runner.

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