Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Public Use File Details

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MEPS HC-250: 2023 Person Round Plan File

Release date: August 2025

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This public use file is one in a series of data files drawn from the 2023 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements, a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file, the 2023 Person Round Plan (PRPL) File contains records for persons insured through private establishments providing hospital/physician, medigap, dental, vision, or prescription medication coverage during calendar year 2023. These data are designed to facilitate research on the sometimes complex and dynamic relationships between consumers and their private insurance. Each record comprises data for a unique combination of insurance establishment, policyholder, interview round, insurance plan, and covered person. The PRPL File contains data for each person with private health insurance reported in Rounds 3-5 of Panel 27 and Rounds 1-3 of Panel 28 of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), corresponding to the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2023. Because the PRPL File is not a person-level file, linking it to the 2023 Full-Year Consolidated File (HC-251) requires users to make analytic decisions that reflect an understanding of the PRPL file's complexity. For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page

Documentation

File type

Documentation	PDF (466 KB) / HTML
Codebook	PDF (155 KB) / HTML*
SAS Programming Statements	TXT (40 KB)
SPSS Programming Statements	TXT (13 KB)
STATA Programming Statements	TXT (18 KB)
R Programming Statements	TXT (8.5 KB)

Data	File type**

Data File, ASCII format

ZIP (568 KB)

Data File, SAS transport format

ZIP (693 KB)

Data File, SAS V9 format

ZIP (746 KB)

Data File, Stata format

ZIP (574 KB)

Data File, XLSX format

ZIP (3.5 MB)

Questionnaires — see Survey Questionnaires
The PDF version of the codebook is recommended for printing; the HTML version is database driven and lets you navigate quickly to details on each variable. *Right-click on the data file link, then select Save Target As or Save Link As to download the file.

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