National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey Frame/Sample Redesign and Provider Data Sources

Lucinda Dalzell, Victoria Udalova, Alice Zawacki and Dennis Linders

CES Technical Notes Series from Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau

Abstract: The National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) is designed to meet the need for objective, reliable information about the provision and use of ambulatory medical care services in the United States. The survey is conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and the U.S. Census Bureau is the data collection agent. The survey was initially designed from 1967-1972 and first began collecting data in 1973. The sample is comprised of physicians classified by the American Medical Association (AMA) and American Osteopathic Association (AOA) as providing office-based care; not federally employed and not in the specialties of anesthesiology, radiology, or pathology. Changes in the health care landscape since the survey was initially designed many decades ago are impacting the response rates and out-of-scope rates of the survey. This report begins with background on NAMCS including the need and recommendations for a redesign. The second part of this report describes data sources from the Census Bureau, other Federal agencies, and non-government sources for developing an ambulatory medical care survey frame that more accurately targets in-scope providers at the outset of data collection.

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Date: 2024-03
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