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Guidance for identifying the cost report data that are available.
Final
Issued by: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Issue Date: July 20, 2020
Healthcare Cost Report Information System (HCRIS) Dataset - Home Health Agency (HHA) Release Date, January 23, 2012 - The data included with this release includes all years (from FY1994 through FY2011) of home health agency reports (CMS-Form-1728-94) received by HCRIS through 12/31/2011. There are a total of 108,310 cost reports.
NOTE: The HHA cost report datasets for FY 1994-2011 cannot be loaded into Microsoft Excel. The Rpt_Nmrc files are too large for this application.
Most of our data users are loading the data into Oracle, SAS, SPSS Statistical Package, Microsoft SQL Server, and DB2. Some users have reported successfully loading the data into Microsoft Access 2007; however, the stated limit from Microsoft is 2GB. CMS does not support or provide any technical assistance of user's choice of data load.
These files should be unzipped with Winzip 8.0 or a higher version.
There is a link to the Cost Report files by individual fiscal year in the left margin. This link will take you to all the downloadable cost report files.
Years Available: FY1994 - FY2011
NOTE: The HHA Cost Reporting worksheet forms can be found in the Provider Reimbursement Manual, Part II. The link is below. Scroll down to Chapter 32 (HHA Cost Report – CMS Form 1728-94).
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