Data File Description. The Person-Round-Plan (PRPL) file for 2013 is a complex file of privately insured persons and their private health insurance plans and links to the jobs providing insurance. The PRPL file is designed to facilitate research on the sometimes complex and dynamic relationships between consumers and their private insurance. It is not a person-level file, and linking the PRPL file to a person-level file (such as HC-151, the Point-in-Time Public Use File, and HC-157, the Full-Year Population Characteristics File) requires users to make analytic decisions based on understanding the complexity of the PRPL file. Records contain the following types of information (Figure 1): • Covered person • Flags for whether the person is the policyholder or a dependent • Xxxxxxx enrolled at time of interview • Months enrolled during the reference period of the interview • Interview Round • Policyholder • Establishment providing insurance • Type of establishment (employer, union, insurance agent, etc.) • Types of coverage (hospital/physician, Medigap, dental, vision, prescription medication, Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA), single or family)1 • Out-of-pocket premiums and employee contributions • Plan (for hospital/physician and Medicare supplemental insurance coverage only) • Household reports of managed care • High deductibles and Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) for hospital/physician insurance coverage only • Links to the job providing insurance (for employment-based insurance only, HC-158, the Jobs Public Use File) FIGURE 1 CONCEPTUAL OVERVIEW OF PRPL Covered Person: Policyholder or Dependent Enrollment at Time of Interview or End of Year Interview Round Policyholder Links to Policyholder’s Job at Establishment (Employment-Based Insurance Only) Establishment Providing Insurance: Type of Establishment Types of Coverage Out-of-Pocket Premiums Plan (Hospital/Physician and Medigap Only): Managed Care High deductibles and Health Savings Accounts On the records for dependents, variables link to the policyholder’s job providing insurance, rather than the dependent’s job.
Data File Description. The Person-Round-Plan (PRPL) file for 2000 is a complex file of privately insured persons and their private health insurance plans and links to the jobs providing insurance. The PRPL file is designed to facilitate research on the sometimes complex and dynamic relationships between consumers and their private insurance. It is not a person-level file, and linking the PRPL file to a person-level file (such as HC-022 and HC-039) requires users making analytic decisions based on understanding the complexity of the PRPL file. Records contain the following types of information (Figure 1): $ Covered person ÷ Flags for whether the person is the policyholder or a dependent ÷ Xxxxxxx enrolled at time of interview ÷ Months enrolled during the reference period for the interview $ Interview Round $ Policyholder $ Establishment providing insurance ÷ Type of establishment (employer, union, insurance agent, etc.) ÷ Types of coverage (hospital/physician, medigap, dental, vision, prescription medication, long-term care, COBRA, single or family)1 ÷ Out-of-pocket premium (only for Panel 5 round 1 and only when either the plan is not through a current employer or union, or the plan is from a previous employer) $ Plan (for hospital/physician and Medicare supplemental insurance coverage only) ÷ Household reports of managed care 1No effort has been made to validate variables representing type of coverage with external sources. ÷ Family satisfaction with plan (collected for rounds 2 and 4) $ Links to the job providing insurance (for employment-based insurance only, HC-040) On the records for dependents, variables link to the policyholder=s job providing insurance, rather than the dependent=s job. AEstablishment@ refers to the organization through which the policyholder obtains private insurance. The establishment may be an employer, a union, an insurance agent, an insurance company, a professional association, or another type of organization. Many questions in the MEPS HC instrument are asked in reference to the establishment providing insurance to the policyholder. For example, the MEPS HC asks about the Atypes of health insurance@ or covered services, such as hospital/physician and dental coverage, the policyholder gets through the establishment. For each establishment, a Aplan@ is Athe insurance company or Health Maintenance Organization (HMO)” or self-insured company Afrom which (POLICYHOLDER) receives@ hospital/physician or Medicare supplemental (Medigap) coverage. For some fo...
Data File Description. The Person-Round-Plan (PRPL) file for 2016 is a complex file of privately insured persons and their private health insurance plans and links to the jobs providing insurance. The PRPL file is designed to facilitate research on the sometimes complex and dynamic relationships between consumers and their private insurance. It is not a person-level file, and linking the PRPL file to a person-level file (such as HC-177, the Point-in-Time Public Use File, and HC-184, the Full-Year Population Characteristics File) requires users to make analytic decisions based on understanding the complexity of the PRPL file. Records contain the following types of information (Figure 1): • Covered person • Flags for whether the person is the policyholder or a dependent • Xxxxxxx enrolled at time of interview • Months enrolled during the reference period of the interview • Interview Round • Policyholder • Establishment providing insurance • Type of establishment (employer, union, insurance agent, etc.) • Types of coverage (hospital/physician, Medigap, dental, vision, prescription medication, Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA), single or family)1 • Out-of-pocket premiums and employee contributions • Links to the job providing insurance (for employment-based insurance only, HC-185, the JOBS Public Use File) • Plan (for hospital/physician and Medicare supplemental insurance coverage only) 1 No effort has been made to validate variables representing type of coverage with external sources. • Household reports of health maintenance organizations (HMOs) • High deductibles and Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) for hospital/physician insurance coverage only FIGURE 1 CONCEPTUAL OVERVIEW OF PRPL On the records for dependents, variables link to the policyholder’s job providing insurance, rather than the dependent’s job.
Data File Description. This area is provided for the user to insert comments describing the BLM data file; these comments will then be saved along with the water chemistry parameters input by the user. Although this function is not of critical importance to the use of the BLM, for record-keeping and possibly quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) purposes, it is useful.
