Sparksoft’s all-inclusive data offerings inform your data-driven decisions and allow you to ask critical population health management questions. We are now offering analytic ready, public data sets as part of our mission is to facilitate access to U.S. government public data.
Our Core Data offerings cover many federally relevant subjects, including:
•American Medical Provider Listings sourced from CMS’s PECOS and NPPES system, updated weekly and dating back to 2022.
•American Census data collected by US Census in both 5 and 10 year increments from 1990 to 2020.
•American Drug and Alcohol and Mental Health treatment facilities directories from 2021 to present.
•Nursing Home data, from 2015 to present as well as Nursing Home COVID-19 data from 2021 to present.
•Home Health Care Agencies Data, sourced from CMS from 2015 to present.
•Open Payments Data sourced from CMS, from 2013 to present.
•Social Vulnerability Index data, sourced from atsdr.cdc.gov from 2014 to present.
•Environmental Justice Index Data, sourced from atsdr.cdc.gov from 2022 to present.
With the all-inclusive package, users are granted unlimited access to all public, analytic-ready data sets provided by Sparksoft Corporation. We are happy to expand this data offering to include any additional public data asset our customers would like us to maintain.
For more information about each data asset including a detailed list of contents, please consult our technical documentation page:
https://sparksoftcorp.com/files/data_share_supporting_documentation.html
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PECOS
PECOS stands for Provider, Enrollment, Chain, and Ownership System. PECOS is a Medicare enrollment management system that permits individuals and entities to enroll as Medicare providers or suppliers. It's essential that providers enroll in PECOS if they wish to file Medicare claims. For this reason, PECOS is an excellent resource for examining the distribution of Medicare- enrolled providers. This table includes basic enrollment and provider information including National Provider Identifier (NPI), provider type code, reassignment of benefits information and practice location city, state, and zip.
Ask questions like:
•What are the locations and provider details of Clinical Social Workers who accept Medicare in New Orleans?
•What is the provider’s primary specialty?
•What entities did a practitioner reassign benefits to?
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Decennial Census
The Decennial Census contains summary statistics on population and housing subjects down to the block level for the 2020, 2010, and 2000 United States Census. Users can explore trends across ages, races, and ethnicities in the United States, along with critical data on housing vacancies and populations living in urban versus rural environments.
Answer questions such as:
•What is the population of Hispanic or Latino individuals living in rural areas of Florida?
•How has the population of Black or African American individuals over the age of 18 in Fredrick, MD changed since 2000?
•Has there been an increase in vacant housing units in Bel Air, MD since 2010?
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Open Payments
Open Payments houses a publicly accessible database of payments that reporting entities, including drug and medical device companies, make to covered recipients like physicians. Open payments data can be used in a variety of research types, including Healthcare Administration Research, Health Policy Research, Medical Device Research, and Healthcare Spending Research.
Ask questions like:
• What type of payments did physicians in Virginia receive from Medical Device companies last year?
• How have payment trends changed since 2015?
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NPPES
CMS established the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) to assign standard unique identifiers for health care providers and plans in compliance with HIPAA. The purpose of these provisions is to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the electronic transmission of health information.
Ask questions like:
• How many OBGYN’s are present in the New Orleans area?
• What is the specialty/ taxonomy of a particular practice?
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CMS Nursing Home Data
The package Includes 20 tables of Nursing Home data, complete with data definitions and data demographics. These datasets allow you to compare the average level of a nursing home's performance in several areas of care for Medicare-certified skilled nursing facilities and nursing homes nationwide.
Ask questions like:
• What is the percentage of current residents or staff members up to date with COVID-19 vaccines in a particular facility?
• What are all of the Nursing Home provider names and addresses in Alabama?
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American Community Survey (5-Year Census)
The 2016–2020 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Estimates American Community Survey provides a wide range of important statistics about people and housing for every community in the nation down to the block level, on race, ethnicity, age, housing units, and sex.
Ask questions like:
•What is the population of Hispanic or Latino individuals in Dallas?
•What is the estimated population of voting-age male citizens in New York?
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The Environmental Justice Index (EJI)
The Environmental Justice Index (EJI) ranks the cumulative impacts of environmental injustice on health for every census tract, examining environmental, social, and health factors. Explore detailed data on socioeconomic factors, chronic illness prevalence, environmental burdens, and health vulnerability that drives environmental injustice in the United States.
The EJI data can answer relevant questions such as:
•What factors contribute to Social Vulnerability in terms of Socioeconomic Status in the United States?
•Which areas of North Carolina have a high relative prevalence of PM2.5 pollution?
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National Mental Health Treatment Facilities and National Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities List
Sparksoft is offering two treatment facility lists: The National Directory of Mental Health Treatment Facilities and The National Directory of Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities, comprising of lists of government and private facilities that provide mental health treatment services/ alcohol and drug treatment services.
Ask questions like:
•Which Drug and Alcohol treatment centers have specialized groups for persons living with HIV/AIDS?
•Which Mental Health treatments facilities accept Medicaid in Texas?
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Social Vulnerability Index (SVI)
The SVI explores socioeconomic factors, environmental burdens, and health vulnerability that drives inequity in the United States. SVI ranks Census tracts relatively on 16 social factors, like unemployment, racial and ethnic minority status, and disability with population estimates for each factor.
Ask questions like:
•What is the estimated population of persons below 150% poverty level in Los Angeles County, CA?
•What counties in Southern Florida will likely need continued support after a natural disaster?
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Home Health Care Data
Sparksoft is offering the CMS complete dataset of home health services. Compare quality of care provided in Medicare-certified home health services nationwide.
As questions like:
•How do the star ratings of home health agencies compare across states?
•How has the National Quality of Patient Care Star Rating changed over the past three years?