SON_OMAS_Hospital Data Sam.pdf

Statement of Need (SON)

Project Title: _American Hospital Association Annual Survey of Hospital Data Purchase (2025)

1. Type of Statement of Need

Statement of Need - Equipment Statement of Need – License Agreement

Statement of Need – Supply/Product Statement of Need – Subscription Services

Statement of Need – Maintenance Service Statement of Need – Warranty Agreement

Statement of Need – Other

2. Technical Background and Contractual History

This is a new requirement (Describe Technical Background below)

This is a follow-on requirement

Technical Background: The below referenced data is necessary in order to continue our access to data on hospital systems on a timely basis as needed for Reports to Congress assigned to ASPE and required under Section 109 of the No Surprises Act.

Contractual History

ASPE has purchased this data annually for several consecutive years from this vendor

3. Compatibility or Performance Characteristics for Supply of Service

Required Features & Benefits of the acquisition:

ASPE conducts various health policy studies that require information on provider market structure, including hospital concentration. The AHA’s Annual Survey Database is the only national database that has updated information on the hospital system ID that would allow treating all hospitals belonging to a system within a geographic area as a single entity. The other national hospital level database is the hospital Cost Report maintained by CMS; the Cost Report, however, does not provide system level identification necessary for summarizing individual hospitals to the associated system level. The current purchase order would allow ASPE to update this information to the latest year available.

The AHA database is the only national hospital-level dataset that is updated on an annual basis and that provides the data necessary many projects at ASPE including hospital system market structure and hospital staffing capacity. The database includes up to 1,000 data fields on the characteristics of approximately 6,500 hospitals including organizational structure, facility and service lines, inpatient and outpatient utilization, physician arrangements, staffing, corporate and purchasing affiliations, teaching status, geographic indicators, and cross-reference identifiers (e.g., Medicare Provider Number and National Provider Identifier). Specific fields required for many ASPE projects include hospital county, ZIP code, service category, profit status, number of admissions, and system membership and detailed staffing data.

The contractor shall supply a dataset with all these elements to ASPE.

Compatibility/Performance Requirements

5. Delivery or Performance-Period Requirements

Period of Performance:

Delivery Requirements: The contractor shall make the data file available to ASPE via a web portal or other secure means.