The AAMC is a premier resource for peer benchmarking and data for members of the Council of Academic Health System Executives (CAHSE) who receive custom reports as part of their member benefits package at no additional charge. Below is an overview of the content of the reports and their release schedules.
The AAMC also provides pulse checks on important issues facing teaching hospitals and health systems, publicly available on the AAMC Patient Care Data Snapshots page.
For more information about any of these resources, contact AHSData@aamc.org.
COTH Data Tool
The COTH Data Tool enables Annual Survey of Hospital and Health System Operations and Financials (OpFin) respondents to access this Excel-based, benchmarking and data analysis application designed exclusively for AAMC-member health systems and teaching hospitals.
OpFin Annual Survey and Data Tool Supplement
A summary of key metrics from this financial and operational survey is published in electronic format once per year. All short-term, general, and nonfederal AAMC-member health systems and teaching hospitals are eligible to participate. The survey is fielded in March of each year to collect operational, financial, educational, and staffing characteristics for the prior fiscal year. The average annual response rate is 65%.
Quarterly Financial Survey and Benchmark Report
The data collected via the Quarterly Financial Survey, conducted since 1999, provides critically important information necessary to monitor the financial condition of member teaching hospitals. The report provides the most current financial data available on teaching hospitals for members to compare their information against their health system and teaching hospital peers. The reports are available to all members who participate in the survey.
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Hospital Compare Benchmark Report
The AAMC creates and distributes quarterly quality reports to all AAMC members displaying institutional performance, along with AAMC and national benchmarks, on national quality measures. These measures are included in the Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Program, the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP), the Hospital-Acquired Conditions (HAC) Reduction Program, and the Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) Program.
Estimated Financial Impact of Medicare IPPS Proposed and Final Rules Report
This report, generated uniquely for each member institution estimates hospital-specific Medicare inpatient revenue paid under the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) for the upcoming fiscal year to reflect rate updates and policy changes proposed and/or finalized in the annual regulatory process. The report provides users with the ability to input data and model overall impacts and per-case rate changes in a given fiscal year for their institution. The individualized reports are sent to each AAMC-member institution generally within one month of the release of the IPPS proposed regulations and within weeks of the release of the IPPS final regulations.
Estimated Financial Impact of Medicare OPPS Proposed and Final Rules Report
This report, generated uniquely for each member institution shows changes to hospital-specific Medicare outpatient revenue paid under the Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) for the upcoming year to reflect rate updates and policy changes proposed and/or finalized in the annual regulatory process. The report provides users the ability to unpack overall impacts by individual payment factors in a given year for their institution and benchmark against different hospital cohorts. The individualized reports are sent to each corresponding AAMC-member institution generally within one month of the release of the OPPS regulations.
Medicaid Direct and Indirect Graduate Medical Education Payments: A 50-State Survey
This publication provides the results of a 2022 survey of state Medicaid programs’ policies for financing direct graduate medical education costs and indirect medical education costs. The survey features information on payment type, funding mechanisms and methodologies, and expenditure estimates.
Medicare Quality Pay-for-Performance Report
This custom report illustrates step-by-step how your hospital's performance on individual Medicare quality measures is transformed into payment adjustments (including the Hospital VBP, the HRRP, and the HAC programs) and displays the impact of each program and individual quality measures on your payment rates. It walks through Medicare's scoring methodology and identifies areas for improvement, allowing the user to simulate different quality rates to estimate payment impacts from quality improvement gains. Finally, the report benchmarks your performance in the programs against other AAMC hospitals.
Mercer Integrated Health Networks (IHN) Executive Compensation Survey
The AAMC and Mercer Human Resource Consulting, Inc. collaborate each year to conduct the IHN Survey at no charge to AAMC members. All participating AAMC member health systems and institutions receive a complimentary survey report each fall, which consists of AAMC-only data. By participating in the IHN survey, AAMC member institutions are also eligible to access — at a substantial discount — Mercer's extensive suite of IHN compensation surveys.
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More Data and Reports from the AAMC
Report on Resident/Fellow Stipends and Benefits
Data from the AAMC Survey of Resident/Fellow Stipends and Benefits are publicly available to AAMC constituents and others with an interest in graduate medical education issues. The survey has been fielded annually since 1968. Institutions — either hospitals or medical schools — are instructed to complete the survey only if they issue the checks for resident stipends.
Center for Workforce Studies: U.S. Physician Workforce Data Dashboard and Other Reports
The AAMC Center for Workforce Studies conducts and disseminates research that informs health workforce policy and compels the nation toward the right mix of physicians, with the right skills and training, in the right places. The center also convenes workforce community leaders at Learn Serve Lead: The AAMC Annual Meeting in November. Click on the link above to find the most recent data and reports from the Center for Workforce Studies.