Sparksoft Corporation

Sparksoft’s all-inclusive data offerings inform your data-driven decisions and allow you to ask critical population health management questions. 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.

gov from 2014 to present. gov from 2022 to present. •CMS Order and Referring Data, Physicians who order and refer in the Medicare program and have enrollment records in Medicare.

•AHRQ's Social Determinants of Health Users are granted unlimited access to 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. , health insurance) -- 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?

-- 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? -- 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?

-- National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) assigns 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? -- CMS Nursing Home Data 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? -- American Community Survey (5-Year Census 2016–2020) .