Physicians' Practice Costs and Income Survey (PPCIS)

This series contains data from 4,729 doctors from across the United States and across the spectrum of medical specialties. This health and social survey contains information on the cost of providing medical care, income, financial arrangements, alternative forms of practice, service delivery, changes in physician-hospital arrangements, par ticipation in public programs, and patient characteristics.

It also includes physician socio-demographic data, county-level health care resources data, and hospital-level data. This data comprises government records extracted from the Archival Research Catalog (ARC). See the ARC catalog entry for this series for more information on this data and how to order it.