Attachment 25 – HC Tips for Making Your MEPS Interview Easier

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Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component and Medical Provider Component (MEPS-HC and MEPS-MPC)

Attachment 25 – HC Tips for Making Your MEPS Interview Easier

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TIPS FOR MAKING YOUR MEPS INTERVIEW EASIER



Use records like these to make it easier to answer the MEPS survey questions:



  • Records covering health care appointments for all household members



  • A family calendar, or each person’s own calendar

  • Electronic calendar in a cell phone, laptop, tablet or IPad, etc

  • Appointment cards or email reminders from a medical provider

  • Receipts

  • Explanation of Benefits (EOB) from your health insurance provider

  • Computerized health care records, including those from your provider or patient portal

  • MEPS monthly planner with your notes added



  • Records covering health care received without an appointment



  • Emergency Room (ER) or Walk-In Clinic discharge instructions or receipts

  • Payment records (e.g., credit card statements, debit card records, checkbook log)

  • Health care provider business cards

  • Prescription medicine bottles

  • Pharmacy print-outs

  • Explanation of Benefits (EOB) from your health insurance provider

  • Lab referral or result records



THANK YOU for gathering this information for all household members!


** Your MEPS interviewer is happy to work with you **

in using these documents during the interview



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  • Diagnostic tests such as blood work, X-rays, mammograms, MRI or CAT scans

  • Vaccinations for children and adults

  • Flu shots and allergy shots

  • All types of preventative care, including well visits

  • Dental check-ups, and orthodontic care (braces)

  • Blood pressure checks and other types of heart health monitoring

  • Eye exams and prescription glasses or contact lenses

  • Counseling and other care from psychologists or mental health specialists

  • Physical, speech or occupational therapy

  • Chiropractic care, acupuncture, homeopathic or other alternative care

  • Prescription medicines including birth control, insulin and diabetic supplies

  • Care received at home by visiting nurses or other home health aides

  • Phone calls to medical providers or labs to check test results

And much more -- ask your interviewer if you are not sure what to include

Of course, MEPS also counts ….





  • Hospital stays, even if just part of a day or longer

  • Care received at the Emergency Room or Urgent Care Centers

  • Care at walk-in clinics such as clinics at work, or in a pharmacy (Minute Clinics)

  • Sick visits to a doctor, nurse or physician assistant

  • Pre-natal care, and all other obstetrician/gynecological care

  • Pre-op care before surgery, the surgery and the follow-up care

  • Cancer treatments including chemotherapy and radiation

  • Dialysis and other long term treatments

  • Oral surgery

And much more -- ask your interviewer if you are not sure what to include

MEPS counts many things you might not think of as “health care”….





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