The license numbers identify the attending physician and the physician who performed the principal procedure. Customers must purchase the Quarterly Ambulatory Surgery Data File separately. Wisconsin hospitals submit one record for each discharged patient. Hospitals and surgery centers submit one record for each planned outpatient surgery episode. The fields in each record are a subset of the information that appears on standard patient billing forms.
Facilities submit data on a quarterly basis.
In the data files available for purchase from BHI, each record contains a subset of the variables originally submitted by the hospital or surgery center. Confidentiality provisions prohibit BHI from releasing the full complement of variables. Please refer to this list of Patient Data Elements for more information about what each record contains.