Data Set

MarketScan

The Merative™ MarketScan® Research database provides deidentified, longitudinal, patient-level claims and is one of the largest and longest-running medical claims databases available. Indiana University has access to these data through December 2028 (and intending to extend the contract assuming high use of this resource at IU), for data years 2016 through the most recent year available (2023), with annual updates guaranteed through data year 2026 (to be delivered in December 2027). Our data set currently includes over sixty million patients.

Documentation
Access Instructions

  • Available to IU faculty, IU research staff, and IU PhD students (working on existing faculty projects). All analysis of the MarketScan data must be performed on UITS Research Technologies High Performance Computing Systems. MarketScan is available to use without fee for existing research projects, and for internally funded research projects. Use of MarketScan in grant-funded research requires a fee to be written into the proposal budget before the grant is submitted.

  • An eligible member of the IU community who wishes to use Marketscan data would:

    • Fill out the form and review and agree to the NDA to get access to the MarketScan documentation.
    • Complete a brief Canvas course that includes reviewing the vendor’s conditions for using the data and fill out another short form agreeing to these terms.
    • Meet with the Technical Data Custodian to review these data handling requirements again, and to review an example research data engineering workflow for using the MarketScan data.
    • Proceed with a 45-day trial period where you have access to a large sample of the MarketScan data. The trial period can be extended if needed. The goal is to make sure the data is a good fit for your research, that you understand the data handling requirements, and that you have a functioning data engineering workflow in place.
    • After meeting the requirements to exit the trial period which include providing a summary of proposed research, and a short meeting with the technical data custodian to review your workflow, you will be given access to the full data set.
    • The dataset is only available for use only on UITS Research Technologies systems (Research Desktop, Quartz, Slate, Slate Scratch).
Timeframe
  • 2016-2023
Keyword Subject
  • Health insurance claims
  • Epidemiology
Spatial Subject
  • United States
Domain Subject
Data Location
  • Slate Project
Public Contact
Hosting Unit
Campus
Access Eligibility