Highlights
- Your participation in the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) will help provide high-quality, nationally representative data.
- Your contributions ensure that your geographic region and its communities served by health centers are represented.
- NAMCS data can help drive policy change and improve health care in the United States.
Welcome
Congratulations! You have been selected to participate in the Health Center Component of the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS). NAMCS is the foremost study of ambulatory care in the United States.
Quotation
"By participating in NAMCS, you are directly contributing to our understanding of how ambulatory care is used and provided. Your data inform the public and can help researchers and policymakers improve our nation's health."
—Carol DeFrances, Ph.D., director of the Division of Health Care Statistics.
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Inform and improve health care
Nationally representative data about ambulatory care provides value to the entire healthcare system. Reliable, high-quality data support—
- Evidence-based decision-making by policymakers
- Operational policies across ambulatory care settings
- Medical education for current and future providers
- Research to understand and improve healthcare delivery
HRSA endorses participation
Represent others like you
Experts at the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) designed the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey Health Center Component to represent health centers across the United States. Together, health centers invited to participate in NAMCS can help paint a complete picture of ambulatory medical care services across the country.
Each health center selected for NAMCS represents other similar centers in the same geographic region and medical specialty. Without your help, it will be difficult to estimate the characteristics of centers, providers, and patient care taking place in facilities like yours.
Participation in NAMCS is completely voluntary, but it is very important. If you choose not to participate, you cannot be replaced. That could mean health centers like yours and the communities you serve may be underrepresented in the survey and in the resulting national data.
Receive a set-up fee
Your health center can receive a set-up fee of up to $10,000 to help you prepare and transmit your electronic health records. The set-up fee will be paid in two installments of up to $5,000 each—one after completion of testing and validation and another upon completion of the your first annual data submission.
Make a difference
Equitable healthcare delivery begins with you
Your participation in NAMCS directly contributes to our understanding of ambulatory health care in the United States.
Healthcare policy makers, public health professionals, and researchers can use these data to make health care more accessible and equitable.
Contact us
We're here to answer your questions.
NHCS Division of Health Care Statistics
Phone: 800–392–2862
Email: ambcare@cdc.gov