Hospital Discharge & Outpatient/ASC Surgery Data Submissions

Inpatient discharge data from hospitals is submitted annually in either a flat file format or an XML format. Outpatient and Ambulatory Surgery Center data is submitted in a flat file format. The preferred method of data submission is to use the Health Care Information secure web site. 

Submission manuals list the data elements, coding structure and format of the submission requirements. For data collected in 2007, to be submitted in 2008, see the following submission manuals.

Inpatient - flat file format

2007 Hospital Inpatient Discharge Data Submission Manual (419.0K PDF)

2007 Hospital Inpatient Discharge Data Submission Manual Addendum (7.0K PDF)

Inpatient - XML format

2007 Hospital Inpatient Discharge Data Submission Manual (XML Format) (371.0K PDF)

2007 Hospital Inpatient Discharge Data Submission Manual Addendum (XML Format) (10.0K PDF)

Hospital-Based Outpatient Surgery

2007 Hospital Based Outpatient Surgery Data Submission Manual (421.0K PDF)

Ambulatory Surgery Center

2007 Ambulatory Surgery Data Submission Manual (296.0K PDF)

For data collected in 2008, to be submitted in 2009,  see the following submission manuals.  For submitting 2008  Ambulatory Surgery Data, please refer to the 2007 submission manual. 

Inpatient - flat file format

2008 Hospital Inpatient Discharge Data Submission Manual (431.0K PDF)

Inpatient - XML format

2008 Hospital Inpatient Discharge Data Submission Manual (XML Format) (370.0K PDF)

Hospital-Based Outpatient Surgery - flat file format

2008 Hospital Based Outpatient Surgery Data Submission Manual (445.0K PDF)

Hospital-Based Outpatient Surgery - XML format

2008 Hospital Based Outpatient Surgery Data Submission Manual (XML Format) (384.0K PDF)

Contact Information

Hospital and Hospital Outpatient Surgery
Lou Ann Sanders
Phone:  (405) 271.6225
E-Mail: louanns@health.ok.gov 

Free-Standing Ambulatory Surgery Centers
Mary Piscitello
Phone: (405) 271.6225
E-Mail: mary@health.ok.gov