Who really owns this service?
Every hospital executive thinks they know their market, but the volume tells the real story. Public records show how many of each procedure every hospital performs, along with where each hospital sits. Pull them together and you can build market share, which hospital does the most heart or cancer care in a region, and watch that share move year over year. No expensive subscription required.
Volume and place need stitching.
The records show how many of each procedure a hospital performed, for both inpatient stays and outpatient visits, but each is just a national list of hospitals and counts. The location of each hospital is in there too, yet turning raw volume into market share means grouping hospitals by region, adding up each service, and working out each hospital's slice of the local total, across records that aren't arranged for it.
Do that stitching once and you have something usually locked behind a five-figure market-intelligence subscription: market share for any service, region by region, built straight from public records. You can see who leads a market for a procedure, how crowded that market is, and, by comparing across years, whether the leader is gaining ground or losing it. For strategy, recruiting, and partnership decisions, that's the map everyone wants and almost nobody builds from the original source.
Questions you can finally ask.
Each is a question you simply ask and get an answer to, not a three-week analysis project.
Who leads a service in a market?
Rank hospitals by how much of a given procedure they do in a region to see the real leader, not the assumed one.
How crowded is a local market?
See how much of a service sits with the top one or two hospitals in a region.
Is a hospital gaining or losing share?
Compare a hospital's slice of regional volume across years to see whether it's growing or eroding.
Where are the contested markets?
Find regions where no single hospital dominates a service, the ones genuinely in play.
How does share differ for stays versus visits?
Compare a hospital's standing for inpatient stays and outpatient visits in the same service, which can differ.
Where is a system underweight?
Spot the regions where a system does a procedure but holds little of the local share, the places to grow.
What the answer pulls together.
How many stays each hospital handles
How many of each procedure a hospital performs for admitted patients, the volume behind the inpatient side of share.
How many visits each hospital handles
How many outpatient services a hospital performs, extending the picture beyond admissions to day-to-day care.
Where each hospital is
The location of each hospital, so volume can be grouped into regional totals and turned into share.
Market-share intelligence usually comes from a vendor with a five-figure invoice. For this volume, the inputs are already public, you just have to stitch them together. So I did.
What people ask about this.
Is this every patient, or just Medicare?
It reflects the Medicare volume that's published hospital by hospital, which is the most consistent national basis for building share. For services with a lot of older patients it tracks the overall market closely, and even where it doesn't, it's a reliable, comparable view that needs no expensive private feed to build.
How do you decide what counts as a market?
However the question needs. Because each hospital's location travels with its volume, you can group share at whatever level fits, a metro, a state, a custom area you draw, and recompute on demand. There's no single fixed definition baked in, which is the whole point of holding the volume and the locations together.
How current is the answer?
It stays current on its own. When new information is published, it's already in there, so you're asking against today's picture, not a year-old extract.
Map your market
from the source.
Whether you run hospital strategy, recruiting, or partnerships, I can get you the exact market-share answer you care about.