As the FAIR Health Data Repository Expands, Research Based on the Data Grows
December 16, 2025
As the FAIR Health data repository expands and is enriched with new data elements and contributors, research based on the data grows. In 2025, through our own data studies and through use of our data and reports by external researchers, insights based on our data continued to multiply.
In 2025, FAIR Health’s commercial healthcare claims repository surpassed 54 billion claim records, spanning the period from 2002 to the present. Already the nation’s largest repository of commercial healthcare claims, the database is growing at a rate of about four billion claim records a year. Separately, our repository of traditional Medicare data, which we receive as a certified national Qualified Entity from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, surpassed 53 billion claim records from 2013 to the present.
Drawing on our data repository this year, FAIR Health issued studies on such topics as obesity and GLP-1 drugs and shared decision making, among others. We continued and redesigned our Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker and updated our Opioid Tracker and Cost of Giving Birth Tracker. We released the latest annual edition of our FH® Healthcare Indicators and FH® Medical Price Index. For more details, see the summary of this year’s FAIR Health Research in this issue.
As part of our continuing mission to advance health systems research, FAIR Health makes aggregated, de-identified data available to support other researchers in their targeted studies. In addition, many researchers cite our data studies to inform their own publications. Media outlets also cite and regularly report on FAIR Health studies or incorporate FAIR Health data in their stories. For more details, see the summary of this year’s External Research in this issue.
For more information on using FAIR Health data and analytics for research, contact us by email at info@fairhealth.org or call us at 855-301-FAIR (3247), Monday through Friday, 9 am to 6 pm ET.