News for Immediate Release
April 23, 2026
Harrisburg – The Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4) released a new set of County-Level Utilization Reports today, displaying the total number of ambulatory/outpatient cases and inpatient hospitalizations for Pennsylvania residents in Q3 of 2025.
These County-Level Utilization Reports foster a data-driven approach to health care and are especially supportive to those who are charged with allocating resources effectively, and ensuring access to quality care is available to patients in Pennsylvania. Barry D. Buckingham, PHC4’s Executive Director, believes these quarterly County-Level Utilization Reports are among the timeliest datasets in the Commonwealth. “These reports are invaluable tools for local communities, health care professionals, and policymakers,” said Buckingham. He went on to state these reports include a variety of care settings, displaying data from acute care, long-term acute care, rehabilitation, psychiatric, and specialty hospitals, in addition to hospital outpatient departments and freestanding ambulatory surgery centers in Pennsylvania.
PHC4 invites all stakeholders to review these reports, available now at phc4.org. These timely reports are updated every quarter and show the number of cases for each county, with breakouts by patient age, sex, and payer. Recognizing this data is key in supporting research, business, and health care communities, PHC4 welcomes inquiries from interested parties regarding standard and custom data purchases to visit Purchase Customized Data – PHC4 or connect at .
PHC4 is an independent council formed under Pennsylvania statute (Act 89 of 1986, as amended by Act 15 of 2020) in order to address rapidly growing health care costs. PHC4 continues to produce comparative information about the most efficient and effective health care to individual consumers and group purchasers of health services. In addition, PHC4 produces information used to identify opportunities to contain costs and improve the quality of care delivered.
For more information, visit phc4.org, or review the reports here. Inquiries surrounding purchasing data from PHC4 are directed at our Special Requests Department; .
Media contact:
Barry D. Buckingham, Executive Director, PHC4
