Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS): Data Documentation and Codebooks
Guidance for the public regarding availability of file documentation, codebooks, and data file descriptions for the MCBS data files.
Issued by: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Issue Date: September 08, 2020
This page contains the file documentation, codebooks, and data file descriptions for the MCBS data files. From 1991-2013 MCBS produced two files annually, Access to Care and Cost and Use. Beginning in 2015 the MCBS will produce the MCBS Survey File and an MCBS Cost Supplement File. Details about the survey files are contained in the documentation.
All terms with definitions are provided in alphabetical order in the MCBS LDS Glossary (PDF).
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