Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey - Cost Supplement
The Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) - Cost Supplement File Microdata Public Use File (PUF) dataset provides information on expenditures and payment sources for all services used by Medicare beneficiaries,...
Freshness
- Last posted
- Period covered
- Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2023
- Update frequency
- Annually
Dates as CMS lists them in its catalog.
Columns
CMS does not publish a machine-readable column list for this dataset. Check the data dictionary linked above.
At a glance
- Catalog
- data.cms.gov
- Publisher
- Office of Enterprise Data and Analytics (OEDA)
- Columns
- 0
- State column
- None found
- Contact
- MCBS@cms.hhs.gov
Versions 6
The newest version is the one linked above. Older releases stay on the official site.
- 2023-01-01posted Mar 10, 2026
- 2022-01-07posted Feb 19, 2026
- 2021-02-12posted Aug 29, 2024
- 2020-04-28posted Aug 29, 2024
- 2019-12-31posted Aug 29, 2024
- 2018-12-31posted Aug 29, 2024
CMS's description
The Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) - Cost Supplement File Microdata Public Use File (PUF) dataset provides information on expenditures and payment sources for all services used by Medicare beneficiaries, including co-payments, deductibles, and non-covered services.
Methodology and other documents from CMS:
The summary at the top is the first sentence of this description. Record id cms:91ded8c4-7e64-42ff-a595-4a4eb55df910. This record as JSON.