Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey - Survey File
The Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) - Survey File Microdata Public Use File (PUF) dataset provides information on topics such as Medicare beneficiaries' access to care, health status, other information...
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 10
The newest version is the one linked above. Older releases stay on the official site.
- 2023-01-01posted Jan 8, 2026
- 2022-10-01posted Oct 31, 2024
- 2021-10-20posted Aug 30, 2024
- 2020-12-31posted Aug 30, 2024
- 2019-12-31posted Aug 30, 2024
- 2018-12-31posted Aug 30, 2024
- 2017-12-31posted Aug 30, 2024
- 2016-12-31posted Aug 30, 2024
Show 2 older versions
- 2015-12-01posted Aug 30, 2024
- 2013-12-01posted Aug 30, 2024
CMS's description
The Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) - Survey File Microdata Public Use File (PUF) dataset provides information on topics such as Medicare beneficiaries' access to care, health status, other information regarding beneficiaries’ knowledge of, attitudes toward, and satisfaction with their health care, as well as demographic data and information on all types of health insurance coverage.
Methodology and other documents from CMS:
The summary at the top is the first sentence of this description. Record id cms:cab71ec9-221c-4969-93dc-196d9f824689. This record as JSON.