Provider Data Catalog

Outpatient and Ambulatory Surgery Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (OAS CAHPS) survey for ambulatory surgical centers - National

The file contains the national average for the OAS CAHPS survey responses.

Freshness

Last posted
Period covered
Update frequency

Dates as CMS lists them in its catalog. CMS last changed the data itself on Jul 22, 2026.

Columns 21

The Provider Data Catalog lists only column headers in machine-readable form. Full definitions are in the data dictionary.

ColumnWhat it meansType
Patients who reported that staff definitely gave care in a professional way and the facility was cleanpatients_who_reported_that_staff_definitely_gave_care_in_a__2c9ftext
Patients who reported that staff somewhat gave care in a professional way or the facility was somewhat cleanpatients_who_reported_that_staff_somewhat_gave_care_in_a_pr_1fa8text
Patients who reported that staff did not give care in a professional way or the facility was not cleanpatients_who_reported_that_staff_did_not_give_care_in_a_pro_9b71text
Facilities and staff linear mean scorefacilities_and_staff_linear_mean_scoretext
Patients who reported that staff definitely communicated about what to expect during and after the procedurepatients_who_reported_that_staff_definitely_communicated_ab_5eaatext
Patients who reported that staff somewhat communicated about what to expect during and after the procedurepatients_who_reported_that_staff_somewhat_communicated_abou_eae8text
Patients who reported that staff did not communicate about what to expect during and after the procedurepatients_who_reported_that_staff_did_not_communicate_about__f071text
Communication about your procedure linear mean scorecommunication_about_your_procedure_linear_mean_scoretext
Patients who gave the facility a rating of 9 or 10 on a scale from 0 (lowest) to 10 (highest)patients_who_gave_the_facility_a_rating_of_9_or_10_on_a_sca_e274text
Patients who gave the facility a rating of 7 or 8 on a scale from 0 (lowest) to 10 (highest)patients_who_gave_the_facility_a_rating_of_7_or_8_on_a_scal_cb89text
Patients who gave the facility a rating of 0 to 6 on a scale from 0 (lowest) to 10 (highest)patients_who_gave_the_facility_a_rating_of_0_to_6_on_a_scal_5c23text
Patients' rating of the facility linear mean scorepatients_rating_of_the_facility_linear_mean_scoretext
Patients who reported YES they would DEFINITELY recommend the facility to family or friendspatients_who_reported_yes_they_would_definitely_recommend_t_2ec6text
Patients who reported PROBABLY YES they would recommend the facility to family or friendspatients_who_reported_probably_yes_they_would_recommend_the_747dtext
Patients who reported NO, they would not recommend the facility to family or friendspatients_who_reported_no_they_would_not_recommend_the_facil_6d96text
Patients recommending the facility linear mean scorepatients_recommending_the_facility_linear_mean_scoretext
Number of Sampled Patientsnumber_of_sampled_patientstext
Number of Completed Surveysnumber_of_completed_surveystext
Survey Response Rate Percentsurvey_response_rate_percenttext
Start Datestart_datetext
End Dateend_datetext

At a glance

Catalog
Provider Data Catalog
Publisher
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Rows
1
Columns
21
State column
None found
Topics
Quality and ratings, Other facilities and suppliers, Hospitals

API

Free, no key needed. This request returns the first 10 rows as JSON:

https://data.cms.gov/provider-data/api/1/datastore/query/tf3h-mrrs/0?limit=10

CMS's description

The file contains the national average for the OAS CAHPS survey responses. The OAS CAHPS survey collects information about patients' experiences of care in hospital outpatient departments (HOPDs) and ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs). The data are updated and reported each quarter with data from the most recently completed quarter replacing the oldest quarter of data.

The summary at the top is the first sentence of this description. Record id pdc:tf3h-mrrs. This record as JSON.

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