Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS)

The Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) is a comprehensive, longitudinal survey of Medicare beneficiaries conducted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in partnership with NORC at the University of Chicago. It contains detailed information on beneficiaries’ demographics, health status, healthcare utilization, and outcomes, including social and medical risk factors. The datasets can be linked with Medicare enrollment data and claims, and provide information to evaluate effectiveness of health care policy and policy interventions. This dataset is restricted-use due to the inclusion of sensitive and identifiable health information. As such, the data files themselves cannot be shared via this Dataverse entry. Students, post-docs, and researchers conducting NSAPH-related research in collaboration with PIs at Harvard or affiliated institutions may gain access to the data, provided have submitted a project initiation form, are listed on an approved IRB protocol, and have completed all required data security trainings. No data files are included in this entry, and the data has not been processed in any way. This entry serves as a reference to the original raw data received from CMS and includes only supporting materials such as a README file, and other relevant documentation, codebooks and tutorials from the CMS website to assist authorized users in understanding the structure and content of the MCBS restricted-use files. The README includes: Structure and content of the MCBS data files References to supporting documentation