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The Medicare Health Outcomes Survey (HOS) non-identifiable data files contain the majority of the survey items collected on the HOS instrument (excluding beneficiary identifying information), as well as selected additional administrative variables. The files are constructed to prevent the identification of any single beneficiary or Medicare health plan and only respondents to the survey are included in the files. All identifying information has been excluded from the files, and demographic categories have been aggregated such that identification of any given individual is not possible. The non-identifiable data files are available as public use files (PUFs) at no cost, with accompanying data user's guides, and may be downloaded directly from the HOS website (see the HOS data file and data user's guide links in Related Links Outside CMS below). Three distinct categories of non-identifiable PUFs have been generated: - Baseline PUFs contain the data collected during a given baseline survey administration.
- Follow Up PUFs contain the data collected during the follow up survey administration which occurs two years after the baseline survey administration.
- Analytic PUFs contain the merged baseline and follow up files as well as supplemental variables.
General information about the Medicare HOS Program is available from the HOS web section (see the link in Related Links Inside CMS below).
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