Description
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is seeking information from industry to support the future recompete of the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) requirement. The MCBS is a continuous, multi-purpose longitudinal survey that collects comprehensive information on beneficiaries' social and medical risk factors and their relationship to healthcare utilization and health outcomes. CMS is looking for solutions and services that can operate, modernize, and optimize CMS's hybrid cloud hosting environment, enabling secure, scalable, and cost-effective delivery of CMS mission systems while supporting emerging technologies and evolving federal cloud strategies.
Some key aspects of the MCBS include:
• The survey collects data directly from beneficiaries across all segments of Medicare
• The survey is designed to represent the full diversity of the Medicare population
• Data from the MCBS are used extensively across the Federal government and research community to inform evidence-based policymaking and regulatory analysis
• The survey provides data to hundreds of external researchers annually
• The MCBS conveys evolving to meet CMS's changing data needs and policy priorities while maintaining core content areas that enable longitudinal analysis and trend monitoring.