Published By U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Issued about 9 years ago
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Description
The Medicare Health Outcomes Survey (HOS) limited data sets (LDS) are comprised of the entire national sample for a given 2-year cohort (including both respondents and non-respondents), and contain all of the HOS survey items. The HOS LDS files include Medicare health plan identifiers, as well as several additional variables describing plan characteristics. They also contain protected beneficiary-level health information such as date of birth, however, specific direct person identifiers (i.e. name and health insurance claim number) are not included in the LDS files.