CMS has announced two important changes to the data request and access policies for researchers. As part of the implementation of these policy changes, CMS has posted an informal Request for Information (RFI) seeking comments from stakeholders. The RFI will be open for comments until 5/15/2024. Read the full announcement about CMS’ policy changes and to access the RFI.
The Chronic Conditions Warehouse (CCW) Virtual Research Data Center (VRDC) is an alternative solution for accessing and analyzing CMS data for research purposes. To learn more about getting data for your research, refer to the About the VRDC and Requesting Access page, view the CCW VRDC FAQs and visit the ResDAC website.
View the Chronic Conditions Warehouse informational video to learn how you can access, analyze and aggregate all the data you need…like never before.
CMS receives numerous requests for data which are used to develop aggregated statistics, charts and graphs. The CCW’s Medicare Web Tables and Web Charts have been updated and are now available with data for years 2012-2021.
As a research database, CCW users are generally expected to pay fees to access and use data. Costs vary depending on beneficiary cohort size, years of data and files ordered. In preparation for submitting a data request, a cost estimation tool allows users to create an estimated cohort size and determine an estimated cost before moving to the next level in the data request process.
Welcome to the Chronic Conditions Data Warehouse
The CMS Chronic Conditions Data Warehouse (CCW) provides researchers with Medicare and Medicaid beneficiary, claims, and assessment data linked by beneficiary across the continuum of care. In the past, researchers analyzing data files were required to perform extensive analysis related to beneficiary matching, deduplication, and merging of the files in preparation for their study analysis. With the CCW data, this preliminary linkage work is already accomplished and delivered as part of the data files sent to researchers.
The Chronic Conditions Data Warehouse (CCW) is a research database designed to make Medicare, Medicaid, Assessments, Part C, and Part D Prescription Drug Event data more readily available to support research designed to improve the quality of care and reduce costs and utilization.