Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems

Surveys of Patient Experience

For more information about CAHPS®,
visit the CAHPS® Databases site.

Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS)

Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) FAST STATS

Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC)

Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Insurance Component (IC)

National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports (NHQDR)

Explore the CAHPS^® Data Tools

The CAHPS Databases are AHRQ’s repositories for data from selected CAHPS surveys of patient experience with care. The purpose of the CAHPS Databases is to facilitate comparisons of CAHPS survey results by and among survey users and researchers. The CAHPS Databases currently include data from the CAHPS Health Plan Survey and the CAHPS Clinician & Group Survey.

CAHPS® Health Plan Survey Database

The CAHPS Health Plan Survey Database contains results for the Medicaid Survey submitted by various sponsors, including public employers, State Medicaid agencies, State Children's Health Insurance Programs (CHIP), and individual health plans, as well as Medicare Survey results provided by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. This database has been operational since 1998.
CAHPS® Clinician & Group Survey Database

The CAHPS Clinician & Group Survey (CG-CAHPS) Database contains results for multiple versions of the survey submitted by various sponsors, including practice sites, medical groups, and regional health collaboratives. It has been operational since 2010.

Review Chartbooks dating back to 2013

The CAHPS Health Plan Aggregated Database provides access to results for the 3 years of CAHPS Health Plan Survey data.

Results were compiled from various sources and submitted to the CAHPS Database for the CAHPS Health Plan Survey. For more information, read the 'How Results are Calculated section in the 2021 CAHPS Health Plan Survey Chartbook (Appendix G).

Medicaid Data: The 5.0/5.1 survey results for the Medicaid sector were obtained from data submitted directly to the CAHPS Database by State Medicaid agencies and individual health plans. The 2021 database consists of submissions from 44 states, of which a total of 23 Medicaid State Agencies submitted data, compared to 40 states, 20 of which were State Medicaid agencies in 2020. The 2021 Medicaid results are based on survey data collected from July 2020 through July 2021.

Medicare Data: In 2021, the CAHPS Medicare Managed Care results were obtained from CMS for survey participants who were enrolled in a managed care health plan including both enrollees receiving prescription drug coverage through their health plan and those that don’t receive prescription drug coverage through their health plan. Please note that the Medicare results presented here may differ from other reports due to the inclusion or exclusion of certain beneficiary groups and/or the use of case-mix adjustment variables. The survey data were collected from March through May 2021. In 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) did not collect Medicare data due to the COVID-19 pandemic and therefore, results are not presented.