CAHPS Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Survey Database

The Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Survey Database is a repository for survey results that have been voluntarily submitted by State Medicaid agencies and the managed care entities with which they contract. Its purpose is to help evaluate, compare, and improve the quality of services provided by both fee-for-service HCBS and managed long-term services and supports programs. This database became operational in early 2020; it is a joint project between the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Learn more about this database: Participating in the 2021 CAHPS Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS CAHPS) Survey Database: What You Need To Know (AHRQ-CMS webcast) (April 21, 2021)

Participating in the 2021 CAHPS Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS CAHPS) Survey Database: What You Need To Know (56:27)

How To Participate in the CAHPS HCBS Survey Database

Participation in the HCBS Survey Database is free and open to all users of this survey, provided the questionnaires are administered in a manner consistent with CAHPS guidance and survey data are submitted according to CAHPS specifications. Learn about participating in the HCBS Survey Database.

Submitters to the HCBS Survey Database will have access to a Private Feedback Report in Excel with their own results compared to aggregated data.