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Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug Plan (MA & PDP) CAHPS® Survey Quality Assurance Protocols & Technical Specifications Version 11.0

The Quality Assurance Protocols & Technical Specifications for the Medicare Advantage & Prescription Drug Plan (MA & PDP) CAHPS® Survey was developed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to standardize the data collection process and to ensure that the survey data collected across survey vendors are comparable. The intended audience is MA & PDP contracts and survey vendors that administer the survey for MA & PDP contracts.

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Issued by: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)

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